Of the poets you've listed, only have I genuinely enjoyed Stallings' work, and even then her poems concerning more modern things like Jetlag and Jigsaw Puzzles are not of interest to me. There is just... almost nothing in modernity I find enjoyable or even remotely worth my time. And I certainly can't enjoy a poem about the discourse, much less hope to write one. Medieval and ancient poems just appeal to me more; the way they sound, their mannerisms, their similes, their invocations to deities (Pagan or otherwise), the religious awe, the complexity of their speech, etc. To me, it's like comparing a candle to the chariot of the Sun.
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