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Gwen Hart
Gwen Hart's poem is a sonnet-like
poem that, in her words,
"has jumped the tracks in order to explore the tension between formality and freedom in both love and poetry."
Love and Free Verse:
A Response
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
–Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
--Robert Frost
Free verse is playing tennis without the net,
driving all over the road, sending a muddy
dog onto the field wearing your helmet,
cartwheeling down a hill of poppies, cutting
school. And what’s love without dissonance?
A dance choreographed down the last dip.
Isn’t there something wilder in romance,
something errant, unplanned? The chance
meeting quickens the heart, the lips
burn with the memory of a stolen kiss,
the road less traveled makes all the difference.
Sometimes it’s good to follow the rules,
measure up. Other times it’s better
to break the ruler.
Gwen Hart holds degrees from Wellesley College and Hollins University. Her first book,
Lost and Found, will be published next year by David Robert Books.
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