Here's something I did in a Creative Writing class. I got an A, but this I think demonstrates why I write stories, not poems:
The War of the Worlds
(God bless public domain)
He said the chances of anything from Mars were a million to one.
But still, they come.
Ten cylinders filled with minds much more robust.
Having viewed our gem of a world with envious eyes.
Slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us.
They landed one by one for ten days.
In massive fighting machines they swept us away.
A war of ants against men, bows and arrows against the lightning.
I moved toward the coast and a boat in which to flee .
The heat-ray never more than a moment behind me.
At the coast I was swept away by the crowd.
The last steamer pulling away.
When a fighting machine appeared, and another, and another.
Between them was the lone, grey ironclad, Thunderchild.
She smote them as they came, but her fate was sealed.
The earth belonged to the Martians.
It had been a slaughter, not a war.
I searched for safety where none existed.
When I heard the sound of a fighting machine wailing.
The wailing ended, and I found the machine, its master dead.
It was not gunpowder and cannons that ended those giant brains.
It was bacteria, the littlest things, that ended the Martians.
As over the years had man paid for his immunity.
For men neither live, nor die, in vain.
"They are calling to us, can you hear them?... It's beautiful," Lieutenant Nathan Hale.