Free Verse Poetry — What To Avoid & How To Immediately Improve

Poetry is one of those fields in which there are people doing it well…and then a tremendous amount of people doing it wrong. The free verse poem below is an example of doing it wrong:

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Write a poem all over the place.

With words here

and

words there.

The more confusing the better

With a vision not to make sense, but to make so little sense that people mistake their own confusion for stupidity.

That is the essence of art.

Be so absurd in your expression that their lack of understanding becomes validation. For instance, a Jackson Pollock painting or the lauded…

Soulja Boy.

As long as the poem doesn’t reach people who know what they’re talking about, pretentiousness will keep it on people’s Facebook feeds and Twitter timelines

for

years

to

come.