10 March 2021

Free versE

Let me write without structure
or rhyme
or insight

This is my free verse
and iT wiLL BE FREE!!
Formed through love and chaos
    with a dash of tiredness

"Free the verse!"

We will chant, with some prominent personalities joining our the cause de jour
Not understanding what we're asking for, but with heart in the right place

Too long have we been held under this rule of meter
Until our verse is free, our minds are not
So restricting is the page on which we write!


Some surgeon poets insist we must carve every line
Not realising the scalpel pen they use is still a tool of butchery!
Carefully controlling which parts of themselves are allowed to bleed onto the page

Be vulnerable and open, poets of tomorrow!!!
Un-couplet yourselves from these shackles

Tell this story in whatever form you can
and forget every cast you have poured your molten ideas into before

Who. Cares. If the form is hard to read
        as long as it is honest
        as long as it is genuine

You will know if the pause is right
And whether the correct word is left
We are winged wordweavers 

    and we are 

    out 

    of 

    our 

    cage!

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