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Writing a Poem Can Freeze Time

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How Writing Poetry Can Freeze Time

The act of writing a poem stills time—freezing the action, emotion, meaning of a moment.

That’s why I do it. When I have this insatiable desire, this want to write something, something not written down as a paragraph in a piece somewhere, but rather as a poem.

Updated September 18, 2025 at 13:49. Thoughts? Email me.
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