I have always made my own rules in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do however believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.