This poem was the first poem I created while in Global RAP (Rhythm and Poetry). I made a poem defining what I thought poetry was. The first time I wrote it, I felt like I put a lot into it, but it didn’t feel complete. After going home and working on it some more, I created something that felt final and complete and that I was confident presenting.
Poetry is…
A story
A key to the soul as a gift of harmony
Poetry is…
An expression of life
A window
Into the world you know
And the one you don’t
Poetry is…
Easy to come by but hard to find
Only found if you’re listening
It captures the mind, one rhyme at a time as it moves from line to
line verse to verse caught in the words of the writer
Or should I say the conversationalist
Poetry is an outlet
A door for every emotion in the body mind soul heart
It’s
a key in the ignition to freedom
to go press
start like to the engine in a Beemer
Poetry
is like the Rastafari
beatin’ on their drum drums and enjoyin’ their life
Poetry is to stop
poetry is to go
it’s up…it’s down
it’s fast…it sloooooooow
Poetry is eternal
its life is lived long
so when the poets heart stops
The poem bleeds on