Tell me, what is poetry?
I don’t know
or maybe I do, but don’t understand.
I’ve been writing for three years,
thinking it was all about rhyme,
about making words flow
fast or slow.
But I’ve read enough now
to know it doesn’t have to be that way.
So how do I write?
What should I write?
I want someone to read,
someone to like it.
But is that what it’s all about?
Once, in tears, I wrote a poem—
and it was better than the rest.
Was it the feeling,
the raw emotion,
that gave it life
it never had before.
Maybe poetry
is just the sound of my soul
asking to be heard—
with questions
we can’t stop asking.
So what do you think poetry really is ?