Constance La France Poet Verse

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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


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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

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Constance La France October 24, 2018 at 9:46 AM Thanks Line, Carol, Tom, and James for the comments and congrats, so appreciated ~

James Inman October 22, 2018 at 4:05 PM Nice BW.

Tom Cunningham October 22, 2018 at 1:48 PM Well written D.H. ,this contest threw a lot of soupers, I got my idea from Taai, he wrote a bit of nonsense. so I just followed suit lol. Tom.

Line Gauthier October 22, 2018 at 10:28 AM Congrats on creating a well penned poem and still meeting the criteria for this most challenging contest. Superbly done. Congrats on your win, Constance.

Constance La France October 19, 2018 at 6:12 PM Thanks Andrea and ML for liking my poem, yes would it not be great if we could just throw form and syllables away and just be ~

M. L. Kiser October 16, 2018 at 5:40 PM I think we should all be a bit contra; if we just took a day and wrote contra; we might come up with some new and fascinating forms of our own? Luv'd the piece.

Andrea Dietrich October 16, 2018 at 5:15 PM You did great, Constance. I do not have a clue what to do for this one but I see you took up your pen and just made a whirlwind out of it! You might say no to metaphors but I see them in this awesome writing!