Poetry is a form of creative writing that makes use of words for aesthetic purposes. It is usually written in lines, not in continuous forms such as in prose or essays.
Poems are one of artistic ways to express thoughts and emotions. Some use melodic, rhyming stanzas. Others make use of lines that convey underlying meanings, sans rhyming.

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales are classic examples of great poems. Beowulf is another.

Poems often express the writer’s innermost feelings be it love, anger, faith, dislike and others.

The popularity of poem hinges on the fact that it is often evokes great emotions or deep thoughts. Poems are truly creative way of expressing oneself in few chosen words to generate the maximum effect.