What is this thing called poetry? <br />Is it depictions... <br />Of vignettes connected. <br />Bridged between something said profound. <br />Recited as a sonnet... <br />With emotions sat upon it. <br />Exciting enough to be passed around? <br /> <br />Many try to describe poetry, <br />With an intellect approach... <br />Hoping to dull <br />Diverse interpretations, <br />With meters, tempo, rhyme <br />And lines counted! <br />Learned by rote and blurted. <br />Regurgitated from memory! <br /> <br />Can true poetry be defined without rhyme? <br />Can thoughts unconnected but colorized, <br />And flavored to moisten <br />Be the choice... <br />Of those who prefer their poetry moist? <br />Even though uncomprehending, <br />The meaning or intention of clues planted. <br />Seeded by the writer <br />Delighted to tease with mystery, sex <br />Or emotional pain aimed at the reader! <br /> <br />Can true poetry be defined, <br />As heartfelt expressions <br />Written to describe what then <br />Is in one's mind. <br /> <br />And who is to say there is a correct way <br />To reveal what one has to say with or without rhyme. <br />When those times come to pour a flow <br />That arrives and awaits the rush. <br />And thrusting that wish to be expressed as is! <br /> <br />What is this? <br />That has to find, <br />Poetic lines. <br />Requested or not! <br />When all it wants to do, <br />Is be delivered for what it is! <br />Searching for an accepted way... <br />In a style one owns, <br />Like none other conveys... <br />And lifted from descriptive restrictions, <br />To expand the demands of understanding!<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lifted-from-descriptive-restrictions/
