From: pixy@yabbs
To: Hellion@yabbs
Subject: re: <no title>
Date: Wed May  4 20:44:34 1994
In message re: <no title>, Hellion said:
> Okay, here we go off being "professional" poets?  Tell you all what, 
> I am a Computer Science Major!  Once upon a time I learned a little about
> rhyme and meter, but I really didn't care much, I write what I feel!  If it
> happens to rhyme, so be it, if not then it doesn't.  I guess that I just don't
> have what it takes to write good poetry!  But then again when you are 
> programming 10 - 20 hours a week, you really don't have too much time to 
> think about if it has some rhyme or rythym!  I guess if you don't like what
> I write, dont read it.  I just feel that if there are 2 or 3 people out
> there that like to read it, then I will post it, if not I will just keep it
> to myself *professional poetry* (spoken under breath)
> 
> -- Hellion

okay, stud. you write poetry the way you want; i'm not orderinf any method
upon anyone but myself--if anything i'm trying to keep people from being
forced to write in one certain way because they think that is the way
poems me be in order to be poems. 
but the way i see it is any type of verse--free or otherwise--is
a choice of verse, and i don't think any choice in life should be taken
for granted. If you have enough passion for poetry you'll think about the
choices you make with it, the intricacy of the meter, the suggestions of
the diction, the allusios and similies and metaphors. You'll put every
pieof passion you can wring out of your limbs on to that paper. You'll see
how you can communicate thinks beyond normal expression, and you'll brood
over every choice, every rhyme, every word, every little thing. If you
don't care, fine--just dump it on the paper--that can be great sometimes. 
you see, nothing beautiful is above the elements and design
principles of art--even the most nihilistic sentiments have a unity and
balance to them. Every poem reflects something; if you don't care about
that fine, but  ido and i'll keep on encouraging others to explore and
consciously deal with the different elements of poetry, thank you very
much. 
btw, i'm and Arch major and spend most of my time in the design
studio--your 10 to 20 hours a week programming sounds like a goddamn
vacation to me,and i still find the time to think about what i
right--imagine that
pixy