It's a shame that so many people  have a bias against poetry.   Stems most likely from grade school or middle school where the teachers hammered out iambs on the desk with a shoe, like Krushchev.  And you, poor idiot, felt like you were the only one who couldn't hear it.  Then there came the dreaded discussion of symbols, where the teacher said, "Let's take it apart."   The poem became a barometer of stupidity (yours!) 

     I'd love to do some workshops on losing the "Fear."  We would immerse ourselves in the gorgeous sounds of poems.  We'd let the music enter us.   That's where my first love began, with poetry.   And that taking in of the poem is sensual--if not sex education, sense education!  mk