Poetry Is...

By: Heather Martin

Poetry is nothing

But everything



Dances in dreams

That vanish when you wake

Coffee and cream

With a taste of cake



Simplicity found

In a hard drive

Books bound

To stay in an archive



Excuses made

With fake emotion

Ghosts that

Start a commotion



Unsaid words

Of unmatched glory

A long life

Without a story



A lone wolf

That runs in a pack

A rich man

Without a shirt on his back



Youth wasted

On the young

A snake

Without a sharp tongue



Poetry is everything

But nothing