Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Formless

Poetry
When stripped of all its gloss, glamor
Does it still shine as bright?
Does it gleam? Does it glitter?
Without need to conform,
With rhyme and rhythm stripped away,
Can it still evoke music,
Melodies to carry the thoughts, the mind
Elsewhere
To places where imagination prances about, dancing to a pretty tune?
I like to think so
And I'd like for you to think so, too

Meter matters, but not in its regularity
Rhyme is sublime when not obstructive to flow
Flow
An ever-important facet, that
A current to carry the weight of your words
That they might not grow heavy and drag your poem with their bulk

Poetry
Liquid language
Emphasis from repetition
How much is too much?

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You like words. You like flow. We get it!
Would it pain the pretentious poet to perhaps place a period at some point?

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