YOUR THOUGHTS ON POETRY

Poetry is beauty, release and expression.
I like poetry because I see no limits, I'm allowed to write about whatever, whenever and however.
I'm not sure I understand the question.
We have poetry so the people who think deeper about life and life situations would enjoy it.
I love poetry

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because I see no limits, I'm allowed to write about whatever, whenever and however.

I hate it.
It's the most pointless thing in the world....

Yeah right, whatever! Lol.
Nah, seriously. I love it. It's a release.
It's just too beautiful to describe.

i vent a lot of feelings I have for people, attitudes I have towards things in my poetry and I feel that I can disguise those views slightly with words so people will never really know what I'm saying, but instead interpret it in their own way

poetry is you expressing your thoughts and feelings about something or just giving people a certain message, its like writing books in which you just melt into. some poems are happy, some are sad, others creepy and gloomy, them some yet flowery and pretty. i like poetry cause it gives me freedom to write about the things in my mind. and you should know that all my poems are cenciere and my own alone. just like writing poetry, drawing gives you complete freedom of mind. more people should know how to write deep, thoughtful and heartbreakingly beautiful poetry like we do here and poetry is good for relieving yourself from mental pain. some people use poetry that way. anyhow...poetry is good and we all know that

I only ever write it if i can't stop thinking about someone. Basically, i write it about them.
And i hate keeping feelings to myself. Poetry is a way to express them.

So, mostly i write love songs.

I think its the best way to express yourself about whats going on in the world adn your feelings. It may sound stupid but lots of people like reading poetry on someone elses feelings..

It used to be a source of venting for me, and I didn't exactly appreciate it. When I was "depressed", I'd write. That was it.
But now...It's grown to be something vital to me. I write every day, it's pretty much become a part of me. I don't read poetry as much as I write it, but it's something that is incredibly under-rated and needs to be appreciated more.

Poetry is to vent, I think. It's what I use it for most. It helps stop me from getting angry and blowing up on people [though I usually do it anyway >___<]
I usually don't post it on the internet though, I'm afraid of critism.

^^ *nods*
Poetry's definately underrated and needs to be appreciated more.
*nods some more*


Uhm, anyway...

I love poetry.
It's just indefinite beauty.
And it can be a vent or a way to express yourself
in so many ways.
That's why I love it.
It shows the inner part of the personality of a poet,
the part most people don't see in life,
and that's where all the beauty within lies.

poetry helps me to cope with things.

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Poetry's definately underrated and needs to be appreciated more.
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Poetry is indeed underrated. I come across poems that are much more beautiful than the crap I hear on radio. So this makes recording artists overrated too.

Poems do not have to be in Iambic Pentameter 100% of the time.

imtwasidwelya:

Poems do not have to be in Iambic Pantameter 100% of the time.

What's that?

Oh, and I think Poetry is VERY underrated.

Sure there's books full of them, but do we ever really hear those poems outside of books? No.

Definitions of Iambic Pentameter on the Web:

* The most common verse line in English poetry. It consists of five verse feet, with each foot an iamb-that is, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Shakespeare’s plays are written almost exclusively in iambic pentameter.

imtwasidwelya:

Definitions of Iambic Pentameter on the Web:

* The most common verse line in English poetry. It consists of five verse feet, with each foot an iamb-that is, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Shakespeare’s plays are written almost exclusively in iambic pentameter.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

Thankies.

Definitions of poetry on the Web:

* literature in metrical form
* any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user and audience to differ from ordinary prose.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry


My poetry does not allways appear metrical except for in syllables within a few lines on occasion.

Forms of Poems If you find a better link submit it.


http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poeform.htm

It's poetic.

"It is impossible to define poetry, only to define what is not poetry" - Anonymous

Nevertheless, I have trouble crossing that line and I will write stories that are more like poetry even though they fit the category of story

I think poetry is just a tool to describe the undescribable. People here just type up thoughts and make it rhyme. I think poetry is used for when you are feeling something, or saw something that impacted you to where it's impossible to describe. Poetry is how to describe the undescribable by use of creating an atmosphere.