[stylist] Jackie, about the form used for my poem Interpretations

[KajunCutie926 at aol.com]

Jackie,
 
Thank you so much!  I also do the 'cascading  quatrains'.   It is like the 
tumbling tercets in that you allow the  last line of the stanza to flow into 
the first line of next stanza.  It can  be rhymed or unrhymed, metered or 
not metered.  I like it because it allows  me to write in a free verse style 
but still have that little bit of  structure.   I love the experimentation 
of writing. When asked to  describe my writing philosophy some are often a 
bit taken aback by my simple  approach.  I compare writing to a child with his 
hands in Play Doh.   You can hold the words in your hands and mold them and 
sculpt them.  You  can take it apart and start over.  You can put it away 
to finish later. And  when done it may not be the most beautiful of piece of 
artwork ever creative but  it is your artwork, your creation, your 
interpretation of the words  and  isn't it grand that you could participate in the 
birthing of it.  You may  keep it or not.  The choice is always yours.  The 
words will always  understand because they give themselves freely to you and 
make no demands on  their use.
 
Thank you again, Jackie.
 
Myrna
 
 
In a message dated 5/29/2012 2:26:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
jackieleepoet at cox.net writes:

Myrna,
I just love your phrase, Tumbling Tercets.
You are a  very inventive poet, and you may well be one of those  "New
Formalists.:"
I have a sister who has gone through most of the  poetic forms listed in the
book, "Awakening the Poet Within" by Anne  Gassar, and then she developed 
her
own off-shoots. I try some of that, but  I do not feel comfortable unless I
know the traditional form automatically.  Somehow, I feel a form poem easier
to deal with as a blind person. The  structure of something is definable by 
a
"white cane" . It takes tremendous  concentration to keep the format in 
mind,
but I take it as a drill to keep  the mind agile and working in precision
mode.
I love discussions of  different forms and then trying them.
I admire your creativity and  talent.
Jackie