Poetry

Definition: Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define

William Carlos Williams was an american poet closely associated with modernism and imagism who also happened to be a physician.

Elephant

As the elephant

climbed over

the top of

the sun

First the trunk,

then his body

clumsily

then the elephant

stepped up

into the side of

the milky

way

This is just to say

I have danced with

the dandelions

That were in

the field

and which

you were probably

saving

for daddy

Forgive me

they were nice

so funny

and so playful