January talking meme: why poetry means so much

Enjoyable problems to have: between adding more threads, replying to threads, and trying to keep the list of threads remotely up to date, I am sort of drowning in love meme. YOU GUYS ROCK.

But! I am still attempting to catch up on the January talking meme, writcraft wanted me to talk about poetry and why it means so much.

Now, I think ultimately I’m a prose girl, but it’s true there are poems and lines of poetry that mean so fucking much to me, that can make me breathless. This reasoning I think is maybe very idiosyncratic? But to me, ( poetry means so much because )