Emmanuela Onyilofor - The Craft

The poet’s craft;
to capture the essence of a thing,
and cram it into sparing words.
even truer so, is the poet’s fate…
to burn with such intense, inescapable feeling,
that to put pen to paper is his only option.

baring this to all the world is the art.

Emmanuela Onyilofor

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