on poetry

[illuvium]

nothing really stellar from me today, i'm afraid. i've never really regarded myself as much of a poetry fan. like, of course i'll appreciate a good poem, but i feel like poetry is one of those things where either it's really good or it's just sort of miserable. i feel like a lot of times, the line between the two is really blurry as well, given that sometimes i think i find myself thinking that a poem is better than it maybe actually is thanks to my knowing the author. i'm not sure. anyway, i think some more of my general apprehension towards poetry is the ambiguity. lots of poems i've read kind of had me lost, or at the very least left me with some semblance of an idea regarding what the intended purpose was but nothing solid that really affirmed or denied my thoughts. i'm not a big fan of that, either. another hypothetical could simply be that i don't write poetry. i prefer writing prose, but i feel like the argument to be made for poetry is that there's a lot more formatting you can mess with. i love writing that messes with conventional norms, and poetry's arguably the best format through which to do that. lots of my friends and people i know in general think of me as a hater, which isn't wrong just looking at the plethora of ai-related posts i've made, but i don't hate poetry. it's just one of those things i don't understand very clearly. it's like how i say i don't understand why people use ai when i do; i just don't sympathize with its users much. perks of having some level of self-awareness, i guess?