The Beauty of Poetry

A poem is so much easier to write than anything else.

 It does not demand explanation, 

or anything intricately structured.

 It is the inner workings of the mind in a brief, 

phrased format with no other technicalities than having eloquence, 

which every thought that is a thought does. 

And it need not be interpreted correctly. 

You know what a poem is about,

 how you intended for it to be read because you wrote it. 

But a reader can look at the exact same words, 

the exact same combination of letters, 

and pull together completely different fragments of thought. 

And while those letters developed from the inner workings of your own mind, 

the interpretation of those letters in a reader comes from their own mind, 

from their own inner machinery, 

coaxed into the lamplight by an artist’s craft. 

This is the beauty of poetry.