My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
One is always nearer by not keeping still.
Many of my poems are not sexual.
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.