Poetry is an interesting idea. I've been focusing most on stories--written and filmed. In one classification I saw, it mentions epic poems as a type of story, but I think you've hit on something in mentioning these short poetic moments. It's like Annie says in "everyone believes a speckled coffeepot!"
BTW, Frost is my favorite poet. I "get" his poetry (and can even recite "Stopping by Woods" by heart) but don't get most of it. Maybe a feeling, but it's so fuzzy, I feel more confused than inspired.
If you'd like to wax on about this idea of poetry and versimmilitude, I'd be very interested in hearing it!
I appreciate the encouragement, but I was only pointing to poetry as it often reveals the inner working of people's lives and minds. Poetry can reveal or reflect truths in ways other arts cannot, so it is more concerned with truth than with verisimilitude.
I realize the two words are related, but I take verisimilitude to mean "having the appearance of truth". Poetry might take verisimilitude or the appearance of things as a subject in a poem, but verisimilitude isn't what poems are usually after in the area of "truth telling". Film, on the other hand, is much more about appearance than poetry.
Poetry is about many things, including entertainment, truth, beauty, strong emotion, form, facts, history, news events, images, metaphor, music and a whole long list of "more"....
I'm not being short, but it's just way too long a topic to deal with here.
Rayn