Obscurity in Poetry

[abu nuwas]

Can someone let me know what these rules are?

No, but if you find out, tell me and then confiscate all my pens, because writing poetry will have become very mundane and I'll probably just go off and become an accountant or something.

Seriously, there are conventions in all writing so that the reader has some solid ground, and any changes to these conventions should be deliberate, not just "i writeout capital letters because cummings did and he's like totally the bestest" or (worst of all) "that was how it came out of my heart and that's the pure art don't disturb it or you'll ruin its soul".

Who'd a thunk? Leanne no longer cares
That a made thing is a poema?
Instead she sits and blankly stares
And vaguely wonders what it means
That a thunk thing is called noema;
Or why she rhymes, while counting beans.

l think the most common reasons for writing 'my way' are a) that that is what you have done forever (me) ; and b ) that you were never exposed to tuition, and choose to assert, that however you write, is valid: (les autres).

I am more sympathetic than you over 'from the heart' poems. In Another Place, I have read some heart-rending poems, by a woman whose husband suddenly got, and died from, cancer. But then I am a crap critic, as I always make clear.