20 Poets (and one comedian) on the Awesome Power of Poetry

PS: Not all roses are red, not all violets are blue

Mitch Ditkoff
3 min readNov 17, 2022

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Photo: Radu Florin, Unsplash

If you are like most human beings, chances are good that your introduction to poetry was totally lame — an unholy cocktail of roses are red, violets are blue, bad limericks, and trying to figure out what the big deal was about iambic pentameter.

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Mitch Ditkoff

Co-Founder of Idea Champions, Face The Music & Sage Catalysts. Author of Storytelling for the Revolution, Storytelling at Work, Unspoken Word and Free the Genie