I do not like poetry. I will never sit down to read verse on my own. If someone can show me the beauty of a poem I may. I may even like it then. However I will never try on my own. It seems forced to me. There is poetic beauty in other things for me. I love a good metaphore for one thing. I really enjoyed each and every one written in Memoirs of a Geisha. I'm afraid the best one I came up with was on a morning after a particularly big party. I was hung over and I crawled towards my boyfriend and cried 
'Look I'm a chameleon!' When he asked me if it was because i felt like I was changing my color, I replied 'No, it is the way I crawl.'
I still find it amusing.