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A space alien
Visiting the earth
Was curious about
Humanity

He stopped Sam Adams
And asked him
To explain this thing
We call poetry

Sam Adams said

Poetry is mysterious
Poetry is music
Poetry is the soul language

Poems come from one’s muse
A mysterious creature
That compels the writer

Poetry is words
Expressing one’s inner life
Poetry is what it is
And sometimes what it ain’t

In the end
Poetry just is
What it is

The alien smiled
Said you humans
Are so strange
The strangest creatures
In the galaxy


Ars Poetica is the art of writing about the art of writing poetry. There are no specific structural requirements, just let your imagination loose and tell us what it means to you in whatever form you choose, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/ars-poetica

Ars Poetica
A poem that explains the “art of poetry,” or a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem. Horace’s Ars Poetica is an early example and the foundation for the tradition. While Horace writes of the importance of delighting and instructing audiences, modernist Ars Poetica poets argue that poems should be written for their own sake, as art for the sake of art. Archibald MacLeish’s famous “Ars Poetica” sums up the argument: “A poem should not mean / But be.” See also Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism,” William Wordsworth’s Prelude, and Wallace Stevens’s “Of Modern Poetry.”