Today’s poem (a terzanelle) comes from a prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano: list rules that people have taught you about poetry, then break four of them. I don’t worry about other people’s rules so much when I write poems. When I have had my poems critiqued, though, a few things have come up. This particular poem focuses on the use of the word ‘but’, which some folks think is a word to be avoided. (The ‘rules’ I broke are included in the tags for this post.)

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