English 1020: What I think of Poetry

I was amazed at how much feeling that was projected in their voices as they read their poems. I never thought that maybe our experiences, things that we have seen, and things that we feel could become a poem. Poetry is beautiful in my eyes, every poem has a message, whether it's hidden or clearly expressed. I can't write poetry whatsoever, but I do the same type of thing with the short stories I write. I think that inside every poem there is a story. Whether it's about love, hate or an issue we feel strongly about. Symbols, in my opinion, are just used to either represent our feelings, or to represent ourselves. We could write about something as simple as the trees outside.