What Is Poetry? (Ii)

What is poetry? It is a difficult question To answer. How to say it? Poetry is poetry. The poetry of life, The poetry of heart, Soul, The poetry of the world And humanity. What is poetry? Poetry is art and idea, Thought and image, Reflection, Poetry poetry. Poetry is feeling, Emotion, The emotion of the heart, The feeling of it, Poetry poetry. Poetry is a thing sensitive And sensuous And sentimental, Poetry lyrical, Musical. Without being sensitive, One cannot be a poet, Without being Sensuous and sentimental, Emotional and full of feeling. To be a poet is to be a lover Of flowers, birds and beasts, Man and life And Nature, Of humanity. To be a poet is to be a A romantic Dreamy and colourful, A realist Bare and naked. A metaphysician Or a transcendentalist Or a mythist Or a symbolist Or an individualist.