A muted, earth-tone brown with a bit of olive in it - sometimes set off against a dark purple - is often my default position, but basically I think that if you're a writer you start off with something that you want to say - a thought, a phrase, a particular point or sense - and as the poem develops a good poem will tell you where it wants to go and in a sense find its own way. The form - or lack of form - the structure, let's say - has to support whatever the poem is intended to accomplish, and the poem has to work within the structure. I worry far more about that, and far less about what color is my villanelle.
Content, content, content. Content rules. Piece of cake!
Last edited by Michael Cantor; 08-15-2013 at 09:51 AM.
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