<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414255" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Preference</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Modern proponents of free form.<br> Do not accept that poetry<br>has certain rules and must conform.<br>Or it becomes mere anarchy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anything goes just will not do.<br>It’s either poetry or prose.<br>One must give credit where it’s due<br>They both have merit I suppose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prose poetry cannot exist.<br>An oxymoron obviously<br> but modern writers will insist<br>that what they write is poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They aren’t content to call it prose<br> well written and quite beautiful.<br> Care taken with the words they chose<br> describing something wonderful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although so many writers try.<br>There’s very few achieve their aim.<br>They do not stop to wonder why<br>But simply write more of the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Make no attempt to learn the rules<br>Meter and rhyme a mystery<br> they lack the simple basic tools <br>You need for writing poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem is a message to<br>transmit your ideas and your thoughts.<br>So other folks can share them too.<br>If you can write them as you ought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Simplicity and clarity<br>are prerequisites for our art.<br>The finest kinds of poetry<br> are written from the poets heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mere strings of words in random lines<br> are neither prose nor poetry.<br>Each of us knows what he defines<br>as being his idea of poesy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rest my case I make no plea<br>I merely state my preference.<br>Applicable only to me<br>I do not wish to cause offence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6-Jan-08</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=414255" data-title="My Preference de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Modern proponents of free form. Do not accept that poetry has certain rules and must conform. Or it becomes mere anarchy. Anything goes just will not do. It’s either poetry or prose. One must give credit where it’s due They both have merit I..."></div> </div> </div>

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