Lame ass poetry

[DrFaroohk]

I really can't stand the way some people
Will take a random thing they typed
And put it in line format
And suddenly its a brilliant poem.
Not that I
Have
Anything against poetry,
But I only like good poetry,
Not this sophomoric crap
That
People
Keep
Writing
But what I hate more than the
poetry
Itself
Is the lameasses who dig it
And fall for it
And suck the dicks of everyone
Who writes like this.


The End.

[jackfaire]

Wow Doc you touched me you really did that was all deep and meaningful n stuff (imagine I sound stoned) :p

Completely agree.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Whoah! I'm TRIPPIN' BALLS!


And also, yeah. :D

[NateSean]

It began in tenth grade
When a teacher said unto us
A poem, will you write
For a grade upon this night

My word
What brilliant stars
I proclaimeth thee a savant
Thy poem hath stirred the soul
A+ Good Work Bob *smiley face*

And thus began
My
Journey to the Soul
As I lay my veins bare

For my tenth grade class
Is where my literary loins were sewn
And frometh there
I shall enter into the tomes
of Poetry.com

[muses_nightmare]

Fricking eh!

I could go into a rant, but I won't. It'll get long, very, very long. Let's just say, everything you write in your journal isn't poetry and EDIT dammit! :D

[Rapscallion]

Is it worth pointing out that I did a Best Man's speech in poem form?

Eighty lines, in twenty four-line stanzas - it had a regular rhyming scheme and it damn well scanned properly. Not like this free-verse bollocks that's taken over through being able to say that anything is 'free verse'. Put some effort into what I did.

Rapscallion

[jackfaire]

What is sad is that I myself was guilty of this in my early 20s.

[DrFaroohk]

Sadly, I probably was too at one point :( It's probably why I don't do any songwriting anymore. It all just sounded so lame I couldn't play it with a straight face and actually feel good about myself.

[jackfaire]

I don't write much anymore at all and I finally realized it's cuz my writing really isn't that good.

[Fryk]

I used to do that kind of crap sarcastically for High School english assignments. I stopped because the teachers never got that I was being sarcastic, and thought I should submit the stuff to newspapers and such.

[muses_nightmare]

I write almost exclusively freeverse. Frankly rhyming almost alway sounds forced, when pretty much anyone does it.

The problem I find with younger people (teenagers) writing is that they think all poetry must rhyme :mad: it really doesn't have to. That and when the do rhyme their vocabulary consists of them rhyming bat with cat and so on. :p They also seem to think that text speak is just fine, and editing is not required because it's their "feelings". Yeah I write my feelings to, but I do so with the help of a spell checker and numerous edits thank you very much.

[Ree]

I write almost exclusively freeverse. Frankly rhyming almost alway sounds forced, when pretty much anyone does it.Me too. I agree.

My work must suck. :p

I don't really care. I don't write it for anyone else.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I used to write poetry to express my feelings; however, it stayed in my journal and never was shown to anyone. I've put some of it up on DA, along with a couple of my creative writings, but I did put effort into it, I didn't just mash the keyboard.

Emo poetry is what I thought of when I read the title of the thread. -.-

[Vagabond]

Like other things, I believe poetry is private and should be kept to one's self, preferable behind closed doors.

[Boozy]

Like other things, I believe poetry is private and should be kept to one's self, preferable behind closed doors.

It would be a shame if everyone thought like that. We wouldn't have been given the opportunity to read Tennyson, Yeats, Longfellow....

[Vagabond]

Boozy,
Forgive my ignorance, but I only recognize the names, I don't know who those people are; other than quite possibly dead.
But like many things, it's a matter of taste - what appeals to one, won't necessarily appeal to others. Example, 'Catcher in the Rye' is supposed to be a classic book or something - I thought it was not worth reading and I want that time back.

[AdminAssistant]

Poetry has a similar problem that theatre does. People aren't being taught how to appreciate it and therefore, they don't. I was lucky to have an English teacher who really did love Poe and Shakespeare and really helped us understand meter, rhyme, and how poetry can be used to communicate. As a college teacher, I've come across many students who resist anything remotely Shakespearean because they 'hate Shakespeare.' Why? Because it was taught by an English Lit teacher who simply had them read it aloud in class and they were bored to tears. Or they were forced to sit through a terrible community or high school production.

At any rate, poetry has the same problem. I'm not a huge fan of Tennyson, Longfellow, or Whitman, but I adore Poe, Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein, and Emily Dickinson. The Sonnets are kinda fascinating more as revelation about the author than the poetry they contain.

[Vagabond]

AdminAssistant,
I think that may have been my problem - how I was taught about poetry and having to read it aloud in class and bored. Not really taught to appreciate it.

[jackfaire]

a terrible community or high school production.
.

Or they just don't like Shakespeare. I have seen professional companies perform his plays. I have disected his work and studied it as it was meant to be studied. I am still not a fan.

[Vagabond]

Possibly a 'Man of his Time' and his time is over.
Like Lucas and Spielberg... men of their time, but I think their time is over.