What poetry isn't (idea) by tentative

People write poetry
As though it is a story
With a lot of spaces in
Between the
Words

Poetry is not my life
Spaced down the center
Of a page
Poetry is not a paragraph
Split into a hundred pieces
Poetry does not have to rhyme
Does not even have to be rhythmic
But it should be beautiful
To the ear

Poetry can be a story
But it should also be
Poetic
A beautiful twisting of words
That creates
Romance
And dreams
And fear

But when I hear a poem
You hear a poem
It should make you
Stop
Think
And hear it again

Good-looking guy game	Too much bad poetry on E2	This isn't counting. This is sentencing.	((Cover))
Generation Jones	On poetry	lately I can't speak words fail me why won't this end	He believes he has written a poem, yes.
love poem to a poet	A poem for a man who does not read poetry.	Your girlfriend will never forget how adorable you were the first time you went	Noders' poetry
Wordmongers' Masque: Poets' Ball	instant poetry	We all know what beautiful eyes are like, what they do to you.	Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief
This is a poem I wrote about nothing in particular	Problems with E2 user poetry	Forms of poetry	A New Apartheid
Finding air where matter once was	Non-rhyming limerick