[Nick McRae]

Nemo I was going to wait until this thread settled down to ask, but you don't seem to need much help, so I'm just going to ask it:

Do you find that writing in meter makes it difficult to reveal the core of a poem? Or, in other words, to write topically in a clear way? This is a beautiful poem that I greatly enjoyed, but I'm not able to discern exactly what you're wanting to say. And I'm curious if that's just generally difficult to accomplish with meter, rhyme schemes and the like, in your opinion.

I ask as I've been taking stabs at metrical poetry lately, but my poetry has been so traditionally idea-centric that it feels like there's a conflict between how I'm used to writing, and how meter forces me to write.

Does it sound like I'm on the right track with this? Would a metrical poem need to lean heavier on the side of 'beauty for it's own sake'?