Poetry's purpose

poetry is often used for showing your feelings.
there's sonnets for feelings of joy or love.
ellegy's for feelings of sorrow and regret or mourning.
general poems for whatever feelings happen to be going through your mind as you stare at a cloud.
in my personnal experience almost all poems have something to do with love. not necesarily love as a focal point, but it's included in most poems.
i myself have written my fair share of "love" poems all saying how beautiful that someone is or how much im hurt by this action or that or how i want to love...but they all seem to be missing something to me, they never quite seem atiquite. it wasn't until just now in reading a friends blog that i realized my missing piece...the One who IS Love.
how can you write about love without Love itself being included.
i had never considered this and just thought that it must be me being to much of a perfectionist to see that my poems were fine. that's what everyone told me
"your poems are great" "i love you poetry" "there's nothing wrong with them they're fine"
"fine"...that's the problem i'm not one to settle for "fine" i needed that missing piece i needed to make my poetry go beyond "fine" to what it was suppose to be...but that presents a whole new question in itself, what is poetry suppose to be? is it suppose to be a way to show love or joy or sorrow...or is it suppose to be all of them?
before i didn't know, i was thinking to much and not listening enough. all it took to realize what was missing was some blogs of a friend that were written from listening instead of thinking. the human mind is truly amazing, and can be used to benefit God and others in so many ways we can't even begin to imagine, but it can also be our downfall and bring us to our knees.
how many times have i thought about how to better life and then in the same second thought about how much i hate someone...someone who means the world to the One who loves me more then i could ever deserve. how can i hate or even dislike someone He created and put Himself into?
poetry is putting ones feelings and thoughts and soul into words, its either powerful or lacking, it all just depends on whether or not you incorporate the original Author of poetry, the One who writes with trees and wind and oceans and sounds and people, the One who gives us the feelings and thoughts that we put into our poetry. looking back on my poetry that was always the problem...i just never realized because i was to busy thinking about the problem instead of listening for an answer