Poetry is a variable literary genre characterized by rhythmical patterns of language.

These patterns typically consist of patterns of meter (regular patterns of high and low stress), syllabification (the number of syllables in each line of text), rhyme, alliteration, or combinations of these elements.

The poem typically involves figurative language such as schemes and tropes, and it may bend (or outright break) the conventions of normal communicative speech in the attempt to embody an original idea or convey a linguistic experience.

Many modern students mistakenly believe that rhyme is the dominant feature separating poetry from prose (non-poetic) writings.

However, rhyme is actually a fairly recent addition to poetry. In classical Greece and Rome, meter was the trait that separated poetry from prose.

In other words, writing poetry let's you express all of your emotions on a piece of paper, a piece of wood, writing it with a stick in the sand, on a beach. Anyway possible!

Writing lets you express some of the feelings deep inside your soul; and just feel free.

Expressed on the next three pages, are three very special poems that I have composed. The first one, "an explanation why" was composed at one of the worse times of my life; but I figured out that life had to go on, and God would help me.

The second one was written during the first war in the middle east, when I had friends there; it is entitled, "the refugee."

The third poem was written one day, during a storm in the Midwest. It is entitled, "the abrupt storm."