[Mary Meriam]

In Met, Nemo posed the question:

...in a way isn't all formal verse an overworking of thought, an after-the-fact architecture?

I feel the opposite is true. Most often, I wonder if my poems are actually "about" nothing more than the form I used to write them. When I start to write a poem, I'm not sure at first what form it will be. But I decide (or the poem decides) by the end of the first line.

What do you think? What is your approach to form?