Poetry, What Is Poetry? (A Definition Of It) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Poetry folk, rural,
Natural, pastoral, romantic, songful,
Hearty and spontaneous,
Poetry wordy, rhetoric, prosodic, stanzaic,
Poetry broken, imagistic,
Epigrammatic, punning,
Light and humorous,
Comic and entertaining,
Poetry linguistic, aesthetic, stylistic,
Poetry modern, post-modern,
Structural, post-structural,
Colonial, post-colonial,
Poetry urban and city-centric
Barren and sterile
Of the waste land, the barren land
Devoid of any greenery,
Poetry metaphysical, mystical, mythical,
Poetry personal and private,
Poetry spiritual, religious and divine,
Classical, artistic,
Poetry dramatic, inner conflicting
Full of thesis and anti-thesis,
Poetry full of internal rhymes,
Poetry verbose, bombastic,
Medieval, pedantic, scholastic,
Weighty and laden with,
Poetry conventional, experimental,
Prosaic or versified,
Satiric, sarcastic,
Sardonic or surreal?