POETIC CREDO guidelines A TENSON TALK poem

CREDO-POETRY IS AN ORAL ART AT ITS BEST WHEN RECITED it then becomes a two-way unique one-off.experience . TRADITIONAL LINE CAPITALISATION RHYME ..in tetrameter (ABBA).YES.. but NOT otherwise as it creates a natural pause (ie it stilts) & thus disrupts the flow WRAP AROUND LINES are a no-no they are not visually conducive to read digitally or otherwise! POETIC NO NO s -acrostic,kyrielle terzanelle villanelle ,pantoum & the 'syllablics' they can be good for a learning exercise,a bit like scales are important when learning the piano but are too contrived & mechanical IMHO for our art form PROSE POETRY ok if visually shaped in open form style* FORMS THAT ALWAYS RING MY BELL shape,emagi & ekphrasis ,imagist Rhyme,alliteration,clerihew,footle&hiku*(both in the singular especially) *OPEN VERSE uses spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols relies upon 'the one breath limitation' this intuitive cadence pemits the 'reader' (reciter) to respond in an interpretative - interplay unique to the ' happening