Fashion
Sagging pants, bagging pants,
Pants around the knees,
I don’t like the sight of them,
So hike ’em up there please,
And please…oh please…
Don’t sneeze.
Poetry
I used to know what poetry was, like Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” right? Everything had a certain rhythm and it all rhymed and sounded almost like song. Now we have free verse, pattern verse, terse verse, and a lot of other forms I don’t easily recognize as poetry. Sometimes I think I’m writing poetry, but how do you know?
It seems to me there should be some sort of guidelines to let you say, yes, this is poetry. Of course if there are no official guidelines, you can write almost anything and if it has some type of rhythm or musical quality to it, it is considered poetry.
The above verse, which flooded into my brain as I was awakening, has a certain Shel Silverstein sound to it which I like. I enjoyed all his poetry and was sad to see him go. I guess one of my favorite books by him was “The Giving Tree” which, I guess wasn’t really poetry at all. But look through “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” and you get a lot of enrichment from it even though much of it is rather nonsensical.
Anyway, If anyone knows how to tell if writing is poetry, I would appreciate your input.
P.S. Now this is really weird: I have just discovered a workshop on beginning poetry at our library tonight. I will be there. It’s almost like providence.
Hal C Clark's Blog 
I believe that poetry is any writing that results in a strong response whether it be serious, sad or nonsensical.
Write from the heart and see what comes back to you.
I’m beginning to agree. If people accept it as poetry, then it must be. Takes some practice though. And it’s good try some of every type.
nice view about poetry.
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