What is it?

What is a poem?

A few lines that rhyme?

The ravings of a madman?

Or maybe just whatever comes to mind...

But what separates a poem from a blog?

Or an entry to a diary?

What exactly is considered poetic?

A form of art that is so basic, and yet so daedalean

Words 

Something that is a talent handed down to every poet 

A natural gift 

In fact it's a gift everyone is given 

But a gift that needs to be unlocked by choice 

Maybe I should toil away until this too becomes my art of choice 

Maybe even my raison d'être 

And maybe on the journey of existence 

Will my inconsiquential questions be revealed before my dying eye 

Just in time to figure out 

I had doomed the outcome from the beginning 

But let me ask one last question before the end befall

If this is not poetry 

Yet not a madman's ravings 

Then what?

 

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is just my start to poetry with the questions of what my creations should look like