creative writing assignment, pt ii

Poems have rhythm, measure, lyrics, and lines
(well, sometimes, maybe, not all the time).
A rhythmic articulation of feeling - not concealing, but revealing,
Our emotion, our devotion, our expulsion, our revulsion.
Poetry is everything we have felt, do feel, will feel.
Poetry is the past poet, the present poet, the future poet.
Poetry is
Late nights, moonlight through the window,
exhausted, ecstatic, devouring Poe or Thoreau.
Ginsberg howling, raving, stark mad through the street,
Sappho exuding, illuming, love through beauty and heat.
Poetry is
the feel of paper in the hand, truth in the heart,
all of life spanned, an immersion into art.
Poetry is
stillness of the soul, like a soft winter snow,
— nothing left to show.