This discussion is of interest to me because so much of my own output is called "light verse" whether I thought of it that way when I wrote it or not. I've always thought it was just because my poems were
A) Formal
B) Accessible
C) Truthful (on the theory that "mankind cannot stand very much
reality" without laughing).
Anyway, after years of writing "darkly cynical" stuff and being laughed at for my pains, I finally accepted that I was a "light verse" poet &
have been one ever since.
(PS: I'm not in the bakeoff, so it's not me you're discussing).
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