Why you should write a poem

It is a classic choice of benefit versus liability.

Benefits;
Improve one’s writing skills,
Practice thinking out side of the box,
Develop the ability to express thoughts with focused intensity,
The chance to purge bad habits,
To learn from new mistakes,
Pride in a difficult accomplishment,
To entertain, delight, amuse,
To grow as a person in no other way,
To communicate in the most open of manner,
To enhance the forward looking in your personality,
To appreciate unique word structures,
Your mother will be proud.

Liabilities:
They are hard to store.
There are better poets,
There are few readers,
They are too personal,
They can be resent to any one.

Come to think of it the liabilities are no greater than text messaging with a cell phone. The benefits are not limited to modernity. So writing a poem is only a good thing!

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