What makes a poem good?

" Now, this has been quite an enlightening thread to say the least. Wouldn't it be just totally awesome if we all would spend this much time with each others poetry, making comments, suggestions, and asking questions? That is where the real learning of poetry lies(at least in my humble opinion anyway).
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Rene' "

 Actually, I think both are necessary. Poets learn very little to nothing from comments if they don't have context. This time is just as important as time spent with each other's poetry. In fact, reading draft-poetry and the type of poems posted on this site and many others isn't really a supplement for reading published, vetted poetry. 

• stephan