What is Poetry?

[sindrojacques1]

This is very well painted

[sindrojacques1]

this very well painted.

[jmccartney88]

soooooooooooo gay

[GemHudson]

Nice

[dafreedomfita]

Can a blind, death mute, who cannot write create poetry?

[alvarock68]

dans le sac

[KatiesTeachings]

What is poetry? Is the answer hidden somewhere? Is it one of those answers locked in a box and nobody has the key? There are such questions and answers. Oh I read things as a boy that had mystery of sound and rhythm Oh I read things as a boy that had mystery of sound and rhythm Walt Whitman, Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters Hard to say how I moved into what I wrote that I termed poetry but theres still argument about whether it is poetry or not

[KatiesTeachings]

Chicago Poet

I saluted a nobody.

I saw him in a looking glass.

He smiled  so did I.

He crumpled the skin on his forehead,

frowning so did I.

Everything I did he did.

I said, Hello- I know you.

And I was a liar to say so.

[KatiesTeachings]

Compete Poems by Carol Sandburg

Little girl, be careful what you say

when you make talk with words, words—

Freedom and that other word responsibility

you cant have and not the other

for words are made of syllables

and syllables, child, are made of air—

and air is so thin—air is the breath of God—

[KatiesTeachings]

Night Bells

Two bellssix bellstwo bellssix bells

On a blue pavilion

Out across a smooth blue pavilion

And between each bell

One clear cryof a woman

Lord God you made the night too long too long.

It was something like this in the heart of the philosopher, who declared

What can be explained is not poetry

What can be explained is not poetry

[KatiesTeachings]

What is poetry? Is the answer hidden somewhere? Is it one of those answers locked in a box and nobody has the key? There are such questions and answers. Oh I read things as a boy that had mystery of sound and rhythm Oh I read things as a boy that had mystery of sound and rhythm Walt Whitman Edward Arlington Robinson Robert Frost Vachel Lindsay Edgar Lee Masters Hard to say how I moved into what I wrote that I termed poetry but theres still argument about whether it is poetry or not

[Scarrzz]

Thank you for that.

It is a poetic framework within which lies the essence of it's own meaning.

I would have answered that poetry is a collection of words and meanings that are woven together so as to pour out a subjective meaning or feeling which can then, hopefully, be felt by another soul.

Rather than telling us what poetry is, you showed us.

[crgr33]

I like listening to Carl Sandburg read his poems and I like what you did with them.