What makes a poem good?

Once I write something, it's not up to me to tell people what it's about. I'm not big on explaining.

But it is still about what you say it is about, regardless whether they get it or not. If they get somethign you didn't intend, that's fine, i'm with you, I don't really care. However, the piece is still what you meant it to be, not what they found there. And if they were too lazy, or like me too incompetent, to figure it out, that speaks to a lacking in them as audience. Unless of course, as a writer, I didn't give them enough to figure it out. For eample, 3 disconnected images and a title that doesn't really clarify.

• stephan