Blurring poetic lines.

No one wants to rhyme their poems

the way that rhymes should be.

They choose instead to write free verse,

which leaves no fun for me.  

No one wants to meter poems

the way the feet should go.

They choose instead to add more beats,

which screws up all the flow.  

No one wants to write their poems

and go by all the rules.

They choose instead to throw away

the well-known, chosen tools.  

No one wants to work on their poems,

but this I must confess:

I chose one day to be the same.

Am I as bad? Oh yes!  

Reviews

[Curly Grace]

Between the Lines

I read your rhyme and grin
at the certainty it shows.
You polish all your treasured tools,
while the rest of us strike our own prose.

Maybe that’s the secret we share
we all rebel in our own way.
Some toss the rules high in the air,
some polish them bright every day.

I watch you tend the cadence,
each measure placed with care,
while some of us chase wandering lines
that twist, that turn, that roam anywhere.

And me, I slip between the lines,
letting form loosen, bend, and sway.
I let breath shape the curves and loops,
its pulse a story spun in play.

Not better, not worse, just a way
to listen beneath the page.
I feel the quiet hum inside,
a pulse that laughs, a pulse that sways.

[PaleWriter]

It's even better reading the second time. Love it, Curly. :)

[PaleWriter]

BTW, the site throws me off when I try to go to your page. :(

[Throwing Romeo]

this is fun. counting syllables is math.
but love poems without math is lonely.
good job.
ps.

don't read my poems

[PaleWriter]

lol thank you.

[Sheri3Dx]

Oooo! I love this! I dance to an inner beat always! Free Spirit! This is lovely, liberating! Inspirational! YES!

[PaleWriter]

You're so kind to comment on all my poems, Sheri.
I owe you whenever you decide to post. :)

[Sheri3Dx]

Awwww! You owe nothing, I am delighted to read everything you write.

[PaleWriter]

Thank you. :)

[Sheri3Dx]

A total pleasure.

[John the Baptist]

Good rhyming and meter here. As a rhyming poet myself, I look at it this way: Mandela put "Invictus" on his cell wall, not Ginsberg's "Howl."

[PaleWriter]

haha, good one, John. I agree. Thanks.

[Vicki T.]

I love the rhythm and the rhyme! This is a poem that needed to be written! You say it all and express the poetic fears that many people have. Do I rhyme? Do I write in Iambic Pentameter or Iambic Tetrameter? Who knows? Who cares? Just write!

[PaleWriter]

Thank you very much for your thoughts, Vicki. :)

[To write invisible]

Well I have very sad news for you. Since publication by the season in hell. Poetry became more wild and free. Rules of ancient world are burning on pile of angel wings. Time has come. Time is here. Open your mind and became clear.

[Jade]

so very creative and simply wonderful. Yet this holds truth as well.
Love this write, flows and rhymes so well

[PaleWriter]

Thanks Brandie.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Like this saritirical pop at the freeverse brigade, me included. Although I have tried many forms in my time. This rhymes, flows and is fun.

[Rye]

VERY AWESOME.....
This is so good, I love this write.
So truthful too

[PaleWriter]

thank you.

[Micah]

I like how you choose to write about something that we all can relate to.

[PaleWriter]

Thank you!