Does Poetry Matter?

Of course poetry matters! If one stops and thinks a little, it is all around us everyday. The music we listen to is poetry. We like it because it flows, rhymes, touches our souls, evokes memories of people or places we have been. Maybe a song reminds you of an old boyfriend or girlfriend like Beyonce's "Put a Ring on It", or maybe that old country song reminds you of a grandparent, Johnny Cash and his song "Ring of Fire". A rap song could remind you of the inner city problems of today's generation, drugs, drive by's, the things gangsters do, with explosive words, like "BLOW," on e of E-40's coined words of choice. When you here "BLOW" you know its him in the song, because that may be the only thing he says, if he is doing a guest appearance in another rappers song. You may have never realized that the words in movies you watch are poetry, a line that you will never forget, like Old Chief Lone Waddy, in the Outlaw Jose Whales, "I will endeavor to persevere." His line resonates in my mind even today when I feel that I am feeling down. Though I did agree that poetry is not mainstream as it once was in the times of old, much of today's poerty is crap and not worth the time, but when you find that one poem you love, you will never forget it. Like the nursery rhymes your mother or grandmother told you before bed, or at lunch, or by the old tire swing in the backyard. Poetry maters very much, in the lives of everyone, even if you didn't know it, its there lurking.