Paul Simon is pretty good at poetry I think. I like The Sound of Silence quite a bit as a poem. I think Strange Fruit sung by Billie Holiday is a great poem if not probably a great song (she just had a good delivery of it).
Oh and while I was being a bit sarcastic about Hole and Courtney Love in another thread...I think Violet has good lyrics. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here also seems written well for a poem.
Singers cheat on their meter all the time though with runs and pauses that don't exist in the line. I think if you can read it like a poem and like it, and it doesn't need the singer's charisma to sell it then it's likely a good poem.
Oh and while I was being a bit sarcastic about Hole and Courtney Love in another thread...I think Violet has good lyrics. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here also seems written well for a poem.
Singers cheat on their meter all the time though with runs and pauses that don't exist in the line. I think if you can read it like a poem and like it, and it doesn't need the singer's charisma to sell it then it's likely a good poem.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson