I (don't) hate poetry. Poetry hates me. We are a big happy family.

     I like poetry, but I don't love it.  I feel like if I had to rank every form of work - there would be many things above poetry: movies, books, shows, short stories, songs, etc.   However, I can appreciate art and poetry is definitely an art.   And I am going to contradict myself here, but you really can't compare different works (even though I just did).  

    The lyrical, rhythmic nature of poems that can be read aloud or silently creates an art form unlike any other.  I have read many emotionally impactful poems and loved them but there is something about them that does grind my gears and I wasn't able to pick it out until Pooja brought something up.  She mentioned how she likes those 2 line poems that appear on TikTok every once in a while.  

Wow so profound.  Yes this is the stuff Pooja likes... I am not judging!!  Its an art and i actually have seen some really creative poems like these, but it makes me realize what I dont like about poems.   It's so easy to make them bad.  

Poem's with their rules, or lack of, and their immense symbolism and rhythm and meter, are difficult to create, but also easy to do in the sense that they are short.  If any person decides to write a couple lines, they have a poem! and it could be really bad.  Trying to be artful and creative in a really stupid (subjective) way, to the point that it becomes corny.   But in that case they actually end up being ironically funny, so maybe their worth lies there?   Maybe it is okay because there will always be someone who appreciates your art, like Pooja.   Maybe an understanding of even the most boring and subjectively "bad" forms of art is something we need to appreciate.  Maybe Pooja knows something I don't.