The Eternal Argument

[billy]

im with you jagger i just write because thats what i do, and i enjoy doing as well. plus i know i can put a few words together that sound cool

Yeah. I don't know enough to call them free-verse or whatever the other one she said. Or possibly whatever other classifications may exist.

imagine you love ice cream, imagine your in an ice cream shop with a 100 flavours you've never tasted before and 1 flavour you have tasted. which one one you chose? most would try a new flavour. after a while you've tasted them all and decide vanilla with choco chip is the best. do you stop eating all other flavours? no, and that's how it should be with poetry. work with the flavour you enjoy but keep working with the other flavours too. imagine how many new flavours you can create by mixing some of the 100 hundred flavours there are. imagine all the different topping you can try. the problem leanne is writing about is the choosing of one ice cream with no toppings and never enjoying any of the others. it's one of the main reasons why different styles of poetry has become so secular. people nearly always start out writing shitty rhyme poetry, don't stick with it till they're proficient at it and them move on to none rhyming poetry because they think it easier or somehow it makes them a better poet. one thing i'll guarantee is this; if you write shitty rhymed poetry, you'll probably write shitty free or blank verse. all the styles of poetry teach you how to write poetry, knowing how to do one style well gives you a grounding for learning how to do another style well.

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definitely, for instance you're one those bastard poets who always write narrative stuff ain't you? that's not poetry, that's fuckin prose. just kidding wiv yer jack (i love your stuff)

Is there really fighting between factions? Do militant free versers throw petrol bombs through the windows of rhyming poetry circles, reducing them to a mist of viscera and Frost, while rhymers sneak up on free versers and shank them with fountain pens? Just kidding, I know what you mean. Really I see it as an extension of how in childhood you try allying yourself to one movement, band or whatever to give yourself an identity. Like when I decided that I'd only listen to Joy Division and X-Ray Spex while reading "hardcore" 90s novels Some people never grow up. Thank you for the read, Leanne, like all your "for fun" poems it was sarkily funny