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Poetry: March 04, 2020 Issue [#10050]




 This week: Freedom Within Form
  Edited by: Warped Sanity Author IconMail Icon
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3. Letter from the Editor
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About This Newsletter

This newsletter introduces an a fun poetic form to work with. Much like freeverse, it allows for a lot of freedom.


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Letter from the editor

Many of the invented forms in poetry offer more freedom, while still having guidelines. The bop is one, which was created by Michael Weaver. The bop is sort of a poetic argument. It consists of three stanzas. Like verse libre, there are no specific word counts per line, nor are there any strict rules with the meter. Though, there are some rules to be followed in the form.

The first stanza must be six lines long, which states the problem. The second stanza must be eight lines long, expanding on the problem. The third stanza is six lines and states the resolution or reason the resolution could not be met. Each stanza is followed by a repeated phrase that ties the stanzas together.

Here is an example by Michael Weaver:

Rambling

In general population, census
is consensus—ain't nowhere to run
to in these walls, walls like a mind—
We visitors stand in a yellow circle
so the tower can frisk us with light,
finger the barrels on thirsty rifles.

I got rambling, rambling on my mind

In general population, madness runs
swift through the river changing, changing
in hearts, men tacked in their chairs,
resigned to hope we weave into air,
talking this and talking that and one brutha
asks Tell us how to get these things
They got, these houses, these cars.
We want the real revolution. Things...

I got rambling, got rambling on my mind

In the yellow circle the night stops
like a boy shot running from a Ruger 9mm
carrying .44 magnum shells, a sista
crying in the glass booth to love's law,
to violence of backs bent over to the raw
libido of men, cracking, cracking, crack...

I got rambling, rambling on my mind



Is this a form you've tried? If so, I'd love to read your attempts.



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