Figurative Language/Words:  Good poetry uses words/language which reflect meaning in a way that is not 'down-to-earth'/simple.  It is the difference between doing a simple drawing of something and using paint to bring your picture alive, and this is what makes poetry 'special' as against ordinary everyday  language.  What you are doing is painting your words with beautiful colour so that people who read your words will have their imaginations lit up with verbal illustration.  Good poets always use this to make their poems stand out as being something special, and by reading good poetry, you'll soon learn how to do it, as I did.  Josie 

Look at my 3rd verse:  'The wind's refreshing breath' - The wind doesn't really breathe and yet if someone blew on your cheek you would feel their breath, and I'm likening the wind to the breath of a human being.  (Figurative language/personification).  Then:  'removes night's mantle froim the sky.'  A mantle is a covering (rather like a mantelpiece over your fireplace) or a lady's cloak.  I'm referring to the dark sky as a cover which covers the daylight, but of course it doesn't really.  This is good figurative language, and look out for it in poetry.  It is what adds colour to your own writing, ie makes it special.  Look out for it now in my poems.  Josie