It Is Our Nature to Love... and Nature Is Our Inspiration

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>Some readers may ask Why is a book of poems called a book of lyrics and songs or vice versa?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>This may be because the word </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>poem</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)> can be misused and may be the most misused word in the English language leading one to be very cautious about using it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>More recently the word </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>poem</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)> seems to have included nearly anything. What makes a good poem? Who really knows? But it does seem to be a little more than well-written prose. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>The </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>Oxford English Dictionary</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)> describes a poem as a piece of imaginative writing in verse and poetry as a quality of beauty or emotional power-poetry and fire balanced in music.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>At what stage songs and lyrics become poetry is not very clear but the connection is clearly very close.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>