What do you think is the definition of poetry?

Renay Billiar: Poetry to me is an expression of one's feeling or thoughts... its as simple as that.

Toby Caswell: In most types of language, the meaning is important - but the words don't matter."Straight ahead, across the roundabout, then the third on your left"."Drive through the traffic lights, take the second exit from the roundabout, then turn left down Ashburnham Road."Both of those are normal language statements, and both mean exactly the same thing.We call something 'poetry' when the words start to matter; when there isn't another way of saying the same thing:"I never lost so much but twice,And that was in the sod."There isn't another way of saying that: if you alter the words, you change the meaning.'Poetry' is language where the precise words matter; where the language becomes opaque.There are several different reasons why a poet might choose to make the language opaque. There are even different degress of how opaque the language needs to be, before you ne! ed to start calling it poetry.If the exact words matter - it is poetry.If only the meaning matters (you can say it a different way, and not change anything important), it isn't poetry....Show more

Derrick Kloke: Poetry (Or Poetic thought), I think, is the most self-satisfying thing yet to be discovered by humans.So, I'd say, keeping in tone with all great quotes, "Poetry is the self-content search for beauty in the simplest aspect of things".

Jesse Japak: It's a way to express. :)