As an English professor, and as a technical writer, I love short poems. Just as a picture is said to be worth a thousand words, a few good lines of verse can pack as much emotional content as a whole paragraph of ordinary prose.
Poets generally tend to agonize over each and every word.
When a poem only uses a few dozen words, each one becomes extremely important. Love long has taken for his amulet One perfect rose. Ah, no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose. But liquor Is quicker. The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex.