Poetry

How does poetry

Differ from prose?

Why do I enjoy writing my journal

This way

But balk at full sentences?

Somehow this expression

Works for me--

But why and how?

Here I can focus on a word

Or a phrase

To illuminate an idea

Without concern for every bit of punctuation

Topics vary greatly

As life presents new questions.

Thank You, Lord

For providing variety of form

For sculpting thoughts

Within our languages