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Poetry
Jan 15, 2019 10:45:01 GMT -5
Post by usawoman on Jan 15, 2019 10:45:01 GMT -5
Hi all,
I wonder how many of you like poetry? I know that most of you might say no. Yet keep in mind that music with poetry with a beat. I write poetry and am proud of it. It shows my creativity. I was once part of a poetry group called The Broome Review. Some people make fun of poetry simply because they don't like it. Poetry expresses feeling. Some might be uncomfortable with that. Poetry is art. It comes from within.
Are poets born or are they taught?
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Poetry
Jan 15, 2019 13:30:16 GMT -5
Post by AGD on Jan 15, 2019 13:30:16 GMT -5
Poetry is something I was taught at school and "had to" learn for various exams but, perhaps surprisingly, I love it, including the poets I read for the exams - Wilfred Owen, Lord Byron and Chaucer. Since then, John Donne has become another huge favourite. I'll freely admit I'm not one for lengthy poems (thus, Wordsworth is pretty much a closed book to me), but Coleridge, Will Langland, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and whoever wrote "Beowulf" have a place in my heart. Poe too. But my #1 poet is A. E. Housman, author of "A Shropshire Lad".
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Jan 15, 2019 13:33:56 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 13:33:56 GMT -5
I like poetry. Admittedly I dont seek out new poems to read as often as I'd like (Im usually working on my own writing, and if I read it's usually novels.) Besides the stuff I shared on The Art Thread, here's some stuff I did while in college, experimenting with form. You'll have to forgive the shitty quality of the first. (I don't think Im a good poet, but I do like to get feedback on my work.) To answer your question, I think it's both. Great poetry comes from being observational and/or introspective combined with an eloquent vocabulary and/or willingness to play around with words on the page. I think one of those is inherent, the other can be taught.
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Poetry
Jan 16, 2019 3:16:42 GMT -5
Post by jay on Jan 16, 2019 3:16:42 GMT -5
I love poetry. I'm a fan of Robinson Jeffers, Walt Whitman, Byron, Frost, Dylan Thomas, and especially Edgar Allan Poe. I sometimes like to fancy myself as a struggling writer, and Poe is a huge influence.
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Poetry
Mar 10, 2019 5:33:50 GMT -5
Post by bittersweetsanity on Mar 10, 2019 5:33:50 GMT -5
Terminal Drone:
a distant cry, a loud echo. a saucy laugh, a lost memento. let her luv devour my soul. walk that path wherever i go.
in a field black and blue. a lavender aroma aroused by you.
she casts a shadow of delight. live my day for her night. fragile ecstasy, a sudden rush. a sensual odyssey, a soulful lust. she gives me all her faith & trust. pray it won't turn to dust.
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