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I Don'T Know

I DON’T KNOW So what’s wrong with saying “I don’t know” When your poem is good, and feels just so? A technical requirement to state categorically What you have said, albeit metaphorically. Like asking Einstein to place his e=mc2 formula Neatly in the correct position on a page of algebra Otherwise he will lose marks and gain only “C” Or ordering Michaelangelo to sign properly So that his paintings may be in a catalogue And the gallery guide can give her monologue. Or what if Curie was given a low academic gradation For fooling around with radium and radiation? Or Sir Humphrey Davy, remembered with odium For accidentally stumbling on the discovery of Sodium: Imagine his schoolteacher fillng out the report card - “Davy is disorganized and needs to work hard” So please allow poets to say that they do not know The category into which they must go.

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Debra Squyres

Date: 1/18/2012 8:40:00 AM

Love it !!!! I often just simply...don't know...lol or take a guess, though I am attempting to learn some. I am a mere student in the poetic field with no teacher...only a heart with a voice that enjoys writing verse, be they rhyme or not. Poetry is art, like mine or like it not, it's the readers choice, as it is mine to write. Well said !!!

Leo Larry Amadore

Date: 1/18/2012 8:32:00 AM

A reasoned and well-presented argument interestingly written in clear couplets. Many of us post poems that are rather difficult to classify and choose (perhaps, at times, erroneously) to label them "blank verse" or "free verse" when they could be classed as rhymed or alliteration based on internal rhymes or near rhymes...and, in my opinion, there are far too many attempts being made at constructing exotic/esoteric poetic forms instead of concentrating on the sounds and sense of precisely phrased and logically valid creative works...mind and music with all their diversity needs to be encouraged and supported. Good work!