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[–]lazerdave -1 points0 points  (0 children)


As an atheist, I'm pissed that someone would try to exploit the death of OP's brother.

In the bigger sense, I'm more pissed about the "poem" itself. This happens a lot this time of year, but throw religion into the mix and people feel they have even more license to do it. And by "it," I mean people completely ignoring the concept of meter in poetry.

As the great Tom Lehrer once wrote: "The tune don't have to be clever,/ And it don't matter if you stuff a couple extra syllables into a line./ It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English/ And it don't even gotta rhyme...sorry, rhyne."

Christmas commercials are usually the worst offenders, but xtian people do it all year long. Just because the last word of every other line rhymes, that DOES NOT A POEM MAKE. Well, not a good one, in any case.

Now don't get me wrong here, there's nothing wrong with free verse. Just don't try to pretend once you've established a meter to your "poem" that you're free to then toss it aside whene're you feel like it or it's more convenient because you suck at writing and can't find the words to say so that it fits your meter.