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My Stand On Free Verse

Poem contests that require free verse I avoid like a plague I entered this one to take a stand Poetry should have meter and rhyme Or to me it’s something else Like an extract from a book It's supposed to have complex patterns Of one sort or another Perceived as a coherent whole Even this definition is gobbledygook Certainly not definitive at all So that where I am, today If free verse is your bag Please don’t be offended Help me to understand

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Debbie Guzzi

Date: 9/11/2012 6:23:00 AM

Hi there..here is what makes Free Verse..Verse and NOT gobbledgook [LOVe that word!] and NOT narrative. Poetic vehicles are used...synecdoche, personification, simile, metaphor, Meiosis, and Hyperbole, alliteration.. ;). You see above [like a plague] is a simile [as a coherant whole] too ;) but above what you have written is uninteresting there is No action no climax..

Charles Sides
Date: 9/11/2012 8:01:00 AM

Debbie, thanks for the response, I will admit I'm not familiar with all the "vehicles" you identified. I do plan to read the responses to your contest; however, I don't expect a "light bulb" to turn on; but I'll try.

Debbie Guzzi
Date: 9/11/2012 6:23:00 AM

you have the who,what,..but no setting and no action. Most of what folks list here as free verse is not free verse..you'd need to read particular poets here to get it. Light & Love

Barbara Gorelick

Date: 9/10/2012 6:20:00 PM

I cant help you..i dont understand either...BG