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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425612" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Must Rhyme Draw Blank..et Criticism?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s sad to see that rhyming‘s thought redundant<br>by those who’s bark can’t steer poetic star, <br>who grudge, shout out, doubt scope, spout words abundant, <br>seek validation they’d from others bar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Free verse’ disperse if this your fancy tickles<br>to jar the winter of your discontent, <br>with fallen leaves, sheaves garnered, unhoned sickles, <br>with [f]lagging letters, jagged sentiment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rhyme carries more than meaning: music, timing, <br>pattern, play, holistic core explore, <br>link sense to ‘whither’, ‘whence’, nor mummer’s miming, <br>nor lead tread led astray by crow’s harsh caw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Rich rhyme’ or ‘prose’ debate is academic<br>when eight in ten can’t read three thousand words, <br>what counts is sense and sentiments – polemic<br>remains the province of small minds in herds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where wherewithal is lacking for expression, <br>where envy, laziness, or both hold sway, <br>where turn of phrase is tacky, where aggression<br>replaces g[r]ace to interface p[l]ace play</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with music, sounds send pulses through wave spectrum, <br>or melt souls’ polar icecaps with accord, <br>twin chords to cords aligned through playful plectrum<br>with formal training going by the board.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So be it coral strand or fair complexion, <br>dire prophesy or cornet candyfloss, <br>womb, doom and gloom, or in-depth introspection, <br>imagination's never at a loss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus formal sonnet, couplets rhyming gaily, <br>with sunny disposition to the fore, <br>should mirror music, method, context daily<br>evolving outside all one's writ before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In pictogram or beaded decoration<br>in Roman font, linguistic interplay<br>wed words’ harmonic melody’s elation<br>responds to tune the key no words may weigh. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To underline, the savant English written <br>retains both [s]cope and [s]pace for verbal tricks, <br>like Skelton take the Rap, as playful kitten<br>re[th]ink link frames for Caxton’s twenty-six.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where feet and metre merry dance may caper<br>from poets Lake to Blake, have Don[n]e, imPound <br>who’d underscore square thoughts – recycled paper! <br>can hack’s slack style replace paced silver sound? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each line when spun ends up with tails or faces, <br>where tale replaces touch much of the time, <br>such is the paradox which interlaces<br>arguments around repeated rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When fish flew, forests walked, alliteration<br>best impressed stressed message – few could read –<br>mnemonics reinforced the iteration<br>recalling legend, fairy-tale or creed. remember</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now pigs think they have wings above their station<br>maintaining rhyme no R[h]APsody retains<br>while ‘thinaccessible’ becomes negation<br>to mask task’s challenge failed, spite p[r]ose fee pains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If attic muse can ante antic up, wise, <br>prefer cold garret’s ‘ashes and a crust’<br>rehearse blank verse predictions s[l]ick, applies<br>remorseless morse to dash dot hoarse course dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For formal frameworks offer waft and weft which<br>the poet threads with frugal concentration –<br>as filtered light through prism rainbow span stitch<br>hues limitless whose wavelength condensation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">upon cones, rods, retinal flash achieving, <br>imagination infinite invites, <br>refines mind’s focus, - hocus-pocus leaving -<br>versatile, both stimulates excites.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course this discourse could continue weaving<br>until the cows come home from lea poetic, <br>winged leeway granting Pegasus, conceiving<br>examples prosy, - rosy or pathetic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our arguement is: structure, sense, in motion<br>may catalyze emotions more than prose, <br>in multi-mode dimensions, flowing ocean<br>flexible, reflexible, that grows</div><div style="margin:10px 0">crescendo bringing mind and matter’s code a<br>springboard from which rich images may bloom, <br>concluding on note elegant a coda<br>whose aftertaste no waste-land texts assume.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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