Hi again,
This is all I am going to say further on this piece. I am disappointed by the many knee jerk reactions to my ambiguity. Three things that I insist to be true are: one, that far and away rhyming poetry has been much more belittled and subject to aspersions for decades now than has been free verse. Free versers are not some poor beleaguered minority who need to react with snide smug superiority. You already own the current world of poetry. Why can’t you be happy with that? I am relatively certain that day by day the poets of the past are being shoved farther out of sight. Why are current poets so easily insulted? Perhaps the issue raised strikes a particularly vulnerable nerve??? And two, does anyone know what “accept on faith,” means? That is what my N tells poets who have been fearful of rhyming to do. If you need help understanding the phrase, it means to believe something without evidence, without logic. Anyone calling for me to prove what my N says has no reading comprehension skills and their comments are not worth me further addressing. Oh, I also appear to have offended some who believe they have perfect rhyming skills. I can only say that I am happy for you. And three, no critique here has any legitimate business in trying to stifle subject matter. If you want to do more than help the poets here say better what they want to say, you should go find a chat room or a discussion board. Now, anyone that wants to sling more insults and have the last word, please do, because I am out of here.
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