It is verbs and nouns that carry the poem. A poem or a story has a destination. If you take your eyes off the road, you will end up in the wrong place. Stay with the story. If you try to fly a poem directly into abstraction, avoiding the REAL things you have smelled, seen and heard, you will crash and burn.
Poems lift off when they work and they work because they start on the ground, where things happen.
Anybody can talk air, but nobody will listen. Fit the fuel to the vehicle. Grass for horses, gas for cars. Don't try to impress with over-writing. Paint the picture and the poem will live.