04-01-2006, 10:26 AM
Sorry pal, but you're not a poet until you learn the rules of meter, scansion, extended metaphor, allusion, euphony, etc. Then the modernist poets will tell you to abandon all of those rules, and you'll be back where you started from.
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"I looked up and saw you;
I know that you saw me.
We froze but for a moment
In empathy."-Rise Against