In that last poem I put a lot of effort into the structure, and bound up a lot of the meaning with it. I'm happy about what I did with the structure, but the words alone don't move me deeply. In fact, I'm more pleased with the paragraph afterwards than with the poem itself. I think a poem where too much of the meaning is bound up in the structure can't be expected to be interpreted correctly by a careful reader, or in full by a casual reader. Part of me can't help but compare this kind of poetry, including my last poem, with something like a Gnostic hymnal; elitist, and I don't like it.

So when I bind up the meaning in the structure, the meaning becomes hidden to some extent. Usually, I think I want to deliver my meaning clearly, but sometimes I have things that I need to let out which I can't articulate to anyone, even myself, and so i have to hide those things in imagery or structure in order to express them... So, I might rhyme sometimes, but I'm not going to limit myself to a certain style, and I might more often not rhyme in my poems.

But on the other hand, I've heard songs with no lyrics at all, which moved me deeply or helped me to process difficult memories. The lack of words in those songs certainly did not imply a lack of meaning, but the meaning was inarticulable with words (at least, it seemed so to me), and I suspect that other people derive totally different meaning from the same songs. I want to ask the composer of one of those songs what meaning they tried to write into the music they composed, to find out if it was articulable with words by the original composer or if he had somehow tapped into an aspect of himself enabling him to compose works of art which communicate ideas which can't be articulated with words, and then wrote his songs to communicate those ideas directly. That deeper meaning would have to be a common element in all interpretations. This is the human element in art. It's something which I experience all the time, which affects me regularly, and which I love, (I even married her), but I don't fully understand it.

I need to think more about it. I'm going to email my composer friend, and brother in Christ, HDJRII. Shout out to his great YouTube channel, by the way:
 https://www.youtube.com/user/heyhdjr2

 "It doesn't have to be every time. Even if it's one in a hundred times, I want you to remember."