Comments on: What is Poetry?: Helping You Define Poetry for Yourself https://writers.com/what-is-poetry Your voice is a gift. Share it. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Wednesday Wonderings #41 – Dec 11, 2024 – Poetry 101 (Part 2 – Metaphors & Similes) – Laura Daniels, Writer https://writers.com/what-is-poetry#comment-136294 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:28:49 +0000 https://writers.com/?p=22149#comment-136294 […] shared these quotes about poetry to move, inspire, and challenge before we […]

]]> By: Asad https://writers.com/what-is-poetry#comment-119445 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:37:45 +0000 https://writers.com/?p=22149#comment-119445 Thank you so much for picking this topic. This is a comprehensive article that covers poetry from all angles. I really appreciate your writing skills.

]]> By: David Schaff https://writers.com/what-is-poetry#comment-118807 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:15:38 +0000 https://writers.com/?p=22149#comment-118807 Adverbs

I love certain words, some uncertain ones
I invite to birthdays, dinners at my home.
They always behave in declarative tense.
Their old host, I adore them. Verbs are
Good company, moderate in consumption,
Table manners like those of Emily Post.

Why am I lying like this? They make fun
Of me. At times I do not understand them.
It should be impossible for adverbs to lift
A full bottle of Pinot Noir, just as bees
Bumbling about defy the laws of physics.
Yet the old Beaune is gone. No matter

My thirst I could not find it. Or them. Cats
Snore softly. I have anniversaries to keep.

]]> By: joanne rowley https://writers.com/what-is-poetry#comment-118659 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:11:51 +0000 https://writers.com/?p=22149#comment-118659 So helpful! Lots to think on. I want, and try to, tell stories of historical interest like Ted Kooser’s poem about the Black Hawk massacre. A beautiful poem that got the history right. I think I’m more of a storyteller who wants to be a poet?

]]> By: Ronald Harvey Wohl https://writers.com/what-is-poetry#comment-118629 Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:24:12 +0000 https://writers.com/?p=22149#comment-118629 Poetry
An idea conceived in the brain,
Massaged in the mind
Filtered through the heart
Released through the fingers.

Poetry
Viewed by the eyes
Heard by the ears
Interpreted in the brain
Passionately playing on the strings of the heart.

(C) Ronald Harvey Wohl 2024

]]> By: Sean Glatch https://writers.com/what-is-poetry#comment-118624 Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:46:22 +0000 https://writers.com/?p=22149#comment-118624 In reply to Beverly George.

My pleasure, Beverly!

]]> By: Beverly George https://writers.com/what-is-poetry#comment-118623 Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:45:10 +0000 https://writers.com/?p=22149#comment-118623 Thank you so much. This is comprehensive on so many dimensions. So needed and so appreciated.

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