Valentine poem -A bad poem about bad breath

It depends on each poem.
A silly one like today's is just a bit of fun and I don't get too hung up on structure - as you can see.

One hint for reading my poetry is that I write poetry the way I write song lyrics.

Which means I double up or even quadruple up on a beat. My son says rap artists do the same.

So if you have a rythm/tune going for the poem, you might need to give a word the value of a quaver instead of a crotchet or even a semi-quaver - and then it hangs together. Sometimes a word needs to stretch into minim - or a pause is needed, but I only allow that in a way that if read out loud it would sound natural. I don't believe in speeding up and slowing down just to make stuff match up.

I also write often in a verse/chorus/bridge structure. I started writing songs before poetry and the habits linger.

I try to get the punctuation correct whatever the poem's structure and form.

I don't like the fashion of forcing words into lines of matching syllable lengths irrespective of where the natural sentence break falls.

I like the poem to speak naturally. Sometimes it sings itself into a regular rhyming structure and often it doesn't.