The Challenge of Poetry

I'm in the process of moving my blogs to Google's Blogsite.  The following post was originally dated December 5, 2016.

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As a writer, poetry is a most challenging endeavor.  However, not all poetry is good poetry.  The classic rules of meter, rhyme, and structure are ignored in much of the writing today.  While the classic forms of poetry should not shackle the writer, neither should they be ignored.  Free-form has its place, but writing without some modicum of discipline is often just print on a page – in fact, the lack of form and structure often detracts from the writing.

Excerpt from "Poet of the Park", which can be found at:

http://bit.ly/GTSmith555