Poems don't have to be sophisticated at all. In fact, those poems that are aware of themselves as poems never fit to my taste. I mean, many lines that are memorable are those that feel native to your own brain. I love familiarity in poetry.
Examples
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an old one You may have seen this one before. Maybe a bad example, as wheelbarrows and chickens are distant from us in the age of the computer. However, a clever poem such as this is successful at bringing an image to mind and projecting its meaning over it. Do you notice which lines point to the meaning of the wheelbarrow?
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a new one Sam Pink is an artist I've been following since I read his short story "The Ceremony". I think you know exactly what he means in this poem. It's not a head-scratcher, this one. Still, it has solemnity.
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from plebpoet Another poem from the collection I've been sharing. Just a series of genuine questions I had to put down on paper for clarity of mind, then clipped and shaped into the form a poem might have. The photos are from my phone. The female subject is a friend who would go get coffee with me and entertain answers to these questions.