From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1684">Blessed23</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2017<P>

Echolocation - I completely agree with your friend.  The allure of poetry for me has long been that someone else has felt what I have felt (and often expressed it better than I could ever dream of doing) and the comfort which that realization brings.  It's an expression of our common humanity, evidence that we are all more similar than we realize.  I have grown to love poetry for myriad other reasons, but that has always been my primary reason for loving it.
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