Experience in Poetry

I never read poetry outside of school, I'm not really interested in it. I have read a lot of it in school though. I don't really have a favorite poet, Shakespeare isn't bad, of course, and Robert Frost isn't too bad either. Otherwise, other than songs and Dr. Seuss, I don't really read or listen to poetry? Though I do believe it can be interesting and I have been to a poetry reading before, and it was actually really entertaining.

To me, poetry comes in all varieties. It can be really short or pretty long. It can be free verse or rhyming. It needs to have some reason though behind the words, a reason for writing the poem. A message must be able to be understood by the poem. The poem can be simple or be confusing. A lot can be a poem. It's really hard to define what a poem is.