Poetry Anyone?

[swordtrainer]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone likes poetry like I do. I got a poem that I did for a school project published last year when I was 15 and that kinda got me into it. I write mostly dark or religious poems. So does anyone else write???

 

[DaN]

Poetry??

Haiku! :twisted:

 

[uberdark]

not necessarily in the sense of poetry, but more like prose, and such with short stories. i actually have enough done that i could get it published into a book. but i havent gotten the nerve up to get it looked at. hell it took me 6 months of lurking b4 i got onto this site.

 

[freakinacage]

there was a young man from devises,
who had balls of different sizes,
one was so small,
it was no ball at all
the other was big and won prizes!

tada


there was a young lady from ealing,
who claimed she had no sexual feeling
a young cynic named Boris
then touched....
anyway you get the idea. the answer from me would be a resounding \'no\'

 

[Sand Rat]

Back in my college days I was a regular and co-host of a weekly Poetry Open Mike - does that count?

 

[Gilvan Blight]

You know back in high school I was into it, wrote it, etc. I don\'t think I have even considered it since. I think poetry goes with Teenage Angst and once the Angst is gone so is the love of poetry.

I have to admit a fondess for a few poems though, like The Raven, Beowulf, the one where it repeats often \"Weary we hunting and fain would lie down\", and a few others. All classic stuff, nothing modern.

I remember aruging in highschool that music lyrics are the poetry of the 20th centry, and still kinda feel that way.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Gilvan Blight
I remember arguing in highschool that music lyrics are the poetry of the 20th centry, and still kinda feel that way.

That is so very true. Several Singer Songwriters of the 60\'s, 70\'s and 80\'s published their lyrics in poetry form.
You just have to take a look at the works of Joni Mitchell and Judi Collins to realise how accurate that statement is.
Msuic often allows the verse to be more open to understanding the rythym and cadence of the words.

As for \'mainstream\' poetry, over the years I\'ve enjoyed reading D.H.Laurence, Dylan Thomas, Auden, Yeats, Robert Frost, Omar Kayam and Shakespeare.

 

[Sand Rat]

Originally posted by Gilvan Blight
You know back in high school I was into it, wrote it, etc. I don\'t think I have even considered it since. I think poetry goes with Teenage Angst and once the Angst is gone so is the love of poetry.

Dear god yes - when I was doing the open mike, we usually got buried in the angst of young upwardly mobile college professionals.

 

[matty1001]

Benjamin Zephaniah would be my favorite poet. I grew up reading and re-reading his books:
Talking Turkeys
and
Funky Chickens.

 

[freakinacage]

ogden nash for kids. loved his stuff when i was a sprog

 

[frenchkid]

Not really into poesie but there are some that I like, the three that pop to mind are Paul Eluard, Aragon and baudelaire. The three beeing french I guess they aren\'t that well known here

 

[Naukhel]

I\'ve got somewhere in the area of 2000 pages of poetry I\'ve written hanging about.

Most of it is utter crap, though.

I\'m much better at short stories and such.

 

[farseerlum]

Originally posted by Gilvan Blight
the one where it repeats often \"Weary we hunting and fain would lie down\"

one of my favs too!

big lesson there, never trust a woman.

 

[Highbulp Billy]

I admit to owning a book of Kipling\'s verse (not cake recipes) - love the classics like If and Gunga Din. Every so often I\'ll be reminded of poems I\'d heard when I was younger and seek them out on the internet.

The only poem I can recite in full is Jabberwocky but I do like comic verse (including limericks laden with inuendo, and creative rhymes for Nantucket :twisted: )

 

[matty1001]

There was a young lass from nantucket
If anything moved she would....eat cake

 

[Highbulp Billy]

Originally posted by matty1001
There was a young lass from nantucket
If anything moved she would....eat cake

It\'s better than death! lol

 

[matty1001]

Originally posted by Highbulp Billy

Originally posted by matty1001
There was a young lass from nantucket
If anything moved she would....eat cake

It\'s better than death! lol

And you say I always bring these jokes into every other thread!

But il have the chicken please.