[Newspoetry] The argument of me

[John Newmark]

They're your words.

This was my first attempt at the form.  I think it freed up my usual
desire to be fully grammatical and syntactical in my poetry, and
resulted in some imagery I would not normally have written.  The
second stanza is in my feeling the most powerful, almost a mini-poem,
and I know I would never have written it if I hadn't been constrained.

On 10/08/06, DL Emerick <emerick at rap.midco.net> wrote:
> Ah, John's reformation is far more poetic than my gram-errors ever let me be.
>
> I remain a poet-wanna be, happy to hear such truer poetry.  Thank you, John.