Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantation effects.
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Monday, 9 February 2015
"Breathing You In" by David Gregory
From up here it looked
as if the harbour’s lungs inhaled
the fog in through the headlands;
light as breathing, concrete coloured,
it set in for the day, giving us each a
bubble vision
containing what little we know,
and out beyond the garden’s edge;
all life arrested.
There was a fog of the familiar
such that I could not see
all of the changes underway
between you and me.
But
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