I would prefer that everyone write their poems according to his or her understanding of what a poem is. No amount of following the rules is of itself...
I got a bit confused as to whether you were the bird or were observing it, and I worried that your commitment to end-rhymes was going to get you into...
To be quite truthful, it meant something to me when I wrote it, but I can well see how it might have flustered some. If I were to try to explain it,...