poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on The Happy Side of Misery by Dovina.

nypoet2222 May 2007

I meant both the rebuke arose stanza and the antsy spirit stanza, both inconsistent in tense. the rest of the poem is all present tense. If you're going to change tense, especially in the middle(s?) of two stanzas in a row, have a good reason to do so. did you have a reason, or was it just the way things came out?