I've had people enjoy my poetry (both on stage and off), but also not. One of my favorite pieces of trivia is that Seamus Heaney, after winning the Nobel literature prize, famously praised Eminem for truly electrifying a generation... The birth of hip-hop was a rebirth of an ancient attitude towards poetry, which had been softened by the romantics before the futurists set fire to it, but which had been more subtly maintained by songwriters all along.

Most of the time, when we think "poetry" we're thinking of the rhymeless not-quite-poetry that our industrialized education machines screeched at us, or the genuinely good stuff it ruined for us. Even Shakespeare's Sonnets - one of the coolest, hippest, maddest things to ever be produced in the English language! - have been utterly spoiled by generations of misguided educators. It's not the poetry that's the problem.