A lyric poem is a private expression of emotion by an individual speaker.

Lyric poetry is highly musical and can feature poetic devices like rhyme and meter.
One type of lyric poetry is SONNET.
SONNET- A sonnet is a one-stanza, 14-line poem, written in iambic pentameter. The sonnet, which derived from the
Italian word sonetto, meaning “a little sound or song,"

First, a poem must be magical Every poem must have magic, and it must be musical."
Then musical as a sea-gull.

It must be a brightness moving A poem, like a bird, must move its readers or enlighten them. This is the
And hold secret a bird's flowering. difference between prose and poetry. Prose is flat footed and stationary;
poetry soars, flies like a bird. A stationary bird, when first seen, appears
like a rosebud but as it flies, it opens up and spreads its wings and blooms
like a flower.

A poem is economical; use less words but achieve an effect

It must be slender as a bell And by 'fire' in the next line, I simply mean that a poem must have a
And it must hold fire as well. spirit."

A good poem delivers the message. I am speaking of the archer's bow. A

It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
good bow is one that knows when to shoot, and one that directs the arrow
to its mark.
A poem and its poet must be humble. All fine people are humble and a
poem should also be humble, however beautiful it is."

It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and deer.
"There's a good man behind every fine poem. A good poet is usually a
good person. 'Luminance' naturally means brightness. When I see a
good face, it's a good face and I respond. When I see a bad face, it is the
face full of crime, even though he doesn't proclaim his crime. His face
proclaims it out loud."A poet knows instinctively.
A good poem has good intentions

A poem must not explicitly state meaning. The reader is supposed to

It must be able to hide sense it out, feel it. The language itself doesn't tell you, but the
What it seeks, like a bride. substructure behind that language is the real meaning. It is not explicit and
declarative.

When you see a blessed creature, God shinesand hovers over that saintly
And over all I would like to hover creature. Thepoem itself creates a God-hood, and the poemradiates
God, smiling from the poem's cover. Godness. At the same time, God ishovering over it, acknowledging the
Godnessradiating from the poem, itself, which embodies the spirituality
existing in a poem and, atthe same time, radiates it to others."