Poetry!

Wow!!! poetry... i don't really have anything to say about poetry because... well, it's not that i don't know anythintg about it... it's just that.. sometimes.. it's discouraging to do something related to poetry or art for that matter. I learned in my LITERA classes that what you think is poetry might not really be poetry... you made a poem... that's nice.. but unless someone else recognizes it as a poem.. then it's not. No, your mother or your girlfriend is not credible enough a source to consider that a poem. a poem has passion... no your poem about your girlfriend is NOT a poem... a poem must have measures... ever consider free verse? and finally, poetry has standards... "then why the heck would you rather consider a comma in the middle of a paper poetry compared to the one i wrote about my girlfriend's hair gleaming like the rays of the sun??" this may all just sound like ranting... but i hope i got my point across that.. poetry.. is just so.... wierd...