The word "poetic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is beautiful or evokes emotion in an expressive manner. For example: "The way the sun was setting was so poetic, painting the sky with streaks of orange, pink, and yellow."
The restlessness of youth, the landscape of the north, parents, class, the 1984 miners' strike (over long before she was born), and peripheral glimpses of the animal world are some of the poetic concerns of a collection that never becomes parochial or narrowly autobiographical.
Chesterton was writing a novel about the poetic power of the everyday, and he saw that suburban people might, in fact, be anything at all.
Petersen's images are low-key, luminously beautiful and always poetic.
Not all place words are poetic or innocent, of course.
While commenters were not blind to the problems, the virtues of a great many cities were extolled, sometimes in downright poetic terms.
According to Warner, whose previous work has taken her from the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Metropolitan Opera, "the idea was to ring our island with these encampments, to celebrate the huge poetic tradition of this country.
Yet she captured in poetic language all that is best in the human spirit.
One of the smaller, yet still very pleasing features of the great 1982 World Cup was that even the goal celebrations had a poetic quality.
Quality, inevitably, varies, but so, thankfully, do the themes, concerns and poetic strategies employed.
Whether the language is plain (as in Harry Truman's "Powers of the President" speech) or poetic (as in George H W Bush's inaugural address), a great political speech should speak to you and make you a part of its time and place.
On Blood On The Leaves, Kanye sampled Nina Simone's version of Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit, a darkly poetic song about African-American lynchings, and used it to rap about the VIP area at a basketball game.
