Comment from schatzling

Excellent

I enjoyed reading your free style and I understand and actually agree with what you shared.
I am honored you chose my art to accompany your writing. I believe they DO go together and rather quite nicely. Thank you .
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us, the reader.

 Comment Written 01-May-2018

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reply by the author on 01-May-2018

Hi schatzling, Thank you for your review and I really liked your artwork it gave two sides of the image and I thought it fitted the two styles so that is why I chose it so Thanks for having it there Cheers Christine

Comment from Whispering_ink

Exceptional

I absolutely love this! I also have to say I agree with you! I use rhyme in almost all of my poetry. It just adds an element and gives it such a good flow. This was great write and I look forward to reading more of your work! Happy Rhyming!!

 Comment Written 30-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 30-Apr-2018

Hi Whispering ink Thank you so very much and I am thrilled for your six stars and For looking forward to more of my work
Love to rhyme all the time.
Meter tight keeps it tight
Let if flow then you'll know
If they read you'll suceed

Ha Ha Cheers Christine

Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

A very well-written rhyming poem about free verse. I like sometimes to just go for a free verse poem just to let the thoughts flow naturally, it works most of the time when a subject is difficult to do in rhyme or meter.

 Comment Written 30-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 30-Apr-2018

Hi Sandra Thank you for you read and review I know sometimes free verse just happens but it has to make sense and becwell written And I have read some wonderful free verse here some writers just havecthe talent this style others havent so it is horses for courses I suppose Cheers Christine

Comment from Jeffrey L. Michaux

Excellent

I really like this. You've done an excellent job in presenting and writing about this style of poetry. I really enjoyed reading this well written poem about this writing style. I've not known much about different writing styles until I joined this website a few months ago. I would just write. I've learned quite a few things since joining this site. Well done Chrissy!

 Comment Written 29-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 29-Apr-2018

Hi Jeffrey, Thank you and like you I used to just write also my poetry comes out like a meter and rhyme ai cound syllables on my fingers to get the right sound. Havong joined FS mearly 3 years ago I have written hundreds of poems and entered quite a few contest and have even won a few Wow what a thrill to actually win my first one. I did not even know what a Stanza was or metrical feet i.e pentameter, tetrameter iambic never heard of that language let alone all the different styles except a limerick Ha Ha let alone Haiku
But I have learnt so much from some wonderful writers who have fanned me, me little old Chrissy from Australia wow and I also now have 3 Haiku published in the Anthology of Haiku by Amazon all because I did a course here on how to write them and we managed to get a Haiku Anthology published
I have learnt and still learning many styles and find the challenges really great and makes me stretch myself and think .
Anyway I am sure you will enjoy being here it is expensive though to promote all the time however I justify my spending as I still work and this is my hobby
Hope thos is helpful And thank you for you kind words for my poem I do like rhyme best though LOL Cheers Christine

Comment from meeshu

Excellent

this is great, sort of a sardonic poke in the ribs of the "free verse intelligentsia". you have over-cooked your rhymes just for effect, it seems. what would really sell it would be a last stanza of "High-Brow Gibberish".......meeshu

 Comment Written 29-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 29-Apr-2018

Hi meeshu, Thank you for reading my frre verse ai posted this one with reservation LOL not sure of reactions but I think I have survived Cheers Christine

Comment from BeasPeas

Excellent

Hi Christine. This is a sixer for sure, but I already have given you a sixer for today on another poem so will save one for someone else. However, I agree with you completely on the sometimes cryptic writes of some poems. Kudos to you for bringing it up. This poem is clear and interesting on an always timely topic--our writing style. Good theme and rhyming throughout. Great job. Marilyn

 Comment Written 29-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 29-Apr-2018

Hi Marilyn, Thank you so much and I have gained a six today for this one so it was worth the wrote and yes I know sometimes I award 2 sixes to the same person if I think they are worth it but I do like to save them for special poems . just to have your support is my reward despite the stars. I was a little hesisant about posting this as I didn't want to upset anyone and hopefully tactful in my wording but sometime I do find a 'free style ' too hard to fathom out and sometimes think poeple write words for the sake of trying to impress everyone with their word skills Hmmm Anyway I enjoy a good thyme any day Cheers Christine

reply by BeasPeas on 30-Apr-2018

I often have exactly the same thought about it.

Comment from Susan B. Lamphier

Exceptional

Christine--You constantly amaze me! You have such a gift for verse--are you a songwriter, by any chance? Anyways, I love this musical poem about your opinion of free verse. I actually prefer free verse, because I can delve into space and time as I write. Well deserved 6 stars!

 Comment Written 29-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 29-Apr-2018

Hi Susan, Thank yo so much for your lovely support and six stars for this poem. No not a songwriter never thought about trying to write a song I cant read music so I would find it a little difficult. I love to sing though not solo but in a chorus and have done a few plays with a local theatre company Auditioning for a role in Cinderella Pantomime next week I want to be one of the ugly sisters I was one when I was 12 in form one in highschool and my first play and I thought at 65 would to be again an ugly sister would be the best fun LOL I love the theatre. I have written free verse but probably not very good I think I am better with rhyme Ha Ha Many Cheers to you Christine

reply by Susan B. Lamphier on 29-Apr-2018

Good luck with the audition. With your fairy tale talent, I'll bet you can create quite the ugly sister!

reply by the author on 29-Apr-2018

Ha Ha hope so I will let ypu know and If I get the part I will definitely writeca poem Cheers Christine

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

Lol. Well said. I'm sure that's the best way to end it as "agree to disagree." I agree with you that it helps to have some poetic form even unrhyming ones like the syllabic limitations just so that we are keeping to some format.

 Comment Written 28-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 29-Apr-2018

Hi lyenochka, Thank you and yes I think so I do enjoy some free verse bit I like to ne anle to imderstand tthe authors intention and probably favour rhyme and meter Ccheers Christine

Comment from karenina

Excellent

A poem commenting on poem styles....interestingly played! A lighthearted debate but no doubt what side you land on. I too am essentially a traditional meter/verse/rhyme poet....

Like you, however, on those rare occasions when my mind becomes untethered to rules and counts and such and I manage a free verse poem -- I find it freeing and satisfying...and I think of it, sort of like I see modern art painting....

I may mean one thing, the "reader or viewer" might interpret quite another...and that is FINE....if it stirs emotion, makes an impact, I care little if they opine that my poem about "the wild cat" (for example) had not a feline bit about it.... Long as it moves them!

Karenina

 Comment Written 28-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 29-Apr-2018

Hi Karenina, Thank you and yes I am a rhymer at heart but can appreciate a well written free verse and have tried writing it but struggle with the prose so ai go nack to what ai know best I will check out you wild cat work Cheers Christine

Comment from Sharon Haiste

Excellent

Well written and well said.
I have to say I do not understand Free Verse. It doesn't make sense to me at all.
I'm glad that you have said so in this verse as well.
Thank you for sharing this.
Sharon

 Comment Written 28-Apr-2018

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reply by the author on 29-Apr-2018

Hi Sharon, Thank you and I try to understand free verse but it often confuses me especially if is is so unexplainable and bizzare with words and meaning Lets stick to rhyme Cheers Christine