You Are Poetry by Emma-Jane Barlow | One Poem Only
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You Are Poetry
Emma-Jane Barlow
I hope you know that you are poetry.
Everything you do is art
and you don't even know it.
The way your eyes glisten
and your whole face beams
with light when you're happy.
The way you sink into the sofa
and hum a little to yourself at
the end of a hard day.
The way you hold the door
open for a stranger and smile,
or the way you speak to animals
when you seem them pass by.
The way you see gift giving
as the most precious way
to know someone…
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