What poetry is...

Hello fellow readers 

I don't want to be your preacher

But I'm here to speak of poetry 

And all that it can be 

You would think I would give you rules and regulations 

But with poetry there is no segregation 

The nouns dance with adjectives and completely engulf the verbs 

Because all in all they are all just words 

Like paint colors you mix and blend together 

To stay on the page like rhyming brethren 

Having each vowel and syllable play out a note 

Allowing your diction and rhythm  to emote 

Because you thought I would give you a list of don'ts 

A big deep encumbering moat

Of rules of sound, diction, style and punctuation 

But it's really up to your manipulation 

To dress the letters while addressing the sounds 

And soon enough your writing will bound

To leap from ear to ear of the person sitting across from you 

Or even just sticking on the page smiling up at you 

Because poetry is free form personality 

A visual and lyrical sense of reality 

To express to others how you see and interpret the world 

Or a self respecting dumping of all the absurd 

Because poetry had no rules no cuts and no standards 

Only written with questions never meant to be answers 

For poetry is a different representation of who you are and how you feel 

For sometimes only the words are meant for you to interpret as real