Topic: Calling all poets!

I dabble in the haiku arts too:

I need some more friends
Internets, my hideaway
Forever alone~

Would you listen to a song if it did have rhyming?
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No. I have taste.

I wrote this yesterday..........

I only tip a dollar at Denny's!!!!!!!!! F*** with me!? Come at me bro and I will waste you!!!!

It's better when I do it live, you can feel my heart on it but I think you can feel the art on paper too. n_n

@WaltzElf

I'm sorry. I just can't see how an article about the history of Romania is considered poetry. There is no structure, just a bunch of sentences broken up randomly.

That is not what poetry is about.

Let me give you an example:
A Dream Within a Dream (Edgar Allen Poe)

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Do you really want me to critique your poetry, tendoboy?

That has some rhyming in it.

No, because I know you don't like rhythmic poetry. You just told me yourself.

I'm just stating that I appreciate classic poetry from the likes of Poe, Hemingway, Shakespeare, etc.

Poetry doesn't have to rhyme.

Look at T.S. Eliots Preludes, stanza IV:
"His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.

I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots."

The rhyming structure is:
a, b, c, b, e, a, f, c, g, h, i, h, j, k, l.

Each line of the poem doesn't have to rhyme,
Heck, the poem doesn't even have to be in time!

So do I. But they're all dead. Literature has moved on. Poetry is not about stuffy rules these days, and forcing stuff to rhyme.

Wow, this makes it seem like you know nothing about poetry.

[reads Tendoboy's poems]

Now I know you don't know poetry. D:

Then why are songs still written in rhythmic patterns? If rhyming is dead, then so be it.

I know about classic poetry. Read some Edgar Allen Poe and come back to me.

Song lyrics are a different art to poetry?

I'm a published poet, when I'm not copy pasting from wikipedia. I'm not Prince.

Though that would be awesome.

I know about classic poetry. Read some Edgar Allen Poe and come back to me.

You're not Edgar Allan Poe.

Don't lick that Goomba
It will give you common colds
Just squish it instead

Don't eat a Cheep-Cheep
They taste like buttered mudpies
Unless you fry it

Don't punch the Shy Guy
He will fight back and beat you
He shoots dang bullets

Should I not post here?
Anymore, that I'm saying
Bleh, haikus equal mad

Oh I'm sorry I thought this thread was calling all poets not calling all people who are well versed in ancient archaic poetry and can copy their styles.

So sad man. You have no heart, especially for the arts.

Maybe I am not artistic in the ways of words but most of Waltz stuff just sounds like articles split into sections (no offense) just how I see it. But in the end Poetry is still an expression, so I don't think there are any specific rules behind it, involving structure and rhythm. As I said I am not poetic.

Though really everyone here should just stay on track. There's nothing more that I hate, when there's a good thread going on, and one person comes in and posts their "lul I'm funny" response and then this train wrecks the whole thread into a pit of randomness and chaos.

Carry on youngsters.

Every knows about classic poetry.
For years and years many praised it.
But to be able to write your own.
Without making some people groan.
That's a skill which you may need to learn.

www.wikipedia.org

Type in "Cat" and "Romania". It impresses me that anyone believed that I was doing anything but making a point

A song is just poetry that is sung to music.