the only form I've ever consciously practised is the haiku, which has a
snapshot feeling for me, and can be practised without making language into
polyfilla. when a poet attempts a more grandiose form, as the sonnet, it is
more or less inevitable that he or she will use language as a kind of verbal
polyfilla. forcing sense for the benefits of the mellifluous or otherwise
sounds of the poem, is an impossible quotient which ends up in incoherence,
even in the hands of the best poets.
--Paul
Perhaps, but there are many, many short forms that can give poets practice
and pleasure without the pain of a sonnet or sestina. Regardless, a poet
may never know they are a sonnetter till one attempted.
Smiles.
Gary
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