[Borges]

Is that your mantra? The English poetic tradition is massive and renown. If you’re claiming the Shakespeare sonnets, Paradise Lost, Donne, Keats are not good poets you’re full of beans.

[Borges]

PL obviously is a poem and not a poet.

[ganeemead]

There is no real grammar in English (English generally uses word order and prepositions in lieu of grammar) and hence no large body of words which rhyme in any natural sort of way. The limits wrt word order make trying to write poetry in English sort of like trying to play tennis in a straight jacket.

Other than that, Shakespeare was the world's greatest dramatist but a mediocre poet by any normal standards.

"Born aloft on ebon wings,
a raucous note, his song he sings
Caw Caw, Caw Caw!", a cry of fear
unpleasant to the farmer's ear..."

You call that poetry??