\Po"et*ry\, n. 1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. --Coleridge.

2. Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. ''The planetlike music of poetry.'' --Sir P. Sidney.

She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry. --Shak

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"ADVICE TO THE NOVICE"
Young Writer, whose burnished hungers
The world waits next to turn away,
Let your understanding undulate
In Spirit catching waves:
A higher frequency creasting
Further in the future.

Young Reader, respect these efforts
To find the Why in the world’s way.
Listen and let in who moved
These wanderers to utter

Their purposeful letters
Filled with the Light to unite All.

~Ken Jones