I've only really recently started exploring modern and postmodern poets. I would love to read the poem about "fifi, the dangerous fag dog." It sounds like great fun.

Thank you for sharing your experiences on what drew you to poetry. I understand what you mean about the way the words rolled around your mouth. I remember reading poems by Burns and Shakespeare long before I was able to parse out what they meant. I actually enjoy Shel Silverstein more as an adult than I did as a child.

Poetry has been a wonderful thing in some of the roughest times of my life, both writing and reading it. So your comments about writing as a teen resonate strongly with me.

So for me, I suppose, enjoying poetry is tied both to the enjoyment of the written word (and the spoken word) as well as the way a poem can express emotion so succinctly and heartwrenchingly.

So perfectly said.