Visual Poetry Today. They are not merely poems, but they are certainly poems. The child of both poetry and the visual arts, visual poetry has a double set of interests and its forms are myriad. The child of both poetry and the visual arts, visual poetry has a double set of interests and its forms are myriad. We are living through what might be the greatest age of visual poetry.. jHegaf by Geof Huth.  Some visual poets continue to write traditional poems that require a certain visual context in which to properly meanâa context so important that it serves as a critical component of a unified text.