Why Poetry?

The readings on poetry were extremely eye opening and much of what was said by Macaluso really caught my attention.  Her first poem about poems was extremely interesting because many writers tend to avoid writing poems and her article alone explains why we so desperately need poems as writers.  To live in a way so that poems find us is the biggest part to take away from Macaluso's poem about poems.  Poems allow us to express so much of the unsaid things in our mind that flow onto the paper.  Why are poems so confusing?  It is probably for the reason that the ideas in a poem come from a lot of inner expression that we as writers cannot quite explain.  Poems are almost like a fingerprint on the page that is all our own as the authors and we sometimes have to explain what we mean by the words we are saying in the poem.
 Poems can be more formulaic in the sense that some have patterns and many of them do not have full sentences for many lines at a time and that can seem confusing for readers at a glance.  However, isn't anything you read in literature or writing up for interpretation?  That is the true beauty of a poem, in that we cannot out our finger on the exact interpretation but we can toy and play with the words to delve deeper meaning from the words.
    The words in a poem alone also give us insight into the world around us, as Macaluso says.  Sensory wording in a poem helps to paint a picture in the reader's mind to find a deeper meaning.  While we can do so in another form of writing, a poem lets the writer play with words and put them in places that open our eyes to the real world.  It could be two words put together or three lines of abstract wording and either situation can make a poem so powerful in the way that we see the theme or idea that an author is trying to get across in his/her poem.  As Macaluso points to, language and experience have are the key parts to a poem that students can play with and create a better understanding of how the two relate to each other.