What Is A Poem?

I think a poem is a descriptive and creative way to express the way you feel. It's a good way to show your emotion or feelings about something . There's really no limit to what you can write about in a poem, you can describe in detail a certain event that happend to you that was somehow special, or you could write simpily about a certain feeling that you get. Such as love, or being scared, or getting let down. Poetry is a deeper way of telling how you feel, or describing something speical to you, in a way that's more creative than just telling it through a story.
You can write about memories, or just make the poem up about something totally random, poems can be "deep" and from the heart, and really mean something to you, or they can be funny, and kind of abstract.
Poems don't always have to rhyme, and they don't even have to have a certain or consistant flow, that's what's so fun about it, you can write about anything, any way that you want to.
My Favorite poem would be "Footprints" by Mary Stevenson

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him, and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his lifethere was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life. This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it. "Lord, You said that once I decided to follow you, You'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one setof footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me." The Lord replied,"My son, My precious child, I love you and I wouldnever leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I Carried You."

I'm really not much of a religious person, at all. But I've always loved this poem, I think it has a really good meaning, or message to it.