Contra To the Strictness of Form

I write. That is what I do day and night, write write write but I like to do it outside the lines, the curve and the shape and the pattern, to go against the rules of all poetry! I let my words fly like the birds above. Free and swirling. All the twirling words in my head I send whirling . . . Saying no to metaphors. And all devices that poetry is suppose to need! I say NO NO and NO . . . I need to be free to spin and fling my poems. Here and there. Let them be what they want to be. Not be chained to a form. To a Rule. To convention. To not be restrained by meter or syllables or lineage. Yes, to just be. Joy is to twist, deform, reverse, go verse crazy and way too long I will destroy what should be . . . into what I want it to be _________________________ October 16, 2018 Poetry/Verse/Contra To The Strictness of Form Copyright Protected, ID 18-1071-794-01 All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym. Written for the contest, Contra sponsor, Jesse Rowe Third Place