What Im wondering is if the art of poetry has too much license in the free verse genre? Yes all things evolve in time but poetry today seems to be stuck in the notion that anyone with an idea can write it down and call it poetry. Shouldnt poetry be about more than just stream of conscious and actually incorporate meter, tempo, rythme and style? Isnt that the art of poetry? The thought and work of finding the best words to espress a complex thought with elegance and symetry? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
2008-05-10T19:34:51Z
Here are two I wrote this morning over coffee. I dont have a lot of knowledge of poetry. I just write what I feel.
Someday Someday you will know the truth about you Someday you will know what you put me through Someday you will faint and swoon Someday you will wail at the moon.
You Deserve each other You are the moth flapping against his flame He does not love you You merely amuse him and worship his name The ones who love you You regard with the same impatience until we are few You believe your mind is oh so tame You believe it is innocent as dew Everything you think is just more of the same How can I know if its you that I knew?
geekedaj2008-05-10T14:52:19Z
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i enjoy reading poetry... but i can't use big fancy words to describe anything like these other people have. sometimes you need to just write what you feel...and feel what you write! don't sit and think so hard on it that you don't get across what it is you're trying to say... but that's from a person who doesn't use all those big words....
There's plenty of bad poetry being written today, but there always has been.
All good poetry contains rhythm, word-echoes, tempo and some kind of style. What you seem to be arguing for is >regular< rhythm and rhyme schemes. I don't agree that this is the only way to write good poetry and if you look at most American poetry since 1900 (or before--check out Whitman or even the KJ Bible), you're sure to find poems to respect.
As for complexity of thought and elegance and symmetry, I disagree. Some of the greatest poems express very simple thoughts, and not all are elegant or simple. Reading a poem should be an experience, and the poems I like best give a visceral experience, as much or more than an intellectual one.
I ditto, Sher and Neon. Is there not poetry, formal, informal, colloquial as well. Neon once used the metaphor of a baseball league, all players major, minor. yet all poets.
I my self am an unschooled poet, as was Grandma Moses an unschooled painter. Still I have a need to flow and pour out what is within, what does it hurt on this sounding board to post, read what you want to read and let the rest go, Don't answer what you alone think is below you. The fun is in the learning and the giving and passing it on, The joy and fun of it all, It takes courage to bare your soul no matter who you are, let alone those of us on shaky ground. A day of blessings to all who find the magic of the pen that moves on.
Yes, I agree to a point. I think it should definately have a flow and rhythm....but personally I do not prefer rhyme. In all of the rhyming poems I have attempted, I felt stuck in saying what I truly wanted to say. Not saying that I don't appreciate rhyming poems that do sound unforced, though
I appreciate all forms of poetry, as long as it has a message, amazing imagery, or jerks my emotions.
I thought all forms did. Perhaps what you read needed more editing. It is enjoyable to try different forms and experiment. Rap..hip hop, are they not poetic in rhythm and sound? I would encourage more experimentation. The audience will decide in the end. Good question though.