What are your poetic beliefs and desires?

Question

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CON-VERBOSITY

Is a poem more completer

with a constant rhyme and meter?

…or

can free

be formless

and still

lyrical

?

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Answer 1

TD,

You naughty, naughty poster you.

Poking the fire for sparks and flames?

Poetry is poetry,

none is the same.

Emotions, thoughts, feelings, visions,

all expressed in written form,

all in different hands.

Strong, powerful, and free.

Yes poetry is poetry.

Sam (wink)

Answer 2

I'm not opposed to verse that rhymes,

I often have read worse at times.

A metaphor or simile

Should be approached quite timidly

And one thing must go with 'em

You have to have good rhythm

My uncle from Schenectady

Loves a good synecdoche

His brother, who's from Budapest

Prefers a lilting anapest

But I like poems more tactile

So pen a double dactyl.

Answer 3

I want it all--classical, new, rhyme, form or lack of the above. But I need the words and the images and some kind of meter. Without a heartbeat, poetry dies.

Answer 4

I once would have fought you

Tooth and nail, and rolling pin

To maintain the equilibrium

And put rhyme and metre in.

Now this evangelical site

Has got me

And I feel

Just as happy

To let metre

And rhyme

take a long jump off a short pier

After all I've nothing to fear

Have I?

Answer 5

You've proven it, sir!

Answer 6

I been thinking this same question lately.

My poems are free, formless, and rhyme; but now I am wondering with all these rules,

Are my poems really poems?

Any way it doesn`t matter to me much because I write for myself, not for a crowd.

Can you please give ur honest opinion on this poem?

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Answer 7

Well, free verse isn't really "free" is it? Sometimes I think it's harder to structure than formal verse. In formal verse you usually have a template to work with from the beginning and, while it may be hard to rhyme words all of the time, your word choice is more limited. For me, free verse takes more revision in order to get it sounding good.

To answer the question (in the poem): Yes!

Answer 8

I love free verse poetry and find that yes it sure does have a form and lyric all its own.  Good ears hear it just fine and find free verse quite eloquent in its own way.

Correct spelling and grammar are crucial to me though.  It's too distracting and annoying and the whole beauty of any poem is ruined for me when the piece suffers from such obvious failings.

Answer 9

Syllables that begat words (and vice versa) exist as a poet's tool.....to create a rhythm within any prose or poem, free or rhyming.

Syllables are like musical notes, which the poet/composer arranges in their own way, to create a sound that they wish the world to here.

Sometimes rhymes are included in those musical offerings.

Answer 10

Well you know what my completer answer is...

I'm a poetic abolitionist.

Free all the way although I have no complaint with rhyme and meter done well.

Answer 11

The rhyme and metre the form can free to lyric be.

Answer 12

All people write differently. I write poems with a beat, then put them to music where they become songs.

Answer 13

As long as there

Grammar

And spelling

Be

It is no matter

To me.  

Answer 14

"Hi!",

Good morning to you.

In your case, You could write Freestyle, Rhyme or Martian and it all turns out great.

WELL DONE!

Cheers : )

Answer 15

In this case, no.

Answer 16

That's why the great pumpkin invented more than one style of poetry, you and I can choose what we prefer, or what we prefer may choose us.