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Originally Posted by KaneED
I don't like poems that are simply prose spread out over several lines.
****ing annoying, how are they different if they're simply prose on several lines instead of just one?
Am I
Writing
A Poem Now
If I Do This
Apparently
They Say
I Am
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They,
as a matter of fact,
haven't the slightest clue,
about poetry,
Jack.
Free form does not make a poem. It is more or less asthetics or has a bearing on the intended rhythm. Look at Kerouac. He was a madman when it came to form. Not a lick of orthodox meter, but among the worlds most renouned beat poets.