What are poems? What is poetry? Is there a one sentence answer for these questions?

I don't think so but i will try my best to give a simple answer to these questions.

For me writing poetry is the best way to express your feelings. Some things are personal and we cannot express them verbally. Even if we try to express them verbally we end up getting emotional. I will talk about my experience.

I am Avishi kala, an author of the book -I still hide you in my poem. I started writing when I didn't know how to tell people what I was going through or how i am feeling verbally. I always ended up getting emotional or getting scared that the other person who is listening to my problems will one day leave as it may be too much for them. That's when I started writing poems. Poems to express all of my feelings, love,heartbreak,sad,happy,healing,moving on and many more . Now that I think of it i am glad that I started writing, now I don't end up choking myself from my own tears when I talk about that bad phase, now I feel I am a calmer version of myself. I am grateful for my poems,they only made me move on and made me make peace with my self. 

I also think that emotional and sensitive people should do more of reading and writing poetry. The best way for them to be happy again is to do the above mentioned things. I have expressed my story in my poems and I think it also makes me feel proud about my emotions and my genuine feelings . I would like to end with a poem 

   Destiny

Everyone is telling me about their partners 

They indeed are lucky as they don't care about others

I feel happy for them as I love 'LOVE'

But I feel empty because I don't know what I deserve 

Maybe a little alone time will help 

Or maybe this void will never end 

But whatever happens I am here to face it smilingly 

Afterall I do believe in destiny