Poetry is a form of expression unlike any other and the words of poets can shape the world around us. Think of Shakespeare, and Homer, and Maya Angelou and how they've effected humanity. But poetry isn't exclusively "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day", it is also "I am not free while any woman is unfree even when her chains look very different from my own". It is "And you call me up again just to break me like a promise" and it's "like a heartbeat drives you mad in the stillness of remembering what you had and what you lost". Poetry comes in a thousand forms from the brevity of a haiku to the power of an epic. Why not use poetry to express your own feelings, thoughts, and experiences?
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by 
