I Can'T Tell You Poem by Peter S. Quinn

I can't tell you what’s poetry and what’s not
For its is so much of the inside things
You have words for what you have lived and brought
And to them attached emotional strings
The feelings that gave your meaning their flight
That no one has transferred outside before
Waves of deep in the ocean of night
That came to its life on a new world shore

A song in your heart that you play and sing
Passionate ways of lyrical lines
Paths to objects hidden - no one else knows
That in from your distance you find and bring
The sense that the experience defines
Flowers in the dirt - trampled on - but still glows



*Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

“Lyric poetry refers to either poetry that has the form and musical quality of a song, or a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings, which may or may not be set to music”.