Are you attracted to eleven or more?

Should 21st Century poetry For the new minds of a culturally bombarded generation Be limited from 3 to 7 lines? Before you answer To me personally, even though to answer, makes my Heart aches I like reading poetry built around subtlety Concealed layers or secretive depths Relatable interchangeable meanings Powerful raw stuff that sometimes leaves your eyes wet Unearthed within deciphering their carefully crafted imagery or subtext 3 to 7 lines of reading, might sound like heaven, but I'm old school Give me Lord Byron Shelley or Keats But I guess Like an Ode to a Nightingale Maybe that's the beauty of poetry as She walks in Beauty And like To a Skylark It must sing So I can only hope new generations enjoy poetry, so it continues to thrive and still live Within whichever form, and exciting tales that will continue to make their own hearts beat With all it can give But for me Reading deep poetry Feels like sitting briefly, metaphorically, underneath a Cherry Blossom Tree Enjoying a delicious drop of spiritual tranquility Are you too, old school and what emotional fluctuations resonate with you? Are you a three to seven or more like: Eleven or more is heaven Reader or writer Who enjoys late all-nighters (C) Copyright John Duffy