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Originally Posted by HarryT
Doesn't anyone write real poetry any more? You know, the kind with a meter, that scans properly?
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that's a very narrow definition of poetry to me. Though I mostly agree: poetry is mostly how you write it out, not what you write. You can write about the same things poeticaly or in everyday pedestrian language. No amount of breaking common everyday phrasings in verses will make it poetry. On the other hand, no amount of verses will make good poetry when there's no poetry in it.
That said, being a minimalist, I do write mostly haiku, in the usual 5-7-5 meter as far as I can tell. No, they're not a simple statement broken in 3 (strictly metric) verses: there's an idea, the exposition, and a cut to a contrasting conclusion. Haiku depict a scene, they're not a statement. Plus, I usually mix in some ambiguous wordplay in mine for people who, like me, enjoy puzzles.
in portuguese I did write quite a few sonnets in strict 10-meter, heroic petrarchan format. I'm not sure I can do that yet in english...