why and how do you like poems?

Question

i will give you an example
===============================================my surroundings are strong
but say to me i dont be long
so i live in a song
and most of the time am wrong
but explain things in word
like the ones i heard
would be a little long
so i try to make it a song
but now as i try
my first question i made lie
so confuse you it may
to bad you didint hear what i say

Answer 1

Philosophical poem why & how I like poems:

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought
And the thought has found words.
The true philosopher and the true poet are one,
And a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty,
Is the aim of both.

Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded
With emotions, all held together by the delicate,
Tough skin of words.
One demands two things of a poem.
Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to The language in which it is written.
Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality Common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before
But, once he has said it, his readers recognize
Its validity for themselves.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,
And makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
There's no money in poetry,
But then there's no poetry in money, either.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned
God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.

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Answer 2

Is this yours? Are you asking if we "like" it?

Why one "likes" anything is probably easier to define than "How", in a strict sense. Thankfully you didn't say Love IT.

How one expresses Liking something is probably more accurate, or to the point.

Actually the last line might be the most valid of all, in the statement "Too bad",,,AND that relates to each of us expressing, and wondering if anyone GETS IT, and/or perceives or interprets our words differently than we intended.

WHY anyone "likes" a body of work, is probably as much a personal issue as was the intent by the writer. "What does it do for me?" Does it inspire? Does it move emotions joyful or sad? Does it create an image, either fantasy related or a recall of a memory?

What so many "Poets"/writers do is truly a self serving act; selfish in regard to creating something they completely relate to, be it dark or light. The reward for a writer may be completely an inner, soulful experience, but the subtly of it all is that we "HOPE" others view it as "icing" on a cake we already believed was "sweet"

Steven Wolf
My Two Cents