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I'm a linguist AND a writer at heart, so I'm incredibly biased about this subject. I find all languages to be beautiful (some more definitely than others, of course) and would be hard pressed to say on is more "poetic" than others. I think western artists are just as capable at writing "cryptic" and "poetic" lyrics as Asian people. Do I hear many such lyrics from Western artists? Not really, but I don't go looking for them.
Of course, translations also play a big part in this discussion. There is no way you could completely, without a doubt translate an Asian song directly into English. Even if the song does rhyme in the Asian language, it won't translate that way. Some lines will also be longer or shorter than their English counterparts. This makes some translations rather jarring and "different". A lot of Japanese lyrics read like poetry to me, but I wouldn't be surprised that if you translated English lyrics into Japanese that the same could also apply.
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