Poetry

The only kind of poems I care for are ones that rhyme. Poems that do not rhyme are little more than obfuscated prose, and deliberately introducing unclarity in expression seems to me a pointless exercise.

I also prefer funny poems over serious ones, and short poems over long ones. For these reasons, limericks are my favorite forms of verse. The fact that they are usually ribald only adds to their charm. A limerick cannot succeed at being humorous unless it employs some interesting wordplay or ends in an unexpected fashion, but they are still pretty easy to compose.