With whatever form of writing in formal verse
that will best hold this or that subject, whether
that be To deliberately cut yourself off
from a little late coming to the party or
instead slightly left of dolled up, I pretty much
agree with limitations for my poetry. Are any haiku
real poetry? the potential of any poetic 'resources'
seems to me to be very short-sighted at best and helps
keep free verse much more stilted (old? Archaic?) and
more or less random.
I can't understand that quality that can come from writing
the formal poems Zach made about the problem. flow isn't why
anyone respects the bobbing for apples merits of formal
verse (sorry if I'm a fencepost). poetry is more highbrow
and attracts your brain more than Richard Nixon’s famous
“enemies list” of Watergate fame. I think it's rather silly
to cut farts just because it was just silly those days.
You should write formal verse like the neoformalists,
true weirdos in their moment (I just wish they spoke
plaing English), ONLY when there is obviously
many other kinds of forms to employ.
to learn to write pretty bad or negative, it just
depends how you utilize those catholic tastes
in this 'mainstream' poetry (i.e. not post-avant or
experimental) almost like swinging our lances, or swords.
In my opinion, a poet writing now out of this tradition
should avail him- or herself of deliberately wanting
to diminish their palette. As a poet, I want the option
of using any word, form, technique, etc., that will help
me get false limitations about not writing form
across to any reader/listener of the poem, no matter
what the world-at-large thinks!!!
The optimistically divine fireball of Sun was a poet's
priceless dream, and actual words are much more
subtle than that. This just makes sense to me.
Giving myself or exactly what I want to communicate
only writing form is a similar thing to those proponents
of never using words in my own special blend of language
and feelings that I call poetry because they
have been used (for some reason).
I just don't accept these kinds of sonnets or blank verse
or free verse where you might be able to take a poem
out. How well you use this inherent tool potential shows
a lot of mustard, imho.
PS: Although I am totally untrained in the world
of poetry, I know what "feels" right providing
the likes of John Frederick Nims and Frederick
Turner-who tend to churn out the poems with the
greatest entertainment value, a depth of emotion in a smart,
sassy poetry of the contemporary Western civilization-trash
culture and fraudulencies of Gwyneth Paltrow®.
