No More Metric Poetry?

Does anyone compose metric poetry anymore?  Prose is a great poetic form, but it seems to have completely overrun the creative minds of today's poets.  What ever happened to the musical, the lyrical, the enchanting verse of the bard?  I will argue that it is a more difficult, structered style that many poets find too challenging and restrictive. 

Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 08:12PM by Registered CommenterWayne Paul | CommentsPost a Comment

Something to Mull Over...

If anything is possible, if complete freedom exists, in the universe, and nothing is impossible at the same time, what is the purpose of science?  Science seeks to limit the possible, prove the impossible, and establish order to the universe.  How  then can limitless possibility, total freedom, exist within an ordered, scientific system?  Hmmmm...

Posted on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 02:53PM by Registered CommenterWayne Paul | CommentsPost a Comment