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Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:04:17 2018 No.10881161 [Reply] [Original]

What makes a good poem?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:06:14 2018 No.10881168 >>10881161 Diction

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:25:45 2018 No.10881231 Spending 10 lines saying something that requires 2, and trying to make it sound deep.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:28:07 2018 No.10881243 A poem comes from the heart, speak it without any motives straight from the start Try to copy, be something you're not, or play the role of some part And everyone will see your expression is not really art

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:31:05 2018 No.10881255 >>10881161 Fidelity to meter (or rhythm) Something worth writing about Imagery

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:34:52 2018 No.10881272 What are some down to the fucking point poems without any vague flowery language?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:35:18 2018 No.10881274 >>10881255 Meter meter, rhythm and sea saws, back and forth, teeter Cadence and grace, showing your true heart and face Courting haste dreaming of lace

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:36:24 2018 No.10881281 >>10881272 What is the point of nature if not for flowers? Delicate skin, scented and nourished by showers

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:37:52 2018 No.10881285 >>10881281 How about some trees? You won't get stung by bees

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:41:42 2018 No.10881306 >>10881285 You are gay Now go away

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:43:36 2018 No.10881314 >>10881306 Very good. Down to the point, expresses true feelings and no vague flowery language. 10/10

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:52:29 2018 No.10881360 >>10881274 What about prose poetry?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 15:53:36 2018 No.10881367 >>10881272 Bukowski.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 16:05:55 2018 No.10881422 >>10881360 Prose can also be pretty as a rose. Images don't conform. I like rhythm, constructing sound. Suns set. Wind storms. I just like writing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:12:38 2018 No.10882008 >>10881161 ABAB rhyming Free verse is low effort, low quality

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:19:46 2018 No.10882032 >>10882008 Yeah personally rhyming is what makes it all fun Especially when there's no timing and you naturally talk and see it done It's the sweet sugary lining to a cinnamon bun Otherwise perhaps you're just whining thinking you're saying a ton

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:31:09 2018 No.10882065 >>10881272 Wilfred Owen

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:33:53 2018 No.10882082 >>10881161 Knowing how to read it. Using meter and prose can help the reader depending on their skill

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:37:29 2018 No.10882099 Some want to be poets Someones knows it Some won the know of it Some of one likes to show it The prose no one wants of it

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:39:20 2018 No.10882106 This thread is fucking hilarious, no wonder nobody here writes poetry yet constantly bring up Rupi to feel superior.

Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:40:28 2018 No.10882112

It did happen cause I think I remember
Of one time I was deep in slumber
A place like sunny little september
Had fruit dripping its gracious nectar

But it has since been forgotten
And
Some do say
One such as I
Were but children
In a holy play
Where we were
Out in the garden
A place we fought and sang
For our forgotten eden

And here I is what I have to say
I had a vision of an endless time
Were we danced in our slumber
For those that were blind
And here was no winner
For all took to a graceful mind
And spoke about the one
Who
Who says all is mine

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:42:55 2018 No.10882122 >>10881422 thats not prose retard

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:45:12 2018 No.10882134 >>10882122 Prose: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure There was a bit of meter just cause I can't help myself but I wouldn't go as far to call me a retard lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:46:53 2018 No.10882144 >>10882112 I like this anon :'). For editing sake I think you meant "where" instead of "were" on your 9th line

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:47:51 2018 No.10882148 >>10882134 Bro, please try to loosen the need, your ego is bold and it seems to be bald of any thing that I could see to redeem, admit a miss take, make no mistake , and listen to my know.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:50:55 2018 No.10882166 >>10882148 Wtf you talking about lol? I think I have the freedom to just write the way I wanna write, prose or not, meter or no meter. I'm just expressing myself. What does "listen to my know" mean???

Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:53:02 2018 No.10882178

>>10881272
Some of Ezra Pound’s more imagist early stuff, haikus, William Carlos Williams.

In a Station of the Metro
By Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

William Carlos Williams
So much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:54:44 2018 No.10882185
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>>10882166
Holy molly, buddy oh hey, I have you say if you say is true, this a play, a fun for sport oh buddy you know why, if you think you can ryhme and dine, your plates to full and your ego is out of its mind

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 18:58:28 2018 No.10882206 >>10882178 I like it! Check out Shel Silverstein she has some good poems!

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 19:00:11 2018 No.10882215 What to do What to do I dont want to fall Fall Down In love with you

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 19:01:45 2018 No.10882225 >>10881272 >Here dead lie we because we did not choose >To live and shame the land from which we sprung. >Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, >But young men think it is, and we were young. t. A E Housman

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 19:10:33 2018 No.10882260 >>10882225 >when you understand how you age never really lets you die

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 19:47:40 2018 No.10882400 This thread died fast lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 19:57:11 2018 No.10882442 >>10882008 >not AbbACC rhyme

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 20:04:54 2018 No.10882473 I am a man with a rind Of ego on its little behind I show my ass And wiggle it true I am an ass Alone Without a lass And I Have the sass in tune Oh i am an ass

Anonymous Thu Mar 22 20:10:22 2018 No.10882495

>>10881161
poetry is a lesser form of thought, it has no merit beyond making people realize something a la Zen poetry or divinely inspired mystic poetry like Blake or Milton's. Outside of poetry in dramas like Oedipus or Antigone, or in tribute to a God or great men, Pindar and Orpheus, its worthless. People who write poetry as an exercise or worse as some way to get attention, express their feelings or make money, are subhumans. Phil>Social Commentary>Aphorism>Poetry (under the conditions I've laid out>Music>Math>Science>Lit>TV and Film

You can argue with me about math and science the rest isn't negotiable. I might put math higher but I think mathematicians are dangerous when elevated above their natural station

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 20:13:25 2018 No.10882518 >>10882495 >hasn't read a poem since highschool

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 20:15:42 2018 No.10882528 >>10882495 >doesnt understand poetry is the ultimate freedom of litetature I say i have you understood as but a boy, with a father of no artistic deed. :)

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 20:18:49 2018 No.10882545 >>10881161 A preponderance of pedals upon a desert flower A twinkling shimmer from sunlight cast on a huddle of dull stones A clarified soul within the detritus of man A poem among shitposts

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 22 22:48:01 2018 No.10883232 >>10881161 Words that draw your attention which cannot be immediately deciphered.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 03:05:29 2018 No.10884183 Bait: the thread

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 03:07:20 2018 No.10884195 File: 67 KB, 645x729, 1516818674422.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10884183 Gape; Your head

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 03:09:02 2018 No.10884202 >>10881161 Good usage of language

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 03:52:42 2018 No.10884324 >>10882545 Ah, the lovely mountain bike flower.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 03:53:44 2018 No.10884326 DICHTEN = CONDENSARE

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 04:00:34 2018 No.10884346 >>10884324 Kek I was washing my car when I wrote that

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 06:16:55 2018 No.10884617 >>10881272 The tiger [Spoiler]Yes YES[/spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 06:30:04 2018 No.10884641 >>10884202 Prove it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 12:54:01 2018 No.10885780 >>10884641 How

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 15:59:30 2018 No.10886539 >>10881231 But that's literally prose.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 16:00:49 2018 No.10886545 >>10881161 spoonerisms

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 16:01:34 2018 No.10886548 >>10881231 stop posting on this board please

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 16:03:17 2018 No.10886556 >>10881243 Gay as fuck. Do you write on an iPad in the corner of your apush class?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 16:07:20 2018 No.10886573 >>10882148 >>10882185 God youre such a faggot. Reads like every miami/NY Latino wannabe rapper-poet. I bet you wear beats by dray as a fashion accessory.

Anonymous Fri Mar 23 16:07:55 2018 No.10886577

>>10881272
Philip Larkin

High Windows by Philip Larkin

When I see a couple of kids
And guess he’s fucking her and she’s
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise

Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives—
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide

To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,
And thought, "That’ll be the life;
No God any more, or sweating in the dark

About hell and that, or having to hide
What you think of the priest. He
And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds." And immediately

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 17:27:21 2018 No.10886888 File: 28 KB, 898x409, 1519340638830.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10886573 How some one reads something is not up to the writer, but the intelligence of the reader

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 17:30:04 2018 No.10886902 >>10881161 You.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 17:36:43 2018 No.10886935 >>10886888 he's right tho

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 17:38:30 2018 No.10886944 >>10886935 Sure no doubt, but the prose isnt bad, just the ryhme scheme is a tad annoying.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 23 21:20:00 2018 No.10887842 Phat rhymes.

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