@emmahine I debated tagging you because I didn't want this to come off as an attack or confrontation, cause it's not, but I figured it'd be almost cowardly to not tag you since it was in response to your poem.

Interestingly, I am not lecturing you or anyone. In fact by my 'childish' rhyme, I am clearly making this lighthearted and not aimed at anyone in particular. I like to rhyme, but I can do non-rhyming. I just feel that poetry is more about the rhyme. To me non-rhyming poetry is just prose divided into lines. Any fool can divide a piece of writing into short lines. That is not to say that any fool can write beautiful lines I. The

Sorry, sent before finished. That last should read ... in the first place. That takes an artist and a writer. I am merely suggesting that why not let the writer write prose and call it prose instead of dividing it up. All the old greats wrote in rhyme. Ironically, my rhyme is not in couplets and in the middle of your prose, you have rhymed several phrases whether by accident or on purpose which just goes to show that rhyme is in a poets nature. The only person lecturing here that I can see is you.

@emmahine The internal rhyme was done in more of a sarcastic way, something that's hard to get across via plain text, and the couplets line wasn't directed towards you but rather came from various other experiences I've had with poetry. I think there's a difference between prose and poetic prose and I think it's also a stylistic approach in aesthetic sense occasionally. My favorite amateur poet experiments a lot with different forms, my favorites are the ones she forms into lists. An untraditional approach but combined with the right material it's had some very powerful effects. One of the most popular poems I've ever written came from mimicking that style. I think that even though the old greats wrote in rhyme that's not a required qualification for poetry. I think that poetry is away to paint in a verbal sense, to express emotion in a non linear form and often when I try to do that using rhyme or meter I feel trapped and it always feels like what I produce sounds artificially created to me. This is getting tangential but the point I was thinking about when I was writing was of all the people I know who have criticized free verse with the "oh anyone can write a poem, just hit the enter key a bunch of times" or said that it doesn't take skill or whatever, because that's not what it's about. It's about fitting the intangibility of your emotions into a slightly tangible form and trying to arrange it in a way so that the words paint the inside if you. When I'm crafting art I turn to rythm, form, and meter but when I'm sculpting emotion I turn to free verse.

I don't disagree with anything you've said. I also have to say, I hadn't even read your recent posts before I wrote this so it was in no way directed at you, though yours was a direct attack at mine. I personally think it takes a great writer to write. Full stop. Not anyone can take thoughts out of their head and coherently place them on a page. However, I feel that that is prose and for me poetry is about the rhyme. That is not to say I haven't written free verse. I am not criticising free verse, I just think it is a shame that nowadays to be a great and recognised poem, you need to write short lines without rhyme or capitalisation when many poems written the old way are still brilliant but do not get as much recognition. That is what I call pretentious. Favouring one way over another in the name of modernisation. I have written a book, that is not something anyone could do but anyone could take a passage from my book, divide it into structured lines and say I wrote poetry when it was not intended to be.

Incidentally, you do not divide your free verse into short lines so no prevention here anyway!😉

Pretension, not prevention (damn autocorrect!)

@future_delegate Dude,it's a poem...Get with it 😂

@future_delegate It's very childish to post an Opuss about a poem...Just saying 😂 @emmahine poem was a good poem, and had a little humour, So stop being childish 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Mystical thanks but I'm cool!😉

@emmahine Okai 😉