What, in your terms, is poetry?

To me, poetry is when the writer breaks the rules of professional, formal, informal and/or narrative prose because they want to use a specific strategy in order to convey a personal or important message. It can rhyme or not rhyme at all (though I prefer not rhyming; rhyming takes away the true nature of poetry). It's when people all have different interpretations of the work; that's what makes art, art.

I think any guy who reads poetry is an intellectual and a beautiful person at heart. Men were the original poets; it was not a woman's art. Men wrote about war and strife, until Catullus came along and began writing poetry for/about his beloved girlfriend, Lesbia. So in that note, poetry is manly, however the much of the modern world is losing its appreciation for the art.

Anyway, in my mind, verse is seperate from prose in that it breaks the rules of literary form. Like another person wrote, rhyming or nonrhyming, though I actually prefer rhyming or at least having meter. What originally gave poets ftheir glory was not just the beautiful way in which they wove their words but also the meter and the rhyme they used; it's not easy, and if one could produce a rhythic and rhyming poem, and contain prolific meaning, then he or she was an impressive artist of the literary kind. In fact, the definition is "literature in metrical form "

In my words any guy who reads poetry is a frilly douche fag