It didn't matter to my English teachers if I was poetic ... based English style to greatly aid me in reporting and explaining the most important facts of any given event I am writing about.

vocabulary (word connotations and associations, and tone); and style (image, metaphors, comparisons, allusions, word play, personification, repetition, etc.) As a class, we will read the poem out loud ...

Many mornings, I just want to get on with my day and loathe stopping to write poetry. Yet, my attitude usually changes after a few minutes of writing. Transforming my anxieties into art ...