I take notice of what RiverTalker said

For if I don’t he’ll cut me de... cold

If he tells me, “No rhymes,”

I won’t waste my ti...hours

I won’t count my syllables or measure my lines

No

I’ll write on past the point where I should have stopped and continue as long as I want because why not?

Poetry free-form

Is free from rules

Not like what I learnt at schoo...college

Take that rhyming couplet and fling it out the door

Iambic pentameters I’ll learn to abho...seriously dislike

Why, even blank verse will leave me cold

Sonnets – yuk – I tell you I’m not so...convinced.

I’ll give up rhythm

It’ll be hard, but I know I can do it.

I lose it by accident often enough.

Dactyls – I never knew what they were anyway.

Sounds like some kind of dinosaur to me.

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Author guidance for This poem

The newly created anti-form called "Freedom Verse"... nothing can rhyme and the meter must be impossible to count and the "syllabification" can be of any integer (not fractions! unless you want to)...YET it must make sense to someone in the universe. But only if you want to ...

updated May 8 '09 by TheRiverTalker