The defacto pat answer 
Category: Writing and Poetry 

I realize that every day somebody will read my writing that 
doesn't know my style and isn't familiar with my body of work. 
There's also people who are not familiar with the fact that pure 
poetry is written for the benefit of the poet and not to try and 
make their poems all things to all people. Poetry should be 
written in such a way that pleases you, the writer. 

The pace, the rhyme, the rhythm, the meaning, or no meaning at 
all, are all for the benefit of the person who's writing the 
poem. Sometimes poems don't have to mean anything. And the thing 
is, everyone goes through changes. The world is ever changing 
and our lives take twists and turns. Sometimes nothing changes 
at all but us. We grow weary of "meaningful" non rhyming poems 
or we happen to be listening to the Fugees, so we start rhyming. 

Art and poetry are one and the same. All forms of art are an 
expression of the soul of the artist. If anyone cared to look, 
they'd see that a good portion of my earlier work didn't rhyme 
comepletely. That's because someone told me their college 
professor told them that poems should be a pure expression of 
meaning and they don't need to rhyme. They just wanted to make 
sure they edified me with that little nugget that was passed 
onto them. 

Well let me tell you something people for the record, I didn't 
major in literature, but I got an A in English Lit. and I 
believe, (it may not be true), but I believe I have the soul of 
a writer. I'm not posting here on myspace to try and convince 
anybody of anything, I have no agenda, you could read my poems, 
or you don't have to read my poems. That's up to you, my 
happiness is not dependent on other people or things. 

I write what's in my soul, and if anybody here wants to edify 
me, I will politely say thank you and move on. That's just the 
way that I am. But I am not trying to win the Nobel Prize or fit 
into anybody else's idea of what a classic writer is, or what 
tasteful, meaninful literature should consist of. I really don't 
care what other people think who have ideas such as these.

Nothing against you, but I wasn't trying to prove anything to 
anybody in the first place. I will never try to prove anything 
to anybody, here on myspace or otherwise. This isn't a 
popularity contest, this isn't a writing contest, I'm secure 
enough in myself to where I don't need to beat someone else to 
feel better.

But rest assured, I appreciate all your comments and the fact 
that you took the time to read my work. I just don't have enough 
time in the day to keep responding to everyone's posts, so I 
thought I'd write a defacto post for the ones that suggest I 
write this type of poem or that type of poem. Or the ones that 
say I should clean up the sexuality.