jim
Perhaps you could write a challenge, choose a poetic form, explain what it is, give some examples. It could be a good starting point for Fellow Poets, including me.
2026-05-25

Kee Zealy
I enjoy a challenge. The times I have written different forms was an effort to challenge myself. I have written the forms you mentioned with the exception of the triolet. For me it’s a sense of if I feel a rhythm in my head when I do use a rhyme scheme. There is a poet who is a creative writing student at NCA&T whom I follow, seldom uses a Rhyme scheme, but her imagery is ridiculous. Her instagram handle is Nyabithegreat. She is truly outstanding. So we she shall see what I come up with next, stay tuned.
2026-05-25

Griffonner
All too often I read structured poems and feel they are 'plinky- plonky' because so much energy has been used in contriving rhyming words in the 'write' place. :o)
I would also add that I suspect, like myself, many writers have archives that are yet to be dusted and exposed to the light of day. I started writing serious poetry over sixty years ago, I re-read it now and find that I see it as 'juvenile' (is the word that best describes my appraisal). In my view there is an honesty to free verse. That doesn't mean I don't occasionally dabble in the odd acrostic. In the end I guess it is 'each to his own' - as it should be. Blessings and brotherly love, Allen
2026-05-25

arquious
This confirms the contemporaneous seasonality of structured poetry; of which I suspect are still being written but not nearly posted up as often for fear of being burnt yet again. The archive is filling with mothballed and never been aired poems of such form and raiment.🕊️🙏
2026-05-25