The Divine Nonsense of Jim Wile
Viewing comments for Chapter 3 "What Real Poets Know"A collection of 13 humorous poems
5 total reviews
Comment from lancellot
This is funny. I don't know about free verse not having cadence, some see to, or at least a certain flow. Your attempt certainly seemed to flow off the tongue (and cheek).
Avery inventive post. It put a smile on my face. Well done.
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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This is funny. I don't know about free verse not having cadence, some see to, or at least a certain flow. Your attempt certainly seemed to flow off the tongue (and cheek).
Avery inventive post. It put a smile on my face. Well done.
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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I may not have succeeded in my attempt at free verse, but at least I put a smile on your face. Thanks for the great review.
Comment from prettybluebirds
Hey, I happen to love rhyming poetry. I grew up in the fifties, and most poetry was written in rhyme. I love this silly piece you have penned for us. I got a good laugh from it. Nice work.
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Hey, I happen to love rhyming poetry. I grew up in the fifties, and most poetry was written in rhyme. I love this silly piece you have penned for us. I got a good laugh from it. Nice work.
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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If I can't write free verse very well, at least I'm successful at something: I made you laugh.
Thanks for the great review!
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You did, indeed.
Comment from Sarah Das Gupta
Very honest and amusing. I'm wondering if you might possibly be sending free verse writers up? Seriously, there are so many great poets like Keats and Tennyson who produced wonderful poems which followed all the rules!
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Very honest and amusing. I'm wondering if you might possibly be sending free verse writers up? Seriously, there are so many great poets like Keats and Tennyson who produced wonderful poems which followed all the rules!
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Oh, you're onto me!
I do, though, truly admire well thought out and constructed free verse poems (like your own). But even with free verse it's best to have a few rules: like have a good reason for not using any punctuation, or have a good reason for why lines are broken where they are.
Every word should be carefully selected to impart the right meaning and mood, otherwise it just becomes prose.
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Yes, I totally agree
Comment from royowen
The trouble with free verse, the way they think of it, is that it binds one to the stilted boundaries, the truth of the matter is, they can't write rhyming poetry, they can't really write free verse either, they're reducing poetry to prose, and anybody can do that. Why don't they go back in time and tell Willie Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Yeats, Shelley Lovelace, they're not poets well done Jim, blessings Roy
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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The trouble with free verse, the way they think of it, is that it binds one to the stilted boundaries, the truth of the matter is, they can't write rhyming poetry, they can't really write free verse either, they're reducing poetry to prose, and anybody can do that. Why don't they go back in time and tell Willie Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Yeats, Shelley Lovelace, they're not poets well done Jim, blessings Roy
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Well, I didn't want to be so blunt about it, but I agree with you. Most of it seems very arbitrary--with words all over the place, little punctuation, often no capitals, and strange word choices. Much of it does seem like prose.
Now there are some very good free verse poems, but they are more the exception. I have a feeling that many free verse poets enjoy what they consider the freedom from following any rules, but as with raising kids without any rules, the results are often undesirable.
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I agree Jim.
Comment from Julie G1
Too fun, well done! Rhyming comes naturally to some. These poems clearly convey the poet's message, with effective choice of imagery and language. The use of the graphic also worked well for this reader. I hope you keep on composing such verse.
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Too fun, well done! Rhyming comes naturally to some. These poems clearly convey the poet's message, with effective choice of imagery and language. The use of the graphic also worked well for this reader. I hope you keep on composing such verse.
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Thank you so much! That's all I seem to be able to do :(