Most Poetry written are written by Absolute Amateurs who read Sylvia Path and Never Grew Up. And even Plath has some winners but it's definitely sad sack as fuck. But there are some fantastic poets out there. Yeats (Who famously summoned a vampire to kill Alistair Crowley), Kipling (Who's poems are based as fuck - I recommend starting with The Betrothed). Robert Howard's Poems are brilliant wordplay and manly af as well. But there's a lot of shitty poems out there. A fuck ton. But there are some brilliant poets out there that really let you *feel* the world - and not in a sadsack way. There was a poet who wrote poems about pig farming and they were genius. The problem is we've got all these people who think they can be doggerelist, vague, with unconvincing metaphors, political statements, and a general lack of quality. But how can one read The Betrothed, or A Song To Mithras and not want to lift heavy objects? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Departmental_Ditties_and_Ballads_and_Barrack-Room_Ballads/The_Betrothed https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Song_to_Mithras That said, most poetry is, in fact, terrible faggot-vomit. Source: My minor was in poetry.