Do any frum poets know how to write anything other than free verse?

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    👑RebYidd23
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    I’ve seen some rhymes, but meter is completely ignored.

    #1331596
    CTLAWYER
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    Personally, I prefer Yards, feet and inches to meters.

    BUT I learned decades ago to write in Iambic Pentameter

    #1332447
    DovidBT
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    CTL, will you share some of your poetry with us?

    #1332659
    Shopping613 🌠
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    I write poetry, as a kid I did not know free verse existed till about 8th grade. I used to love haiku’s, couplets, and some other names I can’t remember.

    I also like writing the one that can go up to down and down to up (Don’t know the name), a lot of my poetry are also songs so they definitely rhyme!

    In any case, why would you make such a generalization? Where do you even view frum poetry?!

    #1332685
    Luna Lovegood
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    In addition to free verse(which is by far my favorite form of poetry due to it’s lack of rules and the ability of the poet to create their own structure) I’ve written haikus, sonnets, terza rima, and skeltonic poems

    #1332687
    CTLAWYER
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    @DovidBT
    My poetry has been written to/for my wife and daughters. I’d not feel comfortable posting them publicly

    #1332707
    DovidBT
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    “Where do you even view frum poetry?!”

    The siddur is full of poetry. And the Book of Psalms. And the Tisha B’Av Kinnos.

    #1332724
    Luna Lovegood
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    shopping- I know of a few people who post their poetry on blogs and there is also an online journal called the Jewish Literary Journal that publishes Jewish themed pieces.

    #1332779
    👑RebYidd23
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    Most free verse is just prose in a hat.

    #1332732
    👑RebYidd23
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    (That’s a poem.)

    #1332787
    Avram in MD
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    A poem for RebYidd twenty-three
    Written by a frum Jew like me
    Who as a fun gimmick
    Made it a limerick
    And not free verse I hope you see!

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