What I have been told

I have been told what poetry is and what it is not Its description could pass for icy heat Meaning it is not always hot It’s as common as a cold but cannot always be caught It is flaming lines covered in stanzas of snowed thoughts A rough visualization of a subject Poetry like saponification brings to bare the ills of the heart It symmetrically balances dreams and realties in life Poetry is more viscos than your mother’s condensed milk and more satisfying than your father’s will It is breathing life into words and giving purpose to ink A writing machine that compresses floodgates of powerfully emotional problems into aftermaths of leaving the reader in deep solution thinking Beauty is pain and pretty also hurts but poetry is beautifully pretty without those A silhouette of alphabets An outline of incomplete sentence that makes complete sense Words dipped in contrast of deeper reasoning and pain exposed from the shadows It doesn’t have to follow the rules of grammar and construction Meaning Microsoft word will underline them in blue, Red and green before I give them to you It’s a division of ideas called stanzas with lines making much meaning with a few words It is not always filled with the poetic pattern of a rhyming scheme All it needs is just meter and rhythm It uses poetic devices to give beauty to the present And even though Ayi Kwei Armah says That the beautiful ones are not yet born Poetry is literature and literature is life That beautiful has been born And that beautiful is poetry Life is beautiful Poetry is the color of no lie Even when it turns black, black is strength Therefore poetry is beautiful It is like the eyes which is useless if the mind is blind And that is what I have been told Poetry never grows old! …Inspired by Goddy Nana Mens… Aba Radical The Photographer of Thoughts Fb: Mercy Aba Blankson Twitter: @aba radical IG: Aba Radical +233249953609 Comment, like and share #AbaIssaRadicalWriter