Why Do I Write Poetry?

This is why I write.

Words descend from my soul,
reverberate through my brain
until I inscribe them
in black letters on a white page.

Line and stanza,
metaphor and simile,
rhythm and rhyme flow--
like waves of light--
from dendrite to the soma
and along the axon
to the dendrite1
of the next synapse.

It is the duality
of my human nature--
both matter and spirit
working in conjunction--
that helps me create poetry
and causes me
to write.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

Line Count: 19
Form: Free style with some end rhyme.
Prompt: WHAT DOES POETRY MEAN TO YOU-why do you write poetry?
Written for "DWG Poet Know it, Show it MOVED TO FORUM"  December 2021.

Footnotes
1  https://biologydictionary.net/dendrite/