Poetry

Today we focused on poems. I wrote a Haiku in response to another poem. It went like this:
'Yes, but do they have
the right to recieve any
approval from me?'

The poem I responded to was in Finnish, so I won't post it, but basically it was a list of what people have the right to do.

Now we're supposed to do some sort of Google search poem. Sounds cool and all except I didn't really get the instructions. Go figs. But at one point the teacher said something about 'what is poetry?' which was sort of more exciting to think about.
SO...what is poetry? To me, bad poetry is a cop out. Something I used in creative writing last year when I just didn't feel like trying. And as a second semester high school senior with creative writing as first period...that happened a lot. oops. (Yet, somehow I scored the best writer of the semester award? Well...I didn't have a stiff competition.)
Good poetry, however, is a nice way of writing thoughts in their concrete form, which, on paper is somewhat abstract. I like how poetic thoughts can rise above grammar restrictions and structure and do their own thing, freely. I like how a lot of poetry is just pointless jibber jabber if I can't personally connect with it, but when the poet's thoughts match my own, the deeper meaning extends past any piece of prose.

And now I have 'Haiku' by Tally Hall stuck in my head.
'Lah dah dee diddum
Lah dah dee doom doo ditto
Dum doo lah dee doh'