How do you do poetry

How do you do poetry?

Do you make

Words fall

Off the page

Like the last drop

Of rain from

A

Storm?

Do you shape words

Into images that open the mind

And calibrates the man into a new

Understanding?

And is this poetry -- however you do it --

Released only to the gifted

The learned -- or is this free to

All

Like a healing stream through which flows

Eternal knowledge