I was just told that when it comes to poetry, "the simpler the better". Is there any truth to this?

I was just told that when it comes to poetry, "the simpler the better". Is there any truth to this?

Yes, that's why my favorite poems are all only one letter long. I think my all time favorite is probably "I" because it has such a simple shape.

my dick
so thick
i beat
your meat
fuck hole
i swole
suck dick
cuck spic
-"Poetry by Trayvon"

wilt, slipping, banana peal,
the crazy story of Desdemona,
riding on her challet horse
dipping through the country side road
stopping to pick some flowers and smell
the sweet summer day
fragrance dancing with frivolous flight
the butterflys prance like angel dragons

the buds buzz buzz
the bugs on kudzu
the birds bellow peep
on spring time tree
around the river bend
the forrests coos

sweet lemon lime
stupid lazy river

fuck
fuck fuck fuck
fuck fuck
fuck fuck
fuck fuck fuck fuck
fuck
fuck fuck fuck
fuck fuck
fuck
fuck fuck fuck
fuck
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
fuck fuck
fuck
fuck
fuck

MASTERPIECE RIGHT HERE, LOOK AT THIS SIMPLICITY

fucking


NORMIES
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

-that toad

I don't think it's about simplicity. I think it's more about using the right words to achieve exactly what must be said.

Take Ezra Pound. In only 2 or 3 lines he can create a clear and precise picture of what he's written.

my girlfriend loves another
she treats me like a brother
tyrone is her true lover
he hits me when I stutter

Simplicity is just one side of the equation. It's about saying as much as you have to say in as little space as you manage to.

>Ezra Pound
Yes. He was very clear about it too. Dichten = condensare.

Only because poets like WCW exist. See red wheelbarrow

I searched this video and was very disappointed to find that it was a toy snake and not a real one

Imagine if writing that was the last thing you ever did?

"Brevity is the soul of wit." - Billy 'deez nuts' Shakespeare

this is a lymric

he's so good

snek

ABCDFG
HIJKLNOP
QRS
TUV
WXY
Z

ME

...

No
I
T
'S
not

Yes.

Yeah definitely. My own masterpiece is a poem without letters.

Skeletons, by user
Skeletons,
They have no need for guns,
Don't want to see the sun,
Made by adding E to bon,
Are always on the run.
Do they like Ellington?
The good Duke is no bum.
What are you Skeletons?

r8 pls