The Line

[Todd]

My next poem will open and close with the lines:

The car
made noise
It was awesome

It's nice when you see people apply information to make their poems better.

That awesome part will really make the line pop.

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Someone told me once that you should have every line break point to the central metaphor. I kind of dismissed it at the time as impossible but I think now that ideally this is true.

That would be cool. I'll have to try for that milo. I think it would be hard to do, but worth it the closer you could get to pulling it off. That view would almost always fix it so you did your breaks on important words. There aren't many central metaphors that use "and" as a pointer.

If you read along the end words of what I write, that is pretty much what I shoot for with my breaks.

Milo this will not only then help me enjoy your poems more, but I can't wait to get started reviewing my poems to see what this perspective will open up for me.

It's ideas like these that make a workshop so helpful.