Many finds it difficult to define poetry!
So in your sense, what is poetry to you?

An aid to memory. An experiment into more advanced modes of being. Chronotope turned euchronia. The esemplastic fled away with the quadlibetical. The Transforming Agent of Change. Ostranenie of dull perception. Intelligence distilled into truth.

It's the way I feel about something, or an experience I have had or something I have noticed.
It's a move of the Spirit that brings me to need to say something.
It's a weeping or dying on the page.
Poetry lets me get it out in a way that doesn't require sources, or proof, or explanation. It just is.

Poetry to me is like a moments capture in our heads and express in words thoughts our hearts

Is like painting....try to fix a life moment in its total intensity

From our minds there are disembodied words that coalesce into perceptible forms, among them - poetry, which in comparison to other forms of articulation allow us a licence to fashion an experience of language in the stretching of its features, techniques and devices - as in a dance or a painting or other visual art and motion.