Oh, BB, don't get silly. By all means write more, and share them with those who can offer you good feedback, and build your voice.

But don't pose as an expert just because you can memorize the symbols for an ababcdcdee rhyme scheme or use big words like dactyl. It doesn't wash. Your statement "I ask only that verse be judged by its quality, not by opinions of content" is revelatory, because it indicates that you believe the quality of a poem can be gauged by its structural compliance with the prescribed form, ignoring its content. I find that unbelievable.

However, it is not my business to tell you what to believe, so feel free. My own sense of it is that hubris is a major disease among some poets and those of us who want to become poets, because poetic sparks are so blinding sometimes. Notice I include myself in the "wannabe" (or perhaps the "becoming") half. To me calling oneself a poet isa a glib and easy thing to do, but becoming one is not easy.

Finding humility is not easy for big important folks like us, I know. But I submit that we should perhaps undertake the effort to see what we can learn from it.

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