Knowledgeable

[billy]

is it something we have to be when writing about a specific subject. i bring this topic up because of a few posts in one of the poetry forums. can we skirt issues and happenstance, if we do, does it weaken a poem. i'm sure this topic has been done to a tee before but it must have been a fair while ago. i believe we can use our vivid imagination and should do so when writing poetry. but certain style i think requires that piece of information that stamps out "this poem is about something i have knowledge of".

so thought s and dismemberments please.