Poetry is an art, like everything else.
Every written word has it's own certain flourish and wit that put together in a particular order can make the person writing seem interesting. Poem, story, short story, article, journal, letter, arguement...each a different medium, a different guise and canvas.
For me, poetry is the essence of soul-songs. It's like an impressionist painting compared to the more traditional works of novels and such. It can be as bold and stark as a naked figure or as illusive as a gentle smog tightening a grip of death on some alien land. It can be as recogisable as you please and there aren't really many rules to it all unless you decided to challenge yourself.
Sonnets, for example. I
The rules are: -
It must consist of 14 lines.
It must be written in iambic pentameter (duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH).
It must be written in one of various standard rhyme schemes.
I have only ever written one sonnet and it was rather...bad. I stick mainly to free verse because I can experiment as my whim fancies.
Poetry - for me - takes all the thoughts and memories and emotions and ideas that are locked inside your head and pulls them gently out of your head and lays this though-thread on the table in an all manner of swirls and hieroglyphs that translate as words.
For me, poetry is the essence of soul-songs. It's like an impressionist painting compared to the more traditional works of novels and such. It can be as bold and stark as a naked figure or as illusive as a gentle smog tightening a grip of death on some alien land. It can be as recogisable as you please and there aren't really many rules to it all unless you decided to challenge yourself.
Sonnets, for example. I
The rules are: -
It must consist of 14 lines.
It must be written in iambic pentameter (duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH).
It must be written in one of various standard rhyme schemes.
I have only ever written one sonnet and it was rather...bad. I stick mainly to free verse because I can experiment as my whim fancies.
Poetry - for me - takes all the thoughts and memories and emotions and ideas that are locked inside your head and pulls them gently out of your head and lays this though-thread on the table in an all manner of swirls and hieroglyphs that translate as words.
I write mainly free-verse, I used to belong to an internet community of poets who would invent their own styles and then the rest of us would road-test them.
I still write some poetry, but not as much. I'm focussing on being an author for now- I've already had one poem published, it's time I did the same thing with a story.
GreenDayCookieFairy, April 2nd, 2007 at 02:37:10am
I admire people who can write poetry. Because, unfortunately, I cannot.
vonny, April 2nd, 2007 at 01:55:05am
I love poetry, and it's very much an art form. I love how you can interpret one thing so many ways, like this one poem I read about two diverging roads, because you can apply to life so many different ways. I love it.
Funky Platypus, April 1st, 2007 at 07:59:29pm