People are keen on over defining things, and in the long run I believe doing so leads us in a straight line to fascism. Not everything has to be categorized in a jar.
However, for the purposes of grant writing and educating little kids, its always good to have some kind of definition ready to go. So, here goes my first effort.
Poetry is the thoughtful expression of human experience in a written language form.
Poetry is a partnership between reader and writer. Poetry is condensation.
Poetry is resonance of thought and feeling, captured by one human and gifted to another.
Poetry is an emotional snapshot carved by your mind into the marble slabs of listeners.
Poetry is
A hope
A promise
A dirty little thrill.
Poetry is a tinglingly new way and new life breathed into a universal and timeless concept.
Poetry is a bulwark against an ever-maddening sky, where our minds are pulped by the everwidening jaws and grinder of Demand and Now.
Poetry is your voice, distilled.
Painting is Opulence by Aiden Kringen.
Erin Oubliette 
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