Words Want To Find Chimes With Each

There's Very Little Of The Intentional About The Business Of Writing Poetry, As Least As Far As I Can See.

Living At That Pitch, On That Edge, Is Something Which Many Poets Engage In To Some Extent.

The Point Of Poetry Is To Be Acutely Discomforting, To Prod And Provoke, To Poke Us In The Eye, To Punch Us In The Nose, To Knock Us Off Our Feet, To Take Our Breath Away.

Of Course, You Can't Legislate For How People Are Going To Read.

I Believe That These Devices Like Repetition And Rhyme Are Not Artificial, That They're Not Imposed, Somehow, On The Language.