I like a good poem
one with lots of fighting
in it. Blood, and the
clanging of armour. Poems

against Scotland are good,
and poems that defeat
the French with crossbows.
I don't like poems that

aren't about anything.
Sonnets are wet and
a waste of time.
Also poems that don't

know how to rhyme.
If I was a poem
I'd play football and
get picked for England.

- A good poem, Roger McGough

Probably what is good or bad poem is subjective since different people like different sort of poetry. Someone once said that poetry is the shortest way of saying things. It is also nicer looking on a page than prose. What poetry should be is something that allows for room to think and dream. Perhaps you learnt a poem by heart to show how much you like it. But then, you have to like it enough at first glance to be able to learn it by heart. So what is a poem that you will learn by heart?