The site's best form poetry

[Keith]

This is not intended as an exhaustive list of "these are the only poems that are worth reading on the site".  They're ones I've found over the past couple of days, some I remembered, some I hadn't even noticed before, but pretty much exclusively from the practice threads and definitely exclusively form.  Not because form's better but because it came up in conversation and I enjoy celebrating the work of the writers we have here -- especially in practice mode, where you're forced to discipline yourself into a particular kind of poem.  There is no writer of free verse who does not benefit from learning the disciplines of form, and I will stand by that.

This doesn't fit what has been requested of this thread but I do believe it supports the comment above, I mean free verse is just prose without internal rhyme and this poem is one of my favourites and demonstrates the poets ability to take what she has honed in a formal setting to deliver a poem of the highest quality. She the night by Leanne. Sorry I can't do the link but it's on page two of the spotlights. The poem simply gives me something to aspire to. I think sometimes Leanne doesn't understand how much she brings to this site and just how much her comments and poetry are appreciated. I for one have been both inspired and influenced by her poetry. I don't want anyone to jump on this, Leanne wouldn't want the accolade. No, all you would be free verse guru's just take a look at the structure of this poem, it truly is a work born out of hard study of form.

She The Night by Leanne
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