Fellow FAs, know any good non-love themed poetry? If so paste it here so we can discuss. ;)

How wonderful is Death,
Death, and his brother Sleep!
One, pale as yonder waning moon
With lips of lurid blue;
The other, rosy as the morn
When throned on ocean’s wave
It blushes o'er the world;
Yet both so passing wonderful!

That's the beginning of Shelley's Queen Mab (sorry for the love-themed dedication). I very much like narrative longform poetry because it flows easily, not putting undue stress on every single word but letting images and impressions form and allowing the listener or reader periods of relaxation by balancing action with contemplation and the dazzling with the conventional.
Short poems are often very condensed and try hard to be flashy. They remind me of certain academics (philosophers are the worst) who want every single sentence to be meaningful and without repetition - and invariably end up with something quite unreadable. After having presented a thought of note, give your readers at least a few lines of filler to let it sink in and allow their receptiveness to be restored. Conventional motives, right down to single epitheta, help tremendously in making a poem readable and allowing the reader to appreciate whatever is novel about it. No idea why modern poetry seems to hate convention as a matter of principle.

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