[New-Poetry] terror dactyls

[John Jeffrey]

These are the discussions that make me scratch my head.  Why the argument against the idea that a sonnet has a certain form--which, yes, is flexible to a point, but a poem that wants to live in the sonnet neighborhood has to conform to the rules in some major way.  (I bet that word "rules" really set some teeth on edge, eh?)  Otherwise it's simple: it's not a sonnet.  A chicken liver dropped on the cat's back is not a sonnet.  Neither is a toaster.  And neither is fourteen single word lines.  You can call it a sonnet, but it ain't.  Nor is this post a sonnet.  Nor is it a haiku.  It's not a earlobe either.  Even if I insist.

Now where is that cat?

John

       
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