To Bee or Not, buzzer Options

[Merlin]

To Bee or not to Bee

Another close of day, and rain
pulsed on the building in tintinnabulation.
This was not my choice of evening, but
ducks should be dancing with pleasure.

Another day in the jungle – feeling wiped
and horrified at the thought of fighting traffic
through squares of manmade symmetry.
As I waited at a light, I wondered
why our world was square.

And I wondered why the bee,
that architect of perfection,
had chosen the hexagon as its design,
but man is smarter than a bee
and not as fragile.

And I wondered why I wore my dress pants
on a day destined to be bucketing
till I remembered – man is smarter than a bee.

[Merlin]

Hi Leo,

A short thanks, and a comment about "vers libre," and I believe that's where it started. There were writers of English poetry who used Blank verse, but the 2 are not to be confused. Blank is unrhymed IP, and a fixed form, should any not be aware.

Those poets who began FV, as we'll call it, were seeking a different mode from the structured verse they were writing. The important thing to note is that they knew all the rules & regs of fixed verse, and changed that style. Nowadays, the first part of that equation is lost - most FVers don't have the knowledge of fixed verse, and thus is lost that important portion of "Free Verse", the verse part.

PMs are traveling 'cross the pond so as not to waste bandwidth here.

Merlin