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thanks for input - assume you refer to dr. king? if so, king never owned anything truly but for copywritten material and i assume you’re referring to the “dust to dust” line which was written originally italicized but copy/paste in changed everything including the 3 indents in each stanza. naturally i know to italicize what needs to be, but where do you think King got any line so-called his? i simply played on a verse from the bible book. and i don’t waste by re-fixing anything i see occur via computer submission. the language is in use. let the interested do his/her part, that is to read and if really interested in whatever hook is supplied, re-read if necessary. i refuse to follow any rule or rules except those i know any written piece in any genre must contain. it is in the manner spoke through language use that brings about the essence of poetic comunication. after 35 plus years of doing this, i don’t have to adhere to any outdated dictums concerning what poetry must have as a general rule. as in any writing form, one climbs up a hill, one reaches the top, one comes down the hill. it’s called - begining, middle, end.
piece originally written in stanzas - i do know what they are.
i disagree as to stanzas making a poem easier to read. where’s the work in reading or is the work in breathing? is your goal to make it easy for the reader to hear you? understand completely in 1st read with language/style geared to reader’s ease? i disagree. grab the reader’s throat and cause them to think.
poetry is breath. mine anyway.
as to stanza impact and “tells the mind where to rest” - periods cause a cease - as commas cause pause. the mind should not, in my mind, need to be told or shown when to rest or ponder - that is what re-reading does if a scope of the total is un-sensed or unfelt, un-“seen.”
i appreciate your comments Chrys. especially the fact you read aloud. i write out loud. i write anywhere anytime in any weather in any noise or light or darkness near pitch black.
as to “accents each thought” - a stanza is thought progression. the sounds of words in a collective line (breath) in any stanza will accent what needs to be stressed. without grammatical sound in any language, poem writing is mere journalizing what one recognizes, feels, sees, condemns or condones written via inner voice heard like one speaks as in live conversation. but through sense, timing, and the addictive magic of musical rhythmed speech sifted with math to lend thought to one who has interest enough to stop and read whomever or whatever with an open mind, ear and uncrusted 3rd eye open, is the goal. ask any dead poet.
peace and thanks again.
rwc…