Love Poetry

I love reading

any books, plays, short stories, etc.
hard novels or easy stories i understand an get grasped in them

but i have a hard time understanding poetry

i just make nothing out of some lines and so i keep going and don’t find a purpose to it

i was reading this

My Last Duchess
Robert Browning

That’s my last duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Frà Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)

,,,,,

but i only know what happens because they told me

what can i do to help myself
better understand poems!!?
- 5842

Poetry speaks,,,
delicate joys, shades of sadness,
attitudes veiled, posed smiles,
exposing disguising bluster.

Poetry unwritten,,,
nature’s voice, ocean whispers,
bird’s song, clouds skittering,
universal dynamic actions.

Poetry recalls,,,
mom’s wishes, babies cries,
lovers moans, sorrowful sighs,
longing for understanding.

Poetry creates,,,
fantasy flights, rhythms tuned,
moons glowing, desires designed,
love captured anew.

Poetry written,,,
mere thoughts, a conversation,
revealing much, voicing yourself,
with the world.
- traveling supervisor