Just go ahead and write a poem out of whatever idea of poetry you already have.

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"The challenge was to write a poem about a family that has become an alternative institution without it sounding too worthy, " he added.

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They will then write a poem inspired by the experience.

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And it is because he understood that people live each day within a variety of value systems that he could write a great poem about how two people could allow appetite, seemingly rational argument and love to lead them to disobey a divine command.

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Many Arab poets write about the violence in the Middle East - there's a famous poem "Lament for the June sun" which described the Arab defeat in the Six Day War of 1967 where the poet Al-Bayyati berates the leaders of the Arab world.

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