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| 2 | title: On formal poetry | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: onformalpoetry | ||
| 6 | toc: "On formal poetry" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 10 | class: elegies | ||
| 11 | order: 12 | ||
| 12 | prev: | ||
| 13 | - title: Feeding the raven | ||
| 14 | link: feedingtheraven | ||
| 15 | next: | ||
| 16 | - title: I am | ||
| 17 | link: i-am | ||
| 18 | ... | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | | I think that I could write formal poems | ||
| 21 | | exclusively, or at least inclusive | ||
| 22 | | with all the other stuff I write | ||
| 23 | | I guess. Of course, I've already written | ||
| 24 | | a few, this one included, though "formal" | ||
| 25 | | is maybe a stretch. Is blank verse a form? | ||
| 26 | | What is form anyway? I picture old | ||
| 27 | | women counting [stitches on their knitting][knitting], | ||
| 28 | | keeping iambs next to iambs in lines | ||
| 29 | | as straight and sure as arrows. But my sock | ||
| 30 | | is lumpy, poorly made: it's beginning | ||
| 31 | | to unravel. Stresses don't line up. Syl- | ||
| 32 | | lables forced to fit like [McNugget][] molds. | ||
| 33 | | That cliché on the arrow? I'm aware. | ||
| 34 | | My prepositions too---God, where's it stop? | ||
| 35 | | The answer: never. I will never stop | ||
| 36 | | writing poems, or hating what I write. | ||
| 37 | |||
| 38 | [knitting]: roughgloves.html | ||
| 39 | [McNugget]: ronaldmcdonald.html | ||