Consistency and symmetry <br /> combined with meter seem to be <br />Ingredients of good poetry. <br />Though modernists will disagree. <br /> <br />They take a different point of view. <br /> Convinced that anything will do <br />That writers need not follow rules <br /> and those who do they see as fools <br /> <br /> <br />Consider rhyming is a crime <br /> and meter just a waste of time. <br />But can this kind of writing last? <br />like that of poets from the past. <br /> <br />I don’t dispute they have the right <br /> to choose the way in which they write. <br />Poetic prose can be divine <br /> but not if it lacks discipline. <br /> <br />Your writing must be coherent. <br />A well established precedent <br />If what you write does not make sense. <br />What can be said in its defence? <br /> <br />If readers cannot comprehend <br /> the message which you try to send <br />Because your meaning is not plain. <br />Perhaps its time to think again. <br /> <br />And realise there must be rules. <br />A craftsman has to know his tools. <br />If he does not then he will fail <br />his efforts all to no avail. <br /> <br />Some readers will choose poetry <br /> and others prose preferably <br />It is your reader’s right to choose <br /> to read your writings or refuse. <br /> <br />If you don’t cater to their needs <br /> don’t be surprised if no one reads. <br /> If how you write is too obscure. <br />Then change your style. The only cure. <br /> <br />30/06/2009 <br /> <br />http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers<br /><br />ivor or ivor.e hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-matter-of-form-for-friend-leslie/
