poetry

I have read some poetry in high school.  We read some short poems, but I am not into things I cannot understand.  We read some Emily Dickensen, but I don't really understand that kind of stuff either.  I don't have a favorite poet really because I never really liked it enough to remember the names.  I did like when we did poetry over songs in highschool.  We each got to do a powerpoint and bring the song into class to listen to, and we had to explain different aspects of the poem and what the overall meaning was.  I think the definition of a poem is a piece of literature that is rather short that tells some type of story and has some meter or rhyme.  I think it would be really cool if we could do rap songs in class because I think some rap and even just plain old songs tell a great story.