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Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry

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Poetry is like an imaginative story that tries to explain beautiful and mysterious things, such as the creation and disappearance of rainbows. It captures feelings and ideas that are hard to describe with straightforward facts or scientific explanations.

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