If You Are Easily Shocked, Don't Wear Nylons!

If You Are Easily Shocked, Don't Wear Nylons Poetry 7. Poetry is the expression of life, both real and imagined, lived and desired, achieved and unattainable. It is the articulation of thought into words, the transformation of concepts into language; a metamorphosis that is neither simple nor implicit. To write poetry is to run free, to dream beyond the constraints of mortality and to see beyond the stars. To read poetry is to fertilise and develop one