@Kahhlos – It seems to me the purpose of poetry, as art, is to “cause effect” (in yourself or others). The only way to be efficacious then is to know your audience.
As for me, I can’t tolerate anything but prose poetry. This is the best example I know of – from the sophomoric, yet highly efficacious, book T.A.Z.
..“A politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.”
This and the rest of it means nothing when you dissect it, but it’s as powerful as it gets to some.
As toward the perceived validity of your words @Kahhlos – it’s not about that relative to the creation. It’s about YOUR satisfaction with the expression of YOUR emotions. Others be damned. You must speak to yourself first. You must find solace in that, otherwise you’re impoverishing the impetus of the creation of poetry.