A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.