<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413465" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A matter of form for friend leslie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Consistency and symmetry<br> combined with meter seem to be<br>Ingredients of good poetry.<br>Though modernists will disagree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They take a different point of view.<br> Convinced that anything will do<br>That writers need not follow rules<br> and those who do they see as fools<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Consider rhyming is a crime<br> and meter just a waste of time.<br>But can this kind of writing last? <br>like that of poets from the past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don’t dispute they have the right<br> to choose the way in which they write.<br>Poetic prose can be divine<br> but not if it lacks discipline.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your writing must be coherent.<br>A well established precedent<br>If what you write does not make sense.<br>What can be said in its defence? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If readers cannot comprehend<br> the message which you try to send<br>Because your meaning is not plain.<br>Perhaps its time to think again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And realise there must be rules.<br>A craftsman has to know his tools.<br>If he does not then he will fail <br>his efforts all to no avail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some readers will choose poetry<br> and others prose preferably<br>It is your reader’s right to choose<br> to read your writings or refuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you don’t cater to their needs<br> don’t be surprised if no one reads.<br> If how you write is too obscure.<br>Then change your style. The only cure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">30/06/2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413465" data-title="A matter of form for friend leslie de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Consistency and symmetry combined with meter seem to be Ingredients of good poetry. Though modernists will disagree. They take a different point of view. Convinced that anything will do That writers need not follow rules and those who do they ..."></div> </div> </div>

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