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P is for 'poetry'

Most sensitive souls love poetry as do I. I’m not trained in poetry, but my former colleague from Ogilvy had studied poetry in the US and graduated in the subject. There was a time when poems had a rigid structure, but over the decades, they have become more free-flowing and convey a spontaneous outpouring of emotions. Today, insta poets, such as Rupi Kaur and Lang Leav have a huge following. I’ve read Rupi Kaur’s ‘The sun and its flowers’ and ‘Milk and Honey’. I’ve also read Lang Leav’s ‘The Universe of Us’. I enjoyed them in parts. A friend of mine loves Mary Oliver’s poems. I own and have read Mary Oliver’s ‘A poetry handbook,’ which is a slim volume that explains basic terms in poetry. I’ve also read Sharanya Manivannan’s ‘The altar of an only world.’ I enjoyed the book for its rich imagery, creative use of vocabulary, and sheer sense of poetry it conveyed. I’ve enjoyed Rilke’s poetry in 2014. ‘The Essential Rumi’ with a translation by Coleman Barks was another book on po...