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]

Thank you for your clarification.  Your words are often capable of more than one interpretation, my friend... and you clearly note that you have no time or patience or interest, or whatever in meter and rhyme.  Your vists in it seem frequently to reinforce that perspective.

I struggle with free verse, but I really try to understand it and have surely tried to write in it.  I do not say that I cannot or will not.

Love in Light, Daniel  :sun:

Sorry for the interlude, Ron...

I anxiously await your clarification.