21 October 2022

igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
I think
a few words
however deep
however heartfelt
do not transmute
by some newline alchemy
into poetry
merely by layout.



(That may be superficially 'deeper' than the sort of tumty-tum doggerel I can also turn out with slightly more difficulty, but it is so trivially easy that I don't believe it counts.)

Splitting your sentence in lines down the page
And calling it poetry fills me with rage;
I admit the existence of blank verse and prose,
But free verse is more tricky than either of those.

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igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
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