Do you enjoy poetry?

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well, there's certainly nothing wrong with looking for poetry that includes a narrative if that helps you focus. beowulf, the norse/icelandic sagas, epic greek poetry.. that sounds like a very enriching curriculum if you're looking to include it for your students.
not every style of poetry is for everyone. i'm not sure you need to teach yourself to appreciate it. perhaps it's just not for you. no shame in that, i'd say.

One of my favourites. It has been stuck in my head since my son was born a month ago.

Good Bones
By Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real s**thole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

I like many different types of poetry.

Even "slam poetry" can be decent---though I don't like the method of delivery.

Yes.

Finding I could process some of the awkward emotional stuff by writing poetry was something I regard as a great step forward in growing up as an adult.

If he ain't got a car he get caught a'þe bus stop;
no need to hesitate, lick shots when þe bus stop
slugs hi'þe roof an' rip ðrough þe bus top
caught 'im in þe dome an' leave 'im wið a bust top



I like when one can incorporate long strings of multi-syllabic rhymes and creative wordplays on top of just having long strings of words with similar stress patterns with a simple rhyme in the terminal position.

Bear wið my elimination of þe th diagraph, I've been paying too much attention to þe difference between voiced and voiceless dental frictives.

Personally, I never understood poetry. This may be on account of AS/HFA - that is difficulties understanding content which expresses human emotion. I may also be biased; in that poetry is the worst-means for writers to earn money. The Autism Spectrum can be characterized by understanding content too literally. Understanding poetry might be seen as those opposites of literal interpretations - hence opportunities to lose track of what poetry is being said/recited.

The example of poetry that slightly piques my interest is Meta-poetry; that is self-aware poetry about poetry and /or writing poetry.

Examples enclosed: https://mseffie.com/assignments/poem-a- ... oetry.html

I think I'm have gone insane;
My brain ain't been the same after I f****d with Tame One.
If you think I'm rap Marilyn Manson you should send the thank letter to Mrs. Hanson

Mostly not.

I'm one of those aspies who don't naturally think verbally.

Patterns, rhymes, counting, puns even -- OK!

Contexts, 'common symbols/drama/bleeding/vibe/etc', evoking imagery -- OK! For most part.

Between the lines, innuendo, etc... -- Unknown. Sometimes I do sometimes I don't.

Slangs, certain terminologies -- It takes some study (if I could even integrate it) before clearing things up from a bunch of noise-words to something a bit coherent...

Niche or less inclusive forms of References (like to references from certain media) -- That's when I start to fall really short...

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