Free verse (n.) is like swimming without lanes, where the fast ones still finish first.
Free verse (n.) asks the reader to supply the rules the writer refused to.
Free verse (n.) leaves the writer one decision, where the line ends, and it now carries everything the meter used to.
Free verse (n.) is like swimming without lanes, where nothing stops you and nothing tells you when you have drifted.
Haiku (n.) is unsatisfying in that you just get started and then
Haiku (n.) is an open door that looks shut.
Haiku (n.) is a limerick that doesn't make you laugh.
A Haiku (n.) is, when good, able to humble a poem of a hundred lines.
Japanese poetry (n.) is purer, more essentially poetic, for it focuses exclusively on the intensification and exaltation of experience, while being less distracted by non-poetic considerations than in the poetry of other peoples.
Modem poetry (n.) is difficult not so much because of the poetry itself, but because of what is written about it