Poetry in Motion

Let me just say first off that I am not a big fan of poetry; I'm more of a prose gal, novels especially.

With that being said, I came upon a cool poem by Nikki Giovanni in my Web travels that I think meets my (highly idiosyncratic) notion of good poetry:

Choices

Here is one of my all time favorite poems by W.B. Yeats:

When You are Old

I was going to write more on what makes a good poem for me, but I spent so long trying to find decent links to those two poems that now I'm just going to forget it.