What is poetry exactly?

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE love love love love poetry! :) It feels SO amazing to express how I feel freely without being judged.

What is poetry exactly?

Do you really and truly know?

It is not where you rhyme fancy words

But instead watch your expression grow.

Poetry IS a form of art, to some it takes time to form, others it just naturally

flows out of their system like it's first nature for us to breathe

In the deep, cool, beautiful, clean, crisp air. 

So for those of you who try to amuse us 

what that you call poetry, I laugh at you

For poetry is not all about showing pain, love, hate, anger,

It's about expressing all feelings, whether they be separate

or all at once. 

Poetry is to not to be defined, labeled or tacked down

It's just a bunch of free-flowing emotions that end up

turning into words that you feel as if you have to express

by writing them down on a piece of paper. 

Poetry is your feelings, poetry is your eyes, your hair

your beautiful lips, your beautiful skin, your entire essence

Poetry is YOU! You are the poetry that dwells inside your own self. 

So what is poetry exactly you ask? Poetry is what you make of it.

Let it have no certain definition, but instead just know 

that to be a true poet you have to live through yourself and no one else

Because you ARE the writer, you are the poetry and you ARE truly a poet 

and nothing less than that is what you are. 

Reviews

[Jordan's Back]

My poetry is an expression of my soul. Sometimes its Dark, Other times Its Romantic. and Also it can be quite seductive or angry. Yes It always tells a Story. Wonderful Write

[Josh121]

EXACTLY!!! I try to write poetry myself and end up just telling a story. Great job keep up the good work :)

[Distant horizons]

Very well said, and well written. poetry is something different to everyone. the writer, the reader also may take different things from it and it should never be pigeon-holed into one meaning. great expressive write.