When writing poems there is no right or wrong.
It may be plain or sound just like a song.
Heroic couplets aren’t the only way.
Yet people always have to have their say.
It may be perfect, it may be not.
Just lose a syllable
Or go completely
Free.
Read unnamed samples of some classic works and you will see
That often you can add the names yourself.
They are distinctive.
A Shakespeare,
A Keats,
A Milton
Or a Yeats.
What matters is whether a poem works,
In some way,
At least for yourself.
Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 5:44 AM UTC
When writing poems there is no right or wrong.
It may be plain or sound just like a song.
Heroic couplets aren’t the only way.
Yet people always have to have their say.
It may be perfect, it may be not.
Just lose a syllable
Or go completely
Free.
Read unnamed samples of some classic works and you will see
That often you can add the names yourself.
They are distinctive.
A Shakespeare,
A Keats,
A Milton
Or a Yeats.
What matters is whether a poem works,
In some way,
At least for yourself.
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