On 8/3/05, Marcus Bales <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The distinction between "formal" and "free verse" poetry is just what I'm
> challenging, though. I hold that it's not enough to claim you're a poet, or
> your every golden word is a poem, or poetry, or if you do, there can be
> no honor in it since any idiot can make that claim, and if you hold that
> it's okay for any idiot to make that claim, and be honored for it, then
> what distinguishes you from an idiot?
If there is honor in calling oneself, or in being called, a poet --
I've missed out on that somehow.
I am a poet because I practice poetry. I read it; I attempt to write
it. Claiming the title is no claim to quality -- after all, there are
good carpenters, and bad ones. Some carpenters make walls, and some
make cabinets. Some do it clumsily, and some do it well. Any idiot may
call herself a carpenter, but if she never attempts to build anything,
her claim will not be believed. And those who look at what she has
built, or live in it, will decide for themselves if she is a good
carpenter, or a bad one.
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