Timothy Steele on Meter

[billy]

i'm with you on this one rowens, i use or don't use a meter of choice and i want to i'll swap it around. for me it's how i hear it, not how i think someone else will hear it. if i'm writing to a form like a sonnet i'll usually follow the rules but if i'm free writing i'll usually do it in what sound right that said i do like meter in a poem.

I operate on Abbott-Costello mathematics. It doesn't matter if it makes sense, as long as it works. Like I said before, everything for me is moving in and out of context. When I need specific types of knowledge and skill, I study. But after I use it, I forget it. The next time I have to learn it all over. With some poems, not knowing is more useful than knowing. It's good to learn and forget. I already forgot who Tim Steele is. Sounds like a wrestler I met on the independent circuit in the '90s.