What are your thoughts on Poetry? Do you like or dislike it? Do you prefer to read it or write it or both?

[thegreenyogi]

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I've never been a big fan of it. It seems like prose without any rules.

Big poetry! Yelling! Emotions! Big emotions.
Loose skydiving! Off the...
CLIFF!

Don't eat cannibals!
It is...
RUDE!

Hop-pop-skippity-dop-poppity, dippity dab, fab, jab, punch your way out of the earth! Hell rising! Eat an ear! Turtles dancing!

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I try to do some just off the cuff like Robert Frost in a bar. Robert Frost! Frostie! Frosting the frosty foods that he would serve if today's technology was available back then!

Somberness.
Whales. Dolphins.
Horses. Unicorns.

Big shout! Wind!
Air in the fan. Fan makes waves.

Waves of despair! Waves of hair!
No longer to be feared.

Big nose. Big booger.
Life is short. Don't fart.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Actually re-reading that kind of inspires me to go further.

Jurassic Park!
T-Rex! Ooooh.
But Velociraptor.
Claw your belly.
Exploded your helly!

Velociraptor. Like bird.
Bird-turd! Big turd fly.
Fly like the sky.
Like my emotions.

On family, take wing.
Food on the family.

9-11. Bling-bling.
We all had a 9-11 ding-ding.
Lives lost, pizzas served.
Dinosaurs extinct.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

A wind
-- into my love's grasp
A wind
-- into my love's dream
A wind
-- into my love's hope
A wind
-- into my love lost

[DryGermanGuy]

The woods are lovely, dark and deep /
But I have promises to keep /
And miles to go before I sleep /
And miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost

[Nik1hil]

This is where I feel in love with poetry too..

I felt like I was right there with Robert Frost,
Standing next to his horse by the frozen lake!.

[V_Injector]

Typically, I don't. That focus on making everything rhyme and fit a pattern usually devolves the content. I'm trying to say the content of what they're saying starts to sound retarded because the focus gets put on this or that rhyme and rhythm.

Then I'm sure we've all been exposed to that rap music where they'll just end everything they say with the same word that starts with a "N" and rhymes with "bigger." Pure genius material there! You know, that stuff where the content is bragging about assaulting people, treating females like complete objects, violence, drugs, their money, and other bullshit an 8-year-old child might think about while under threat of constant violence towards him. <--devolved content.

When I write it, I have to admit my content starts turning into what I'm like when I'm just trolling or shitposting. Everyone loves a good shit post here and there, but sometimes I have to indulge my serious side... just a bit more intellectual side. I'll find myself just saying wacky shit to make myself giggle about saying it later. Just look at the titles of rap songs I did..."I get my dick sucked" - "Lookin for School Girls" - "Craigslist Hookers"

My point is... Prostitutes and underaged school girls wouldn't be the subject matter if I was just writing and not thinking about making it rhyme or fit a beat. I'm my own best example of how the content starts turning into a shit show just because I want to make it sound a certain way.

[wiltingrosepetal]

All my classes at uni rn (I'm studying to be an English teacher) are about poetry. I already hated it and I hate it even more now. It's the free structure that frustrates me - there's iambs and metrics and all the different ways to specify the measurable stanzas and yet if you break the structure, it's somehow still poetry? What's the difference between a shopping list and poetry, then?

Maybe I'm bitter because even though poetry is the most fluid kind of writing, boundless without any rules, I've been told that I do it wrong. HOW do you write poetry wrong? So yeah, I hate it with a firey passion 🙃

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Poetry is something I studied in college very intimately as part of my writing degree. Before college, I had lightly dabbled in it, nothing award-winning or noteworthy but I had enjoyed writing it. After studying it at a collegiate level I will never write poetry again. I hated so much of what I learned lol


I’ll still enjoy reading it, and free verse performances are very eye-catching still, it’s very much an art and one worthy of noting but it’s also one I refuse to do anymore after dealing with the pretentiousness of “the greats” and also dissecting poems that were only 4 words long. Never again. The classics can stay there, I’m good here lmao

[Nik1hil]

I love it, I write many of Them planning to convert them into a book of poems

[handsomelad70]

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Trump says he's the Messiah,
Now how do you do?

[Nik1hil]

@handsomelad70 nice, I will Give it a try..

@Asker This one is especially inspired from you and mostly for you @thegreenyogi

Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue.
Politicians will say anything,
To get Votes from you.

As Winter sets in,
Roses will Wither,
Violets will wilt,
So will political promises,
Turn into Guilt.

As the Ground freezes cold.
Roses will be spines,
Unsettling News will make you ask,
"Am I going to be fine?"

Near frozen lake,
Violets will have their Grave,
Your faith will dwindle,
In your eyes courage shake.

Remembering the beauty of Rose 🌹
And how gently it bloom.
It felt full of life 🥺
And now it's spines are a doom.

Wilted Violets will poke your mind
Sing you a hyme,
Birth-Life-death-rebirth
A Tale old as time.

As the spring sets in,
You will go sit upon a rock.
Reflect upon is all,
Autumn, winter or fall.

Realisation will hit you,
It's just a Magic of time
Fleeting Life is beautiful,
You are just a mortal coil

You will Sit on the rock.
Like a hermit or sage.
Command your panic and rage.
Choose to quit, Media the mage.

Lake will unfreeze
Soil will be warm again.
Roses will have Buds.
Violets will set roots in.

Fog of mortal realms
will clear in your sight.
Peace 😇 will set in,
You know you will be alright.

In Peace and delight,
You will close your eyes.
Knowing that someday,
Roses will bloom again
Violets will shine 💜💎

[Nik1hil]

@handsomelad70 😂🤣 Bro this was Fun, I just blew 20 minutes creating it.

You lit the fire to the poet in me, thanks for that!..

[thegreenyogi]

@Nik1hil Very sweet! Thank you!!🫶

[handsomelad70]

GREAT JOB, Nik1hil !!!

[andreasderjuengere]

In primary school I had been forced to learn some poems by heart.
This (un-nice) experience sticks deeply - to an extent that when a poem pops up in a novel that I' m reading... I'll skip it.

[Simslover92]

I hate poetry despite being a writer. I think there is some poetry that's nice but most of it is too complicated for me to want to read.

[RebelinSteel]

I like it and read some, admittedly some of it sucks.

[abc3643]

Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.

[Knightwatch27]

I actually enjoy poetry immensily and have written some myself, (amateur level of course). Favorites include Byron, Poe and Raleigh.

[loveslongnails]

Some I like, some I don't. Prefer to read it.

[Booklover_90]

Ehh…I’m indifferent regarding poetry. It was a necessary part of my major. 😖

[Ani_Axiom]

A guy wrote a poem for me once. Poetry haunts me ever since.

[Ani_Axiom]

Lana Del Rey’s poetry also haunts me, but in a good way.

[handsomelad70]

I like poetry and have written some (crappy) poetry.

[OtterMan68]

I wrote a lot in my younger days, but haven't in years

[Jay-_-]

I don't dislike poetry it's intriguing and I personally would prefer to read it.

[FenixG45]

I LOVE to read poetry and I write it! How about you?

[Xia1994]

I just like poetic lyrical music.

[eagle1951]

well I write it and have been Published

[NathanDavis]

it's funny

[yuviii20012]

I am a poet... I love it

[TheSpaceGnome]

Hate it.

[Sam12348]

I like it

[Sam12348]

I suck at writing so just reading