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Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Every now and then, I get invited to write a foreword for a manuscript for publication. This time it was for a poetry anthology. I willingly obliged as I have always regarded poets and poetry as mankind’s lifeline in times of war and peace. In this piece, I raised the question, “Can we ever imagine a world without poets and poetry? I answered my own query with a “No, I can’t,” and I am sure, neither can you. For without poetry, we will have no reason to exist. I am a “closet poet.” I had written dozens of poems earlier in life but except for three or four, they are still in my files, yellowed with age. I did follow several poets in my early twenties and in fact, had joined David Cortez Medalla’s poetry sessions on A. Mabini during the early fifties. That was the time when as a high school teacher, I dabbled in theater (acting and directing), for both stage and television, took art lessons with Manuel Rodriguez Sr. for s ....