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# Primary Purpose
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/primary-purpose/
- Published: 2022-08-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: a great poem generates a need to be remembered
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

a great poem generates a need to be remembered

a desire to make others read it out loud too  
and revel in the clever word choices it makes

choices that appear as immutable as the notes  
in a Mozart symphony, though the author  
may have penciled and erased them dozens of times.

all else:

whether it shows or tells some larger truth  
or celebrates the seasons of love  
or counts thing one and thing two...

all else is secondary

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2813591-What-is-the-one-thing-that-makes-a-poem-wor