(January 18, 2021 at 11:38 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Find what you like and pursue more of that.
Avoid what you don't like.
Agreed, but herein lies the difficulty to an extent.
Endlessly looking at dedicated poetry forums, only to find that it's free verse or nothing. Unmitigated pretentious crap in a tiny, barely-readable bold font, trying to disguise the fact that they have no interest in the art. A cop-out.
I can accept free verse as a form of the art, but why the deluge?
Personal tastes are sacrosanct - but that won't stop me calling crap crap.
[ODE TO FREE VERSE]
Verbal diarrhoea
oozing
down
the
page
It meets the criteria of concentrating the thought, and allowing the tongue to roll and savour the opening line.
Perfect.
