Many people have different ways they perceive poetry. However, what one poet thinks is poetry is not what the other feels is poetry. 
The popular definition given to poetry is that it is a collection of poems.
.......What is Poetry?
1. Emeritus Solihu: To me is a 'pain reliever'
The best way to express ur feelings..
2 .Abel Nyasani: Is the linguistic and rhythmic use of words.
3. R. Patki: Language of Love ❤
4. David Orefuwa: I'll use the simplest though most complex words...
Poetry is finding voice for the silent things, feelings,thought and character of our inner beings.
It is the plant and our feelings are it's water. The more the water of our feelings, the bigger our inner poems grow.
5. Mindlos: Art
6 .Rose Greeny: Poetry is where we pour out emotions within, baggage we are carrying, unspoken thoughts. It also an outlet for us to express, where we sometimes thought that we alone fighting battles within. But in reality each of us going through pain, fighting battles within. We are not alone.
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7. Charles Joseph: Poet is the person who wrote a poems and make a poetry book And poetry is a combination of poems that all nothing or more.
8. Akhona: A type of writing were words are just there to be read but also to understand how the poet expresses his/her emotion
9. Shehu Abubakar: Economy of words.
10. Monday Samuel: Poetry to me is just like you bottling up your feelings and emotions in a single bottle or traveling through lines and stanzas to express your feelings
11. Susan Nelson: Poetry is an outlet of emotions through words / The transformation of emotions into words
12. Monarr Monarr: God is Poetry in expression and exhibition...
13. Yusuf Ajewumi: Poetry is pouring out your emotion with the bleeding of the ink, to write to right the wrong of the people.
14 . Marverick: Poetry is an escape.. if not for the poet, then for the audience.
15. Odebowale Paul: Poetry can be define as the clarifying,expressing of one feeling thought emotions to meet the large unit of human being to build ingredients of choice and wants.
16. Saluadeen: Poetry is an Expression of Fears and Happiness.
17. Tonye Orubo: Poetry is Anger coated in sweet words, hate coated in love and reality laid in disguise.
Poetry is the truth in every fallacy and the fallacy in every truth.
18. Jummy Is'haq: Poetry the collection of ones expressed emotion it's also one of the essential genre of literature
19. Adedero Favour: Poetry is simply writing what makes you feel unease to feel alive again. Kind of a dose for you to take to relief your heart.
20. Theddy Theddy: It is an interpretation of truths, emotions, mysteries, known, unknown, of past present and future.
Poetry is the expression of these.
21. Charles Joseph: Nope poetry is a collection or combinations of poems.
22. Onke Makabela: The reflection souls through words, blind thoughts with the greatest vision, exposure and isolated freedom.
23. Ramesh Chandra: Poetry is life that teaches how to survive
24. Ann Nugent: Poetry is an exhalation of words.
25. Miracle Ikechi: Poetry is you!
26. Kat Shale: Poetry is words that describes unspoken feelings.
27. Bessy Kay: Poetry is your emotion, manifesting in words and rhythm.
28 . Princewisdon Junior : It is an interpretation of life using words, lines and stanza in such a way that the reader might never understand or might over understand it..........its not balanced, just like life.
29. Henry Angelo: Poetry is an ideal piece of information configured in figures in well curtailed manner.
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30. Nerstone: Poetry ia a gift given ,a flows of idea a thought that was say a voice from ur inner who truly want to speak and be hear ,it can be a reality experience can be transmitted trough fiction and fantasies ,it is an art of writing and speaking,a creativity of wording,an illustration of what we feel ,poetry is us our self that was speaking and discover to grow the beauty mystery and meaning of a simple happening in our daily days become extra meaningful and wonderful ,,,A deep emotion and thoughts a very broad category endless ,no boundaries, freely ,soulful and inspiration,a journey of the soul....that all.
31. Ntombi Vultomi: Poetry is a combination of poems,,, but most of all poetry is a combination of different emotional expressions of how an author is feeling about situations around the world....🙈
32. Arisno Nwankwo: Poetry is a beautiful thing that happened to Arisno, it could heal a dying soul and make it bleed too.
I see poetry as a traditional motivator and a truth and lies dispenser. It is like life! Poetry is a kind of music.
It could be emotionally deep or not.
33. Enofe Salome: Poetry is my feelings in writing
34. Ibrahim Suphy King: Poetry is a language spoken from a strange land to exert the truth where many lies have been thriving, to dish justice where oppressions dwell, and to heal the mind of its emotional wreckage.
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36. Justice Williams:
Poetry is the mirror of life.
37. Dee Dee: Poetry is the spontaneous outburst of emotion and ideas recollected in tranquility
38. Abbas: An expression of life facts which appeals the inner incandescence driven by inspiration.
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