Choosing a Form

[billy]

   Since becoming interested in poetry I have been drawn to learning about different forms. In some of the books I've read, they suggest that some forms are better suited for one type of poem. For example, Haiku has rules about content and therefore excludes some topics, but free verse is unrestricted and can be about anything.

My question is this: How do you decide what form you will write a poem in?

personally i decide to write a poem with form or a free verse. as long as it works and i'm in the mood i don'y really care. i enjoy the haiku because while being siple in it's idea. it's quite a twat to get it spot on. the senryu is a lot easier and forgivin. a half decent one can be knocked out in a short time. even haiku can once you get the hang of it. there hand for me because they tend to get the juices flowing and the head thinking with some kind of order. often i'll do a haiky to clear to fog, then i'll have a go at whatever's in the air. i nearly always try my hand at the poetry lessons even if it just a single poem.

i think with form
i decide;
today i'll do a sonnet
or what ever is
on the lesson schedule.
i do prefer free verse
because i'm personally able
to en-jamb better.
with it,
free verse poems
just seem to appear
though i do have to redo the do
in order to get some
rhythm runs to cue within
a line of inner rhyme.