using other forms besides iambic pentameter.

[billy]

I'd like to see what people think in regards to poetic theory, and I'd like people to start considering what they are doing when they write so they are not just taking stabs in the dark. I am fairly new to poetry myself and I would like to see some of the newer users educate themselves so we can all start writing real poetry and learn to appreciate this art that is often misunderstood. What forms work and why?

as was pointed out, that's one of the tenets the of this forum and the main reason we have a novice forum. some of the new guys are trying to do just what you ask. the main problem is ....it takes time. i've been writing poetry for a fair while now and i still don't know what the fuck an iambic line of poetry is allowed to be. and here i am (or there i am) in serious saying what is and what isn't iambic pentameter. the new guys guys are writing real poetry, i'm wondering if you mean good poetry? again that takes a long time for many poets, i'm lucky if i get one a year done that's any good. i say the let those new to poetry take all the time they need to learn, to do so with very small steps. more than anything they need to read good poetry and attempt to give feedback, these two things on there own will help improve how they write more than a lot of other stuff. these things give them something to compare what meter, device, form or style they've reached so far, and how they could possibly improve..