Yes. It's my most favourite as well~
Poetry helped me get through it therapeutically, too. I'm still quite cynical, heh. At least not so pessimistic.
Form is quite tough as well as abstract. I really admire poets who can pull off villanelles, sonnets, etc naturally. Free verse just feels, well, freer to me. XD Oh wow, are your elegies based off real people? Or do you take the subject of death metaphorically? I've never tried one before.
True, true. I like writing haikus, and in the same vein, senryus. They give me filler space when I'm dry but itching to write something. Short yet sweet.