Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Service is best known for his poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" from his first book Songs of a Sourdough (1907; also publiRobert W. Serviced as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses). "These humorous tales in verse were considered doggerel by the literary set yet remain extremely popular to this day. ".