Poetry Defined

My words collected on a line Attempt my subject to define Spilling forth these thoughts of mine Laid before the reader who Flowing like a velvet wine Tastes the words anew Do they to the reader speak Please the audience I seek Or is my writing too oblique Leaving those who read to muse Perhaps again I have to tweak The words that I use For every writer knows that they Hope the verse that they display Pictures to the mind convey Trips of fantasy promote Imaginations freely play Just from the words they wrote Written in Scottish Stanza or six line stave, a style inspired by Margaret Fosters poem Mirran