A weird attempt at free verse (I almost always rhyme)

[ChristopherSea]

T. S. Eliot wrote, "No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job". Free verse, not to be confused with "free iambic verse", often such things as cadence as in Walt Whitman poems, or Allen Ginsberg lines of breath. Although it is free from the convention of strict form, it still incorporate that help support and convey the content, it is not abandoning all poetic devices and simply writing a pedantic diatribe tell others what they should do, such writing is more akin to a sermon than a poem. If you wish to write an advise column. You could make this more poetic by simply changing it to the first person, therefore you would be sharing you experience, not preaching. Example:


"I love this earth I've sprung from.
the way it writhes on the ground,
under my toes and fingers.
I love to eat it raw.
Shoving my face into the ground and chew,
breathing heavily, smelling the dampness.
I feel the grit clumping under my
tongue and filling between my teeth.
I cover my naked body with uncut grass
and clover from the field."


Best,


Dale

Isn't your reference to 'free iambic verse' a fancy way of saying 'Blank Verse'?