Most poets write in shortful spurts,
(Departures are Evangeline and Shakespeare's works).
Now, why do poets write that way?
Why do they bother with contrived word play?

There's something about poetic style
that more easily makes people smile,
or cry, at times, it all depends
upon the poet's aims and ends.

To express one-self in words of rhyme
impresses readers most of the time.
Poets freely bend the language rules,
and do things to words you won't learn in schools.

A poet, too, can be quite incisive
by saying vital points precisive.
But I suspect the reason poets write that way
is that they simply have much to say.

They apply discipline to all expressions,
words, ideas and moral lessons;
and what's more - lady or gent -
a poet is generally more eloquent.