Poet composed poems to go in Jamaica Plain today

so much depends
upon

people who
didn't pay

attention in
english class

The definition of what is or is not "poetry" has eluded us for thousands of years.

How about we compromise - yes it's poetry, it's just not very good.

I'd argue this is closer to performance art than pure poetry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry

http://www.poetry.org/whatis.htm

Sound reverberates
Emptiness signifying
Words best left unsaid

Even if he was born in 1894 and died in 1962

As Is The Sea Marvelous
as is the sea marvelous
from god’s
hands which sent her forth
to sleep upon the world

and the earth withers
the moon crumbles
one by one
stars flutter into dust

but the sea
does not change
and she goes forth out of hands and
she returns into hands

and is with sleep….

love,
the breaking

of your
soul
upon
my lips
Book: 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings

Or Bukowski:

air and light and time and space

"–you know, I’ve either had a family, a job,
something has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have
a place and the time to
create."

no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquake, bombardment,
flood and fire.

baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.

© Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press

the "there once was a man from Nantucket" school of verse, but you'll be surprised to learn: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

Your mind is missing a Coney Island