Well, if you check most of my poems, they're a fair bit longer! But yes, poetry can be short too. Once you remove all excesses. And it comes with training.
Besides, it's not like I write my non-poetry like I write poetry. I tend to write extremely at length when it doesn't come to my fiction or poetry, so don't think tendency in one area necessarily translates to the same tendency elsewhere.
Well, if you check most of my poems, they're a fair bit longer! But yes, poetry can be short too. Once you remove all excesses. And it comes with training.
Besides, it's not like I write my non-poetry like I write poetry. I tend to write extremely at length when it doesn't come to my fiction or poetry, so don't think tendency in one area necessarily translates to the same tendency elsewhere.