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[Serious] The pants that is free-verse
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The pants that is free-verse
Certainly there is immense merit in some free verse e.g. Things Men Have Made, by DH Lawrence (1929)

But for the most part, all over the internet, it's modern stuff like this:

She came through the cracked
paint as one and instantly I

knew her blossom
from Ages ago that whirled the eternal aluminium in starlight and un-

abrogated mental

passion before
the overwhelming asylum
thought
that if...

she Was indeed feline
or...

the termination of incessance.

And the sycophantic forumites applaud with, Ooh, you're such a good poet!

I really don't get it. It seems to be an abrogation of the art to neglect form, construction, framing, rhyme, rhythm, metre, sense et. al. Chuck out a stream of incoherent and disjointed consciousness or a bad wet dream and call it poetry. And get the plaudits.

Anybody doing free-verse who can address the apparent nonsense? I don't want to dismiss a form of art if there's something to glean. Always willing to learn.
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The pants that is free-verse - by RozzerusUnrelentus - January 16, 2021 at 11:19 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by onlinebiker - January 16, 2021 at 12:13 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by brewer - January 16, 2021 at 1:11 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by RozzerusUnrelentus - January 16, 2021 at 3:17 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by brewer - January 16, 2021 at 5:46 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 16, 2021 at 6:11 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by arewethereyet - January 16, 2021 at 1:25 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 16, 2021 at 1:30 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 16, 2021 at 1:58 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by RozzerusUnrelentus - January 17, 2021 at 4:27 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by Belacqua - January 17, 2021 at 7:57 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by RozzerusUnrelentus - January 17, 2021 at 8:52 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by Belacqua - January 18, 2021 at 8:13 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by Angrboda - January 17, 2021 at 11:38 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by The Grand Nudger - January 18, 2021 at 8:32 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by Rhizomorph13 - January 18, 2021 at 11:38 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by RozzerusUnrelentus - January 18, 2021 at 12:00 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2021 at 7:15 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by onlinebiker - January 18, 2021 at 11:43 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by Rhizomorph13 - January 18, 2021 at 1:37 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by RozzerusUnrelentus - January 19, 2021 at 6:36 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by Rhizomorph13 - January 19, 2021 at 11:42 am
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2021 at 12:32 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by Rhizomorph13 - January 19, 2021 at 12:44 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2021 at 1:51 pm
RE: The pants that is free-verse - by Sal - January 19, 2021 at 2:01 pm

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