[AggieDad]

Compare and contrast
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/war-photographer/

Thank you for this. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Lord Lucan]

I just last week finally received the 60" by 5 yard roll of unbleached muslin I had ordered. I'll be using it as a scrim but haven't yet tried it.

You must have a very large format panoramic camera.

[gatorguy]

You must have a very large format panoramic camera.

Well I needed at least 2+ yards and figured I'd keep extra "in case". It's cheap. I wanted 60" wide (it's actually 63" fabric) to use with a couple of different collapsible frames up to 5' wide.

It's more of a test to see if shooting thru the warmer unbleached muslin instead of the standard white scrim found everywhere makes a positive difference in some of my portrait stuff.

[leekil]

I don't see that as a poem, no matter how perceptive the content might be. It is a short essay with superfluous line breaks.

I don't mind poems that don't rhyme, but in adddition to any contained message there should be beauty in the form of the words. This may be as rhyme, alliteration, rhythm or possibly something else. I see nothing of that there.

Geez, you guys, a poem doesn't have to be lyrical. In this case he is using more poetic language than you would use normally, and he is also using a structure where lines start with an -ing verb.

I mean, you might not like it, and you might nothing it's good, but it is certainly more poetic than regular language.

[Lord Lucan]

Not every poem rhymes every two lines.

Every two lines? I once wrote a poem that rhymes every two syllables! It was a struggle. I write a little gothic poetry in the traditional style, and I like to rhyme every line within a verse, and if possible rhyming internally with each other, and alliteration. I'm afraid I have nothing about photography though. I started writing after being impressed by Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott and Shakespeare's poem All that Glisters is not gold - nine straight rhyming lines. To me, the words in something like The Lady of Shalott are the verbal equivalent of beautiful shapes and colours in a picture.

In this case he is using more poetic language than you would use normally, and he is also using a structure where lines start with an -ing verb.

Some of the lines do start with "ing". But I would not say the language is much different from how I would write an essay except I would have had some punctuation, not had the line breaks, and called it prose. Taking it as prose It is a long sentence, but you should see the length of some of Marcel Proust's sentences!