02-16-2013, 05:33 AM
Agreed. I think in poetry, less is more. Try and remove extraneous words. Often times, these come to me as prepositions. "I," "but," "and," , etc. If you can convey the same message without the word, do so. Sometimes you can't, and that's fine. For example, I think "alone now," could work better than "I am alone now"

