Poetry is what you think it is. word put into lines that have varies metaphors. Where they talk about feeling colors, how this puzzle doesn't fit. Do they truly know what puzzles donβt fit? Can you fit several pieces of one puzzle in a few other puzzles? Using metaphors, so the reader better understands what they are talking about. But you can interpret what you donβt know? Can you understand without the know perspective of the poet? You can break a poem down but will you get what they are trying to tell you?
Poetry is among all words being used in different ways. They way you shape your poem, so it's appealing to the eye. They way your poem flows. The way you want you reader to understand your poem these are the thing you must understand what writing a poem.
Keeping these in mind might be beneficial to the people reading them. Keeping this intelligence is what you need.