cody-edwards

What Constitutes a Poem Nowadays?

Jun 7, 2026

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tyler-kelley-1

helen

To me, it's anything expressed in writing that has the backing of emotion... it doesn't have to rhyme but it does have to keep time...

This is well expressed but perhaps, it might be classed as a poem if you would have mentioned the duck that was down on it's luck because it left the safety of the pond and in the muck, it got stuck which led it to exclaim F...!

lol

I think fuck is so underused in poetry ;-)