What does Poetry mean to you?

To me..poetry are thoughts written in paper compose to strike the mind of the reader as well it is also an art. its life and it helps us, me alot to let throught of my emotions

To much to explain.

To me it means you just take what ever it is that is in your head and let the words form the poem.

I started writing poetry during the darkest time of my life; when I was ready to implode. I wasn't good at it but I did have a natural talent of finding some beauty in thoughts that were so dark and lifeless. I quickly found that it had some theraputic value and continued with it just as that...therapy. I never thought for a second I'd be any good at it but it was helping me so I kept it up. Eventually, the fog cleared and I was even better able to concentrate on those things and feeling I found were so beautiful within me. I just knew I had to share those things with others and I developed a way and style that came to reflect some measure of that.

It's up to book sales and others in places like this now but the therapy goes on and is so rewarding.

Poetry to me are the doorways into a persons soul. Poetry is a release mechanism. Poetry is human emotion at its purest. Poetry is your best friend, you can depend on poetry, poetry is always there for you when you need it. Poetry is in your blood, metaphorically speaking. Poetry to me ... is a way of life.

I think for me personally, it is expressing yourself in pure emotion through words on paper. Hm... does that make sense? I guess what I mean is just being able to put your emotions and thoughts into words. Poetry is basically my therapist. I think I'd be insane if I couldn't write, because it's the only way I can truly get all these emotions from my mind and heart onto a piece of paper and really understand what it means.

Poetry means,,,,,MY LIFE

Poetry to me, is a way for me to express myself, and when i read other peoples poems, its like looking into there soul, its just a way to decribe yourself, or what your feeling, or describ your life

It means everything to me!

I could talk to people with the same problems.. And it makes me free. It´s really good for people who never shows their feelings in the oudside of the world.

Poetry means everything to me
It is a beautiful thing

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Poetry is the uncensored expression of feeling by an intellectual and emotional mind, heart and soul.

Its my escape

Poetry to me?

.. A Whole New World ..

Year 12 is hard ;[ And I travel here for relief and expression of anger, stress, love, confusion, happiness, depression, and even just to express a thought I have in my head.

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Poetry: A bombshell expressed in a nutshell.

I wrote a poem !
One Word
by Patrick Murphy

Respect
Diminished
Regret
Replenished
Realized
Forgotten
Regained
Abandoned
Loved
Mistreated
Poetry
I'm Reading.

So yea, this is poetry. *edited text cuz i was like high on life or somthing*

Poetry to me is a way of relaxing.. brings a feeling of relief... it makes me happy to think that i have done something creative...

Poetry is a relif, beutiful words and a imagine of the writers emotions

A release, and an outlet that alows you to be completly honest

To me..Poetry is a feeling of your thoughts, they are your emotions written in words, It lets out everything you have kept inside and lets you express yourself, I also believe that it tells about who you are and what your experiences in life have been. ^-^

Poetry is putting your emotions, ideas and experiences in beautiful form to express ourselves to others.. Poems are like puzzles.. they don't give you all the details...they reveal something and we should step in someone's shoes to fill in the missing pieces of puzzles..

Poetry is the language of our soul, art of our hearts, production of our imaginations, recorded dreams of our mind...

Poetry is the way to explain what you alone could not, its the tool to release any issue stuck in your head

Poetry is a way to express my feelings when I don't know how to tell others. It is a way for someone to look into my soul and see the real me. My poetry can explain things better than even I can.

Poetry to me means that you have a way to express your self in a safe way and you make art work.=)

Poetry is an art of expressing my thoughts, emotions, and/or experiences in life in a form of writing.

I agree, Poetry is a form of art and as I have said in another Topic very similuar to this, Art is not what we see but what we make others see.

Poetry is my excape from life. Heck, Poetry IS life for me. I enjoy it so much and anytime i'm sad about something, I wont be sad about it for too loong because I can just write. And it automatically relives all my pain. I LOVE poetry

Life is poetry, and some people naturally choose to write it down.

Poetry means so much to me that i can only express the way i feel about it by writing it in poetry.

I agree that one isn't born spouting good poetry, though you could fool me, with the almost global cacophany that gets touted as poetry in 'spoken word' venues. As in any art form, there is a component of talent, and a component of acquired skill. It's as simple as that. There are examples of incredible poets who are very young like Arthur Rimbaud, John Keats... who were writing superior works at a tender age - like Mozart

I don't want to sound cheesy but poetry is my way out. when things get too hard for me i sit and write, and whatever sounds good stays, and if its bad i'll save it for impovement later.

I dont use it as a way out, i usually go on walks etc to do that. BUT i do use poetry to record my emotions/feeelings/experiences through certain periods. It's more of a creative diary then anything else.

This is a quote. You didn't use quotation marks, so you're selling their words as your own. This is Copywrite.

It can mean almost nothing and it can be more than everything. Strange creature, poetry is.