Poetry

Poetry
The ability to write it,
A gift with words,
With meter, sometimes rhyme.
Emotions and psychology.
Images and metaphors.
What makes poetry?
If someone says it is poetry,
Does that make it true?
If a piece does not rhyme,
How can you tell?
Many ways.
Perhaps the fact
That it makes no sense,
Or is broken up,
In strange ways,
Like this is.
That it speaks of things
That never were,
Or maybe things that are,
But in a way
That you never
Could have dreamed up.
Similes, analogies, metaphors,
What is the difference?
Must the image be a flower?
Do you have to have
Sight, touch, smell, hearing,
And even taste?
Or do you have to have
Images at all?
What makes beautiful poetry,
But the sounds,
And the simple fact,
That someone says it is a poem?