I'd like to see more playing with a variety of meters and poetic forms. Most people can write iambic tetrameter (to judge by how much can be sung to the tune of Greensleeves!), but more decorative feet are ignored and the alliterative verse forms are pretty well neglected. By more decorative, I mean rhythms like those underlying "The Highwayman", "The Bells", "Song of Hiawatha", "The Lady of Shallot", etc., where they grab the reader and pull him/her along with the running words. The non-rhyming forms use the sound and weight of the syllables to frame the sense of the poem. The exact number of syllables isn't important, but the stresses and alliterations have to be in the right places. Just as haikus and sonnets tend to be on more serious subjects than are limericks, heroic age poetry had metric forms for regular stories, epics, and magical/mythological chants. If we had more practice and familiarity with a wide variety of verse types, we'd know what to reach for when a story needed to be dressed in poetic clothing. There are so many verse forms, that one a week would keep us busy for a loooooong time! Carolly