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Question: What are your poetic beliefs and desires!?
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Is a poem more completer
with a constant rhyme and meter!?
…or
can free
be formless
and still
lyrical
!?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
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!?
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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!.
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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!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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)



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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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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!.
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"Hi!",
Good morning to you!.

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

WELL DONE!
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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!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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!.
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The rhyme and metre the form can free to lyric be!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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

As long as there
Grammar
And spelling
Be
It is no matter
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In this case, no!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You've proven it, sir!Www@QuestionHome@Com