Why We Write

Contributor: Jane Briganti

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We sit, we type
some might even say
we writers sometimes write

Observation,
contemplation
about the world we share
often daunting and painful
it is what writers bare

Our words - albeit true
are not always dark and bleak
we writers sometimes write
of love and the hope we seek

Why we write
perhaps we are not sure
for a poets heart
is nothing less than pure


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A Native New Yorker, her poetry expresses her thoughts about life, love, nature and human emotion.