The article examines the process of the historical development of Komi poetry in the 1946-2020s. The author's composition of several periods is presented in detail: the first post-war decade, 1960-1980s, 1990-2000s. The closest attention is paid to the characteristics of the work of the leading poets of these years: I. Vavilin, S. Popov, F. Shcherbacov, A. Vaneev, V. Popov, G. Yushkov, A. Misharina, V. Timin, G. Butyreva, A. Luzhikov; their main genre and thematic preferences are determined. For the first time, the description of the unified process of development of Komi poetry in the second half of the 20 - first quarter of the 21 centuries includes the newest period of the 1990s - 2000s in its connection with previous periods. A review of poetic works (poems and verses) over several decades led to the conclusion that Komi poetry since the end of the Great Patriotic War has gone through a difficult, ambiguous of development. It suffered significant losses during the repression of the 1930s and during the war years, but was able to recover and reach a new level of development. During these years, several generations of authors took part in the development of Komi poetry, turning in their work to the development of a variety of topics, genres, forms. The process of mastering by poetry in different periods of genres of European and Eastern literatures is especially noted: rubai, sonnet and wreath of sonnets, vers libre, tanka, hokku. The development of such a major lyric-epic genre of poetry as a poem is traced as one of the most important in the work.