I can't tell you what’s poetry and what’s not br For its is so much of the inside things br You have words for what you have lived and brought br And to them attached emotional strings br The feelings that gave your meaning their flight br That no one has transferred outside before br Waves of deep in the ocean of night br That came to its life on a new world shore br br A song in your heart that you play and sing br Passionate ways of lyrical lines br Paths to objects hidden - no one else knows br That in from your distance you find and bring br The sense that the experience defines br Flowers in the dirt - trampled on - but still glows br br br br *Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: br br “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”.br br Peter S.