Science or Art, IP, abab Options

[jgdittier]

Is poetry a science or an art,
its form an inmate's solitary state,
enchained by prose's flavor, naught but tart,
encased in walls of brick or solid slate?

When wisdom rules as commeth forth from mind;
if crystal hard, a mold, no choice allows.
Behold, we've verse of scientific kind,
less choice for guffaws, nor for laughs and howls.

If verse is art, the poet then is free
to entertain us any way his muse
can choose, like Charlie on "Berg's" knee,
and none of Milton's methods man may lose.

May bards e'er be the forces to elate,
humanity's approach to verse, sublime
and pray our minds we vow to never sate
and lose these joys we nurse with beat and rhyme.

note "Berg's" =Edgar Bergin, ventriloquist/humorist,
Charlie McCarthy was his dummy

[JustDaniel]

Hey, Ron...

I'm such a slow reader... and I finally got to reading this one, appreciating it... then getting confused in the barrage of discussion that followed, in which I surprisingly found my name, coming something short of disparaging my point of view [ Notice that I DID say, SHORT of; so no reaction is necessary from anyone. ]  Anyhow, I remain confused, especially by your professorial response parody.

What are you saying in this poem?  PLEASE forgive my dimness in this, Ron.  You know that I appreciate your writing.

sLightly confused, Daniel  :speechless: