A thread to discuss poetry

[sceptical guy]

Amid the obscenities and dissing of people around this topic

I still fail to see any evidence of any poem being dissed… :?

much ado about nothing? :-

This thread tells you a lot about the people here.

Some are very insecure and unconfident about themselves.

And a couple have no care about poetry but know how to stir a pot

[Annette-Curtain]

@tinks wrote:

@jen_jen wrote:

So you only want people to say a poem is lovely even if they can see room for improvement?

not at all…….it would be nice for people to post their poems and for them to be read, accepted for what they say and not picked to bits by someone who had nothing to do with the writing.

I couldn’t agree more Tinks. Well said!

[Annette-Curtain]

@sceptical guy wrote:

Amid the obscenities and dissing of people around this topic

I still fail to see any evidence of any poem being dissed… :?

much ado about nothing? :-

This thread tells you a lot about the people here.

Some are very insecure and unconfident about themselves.

And a couple have no care about poetry but know how to stir a pot

Stir a pot? Oh indeed ! ……. You certainly know how to do that.

Why can’t people just read the poems end of?

I didn’t realise this was a lecture / teaching Board.

* walks off shaking head in amazement at the lengths some will go to, to point out they don’t like a poem Jeeeeeez!* :roll:

* waits for the lecture I am sure to get explaining about the purpose of the boards :roll: *

[sceptical guy]

*calmly waits for evidence of one poem being dissed?

[Annette-Curtain]

@sceptical guy wrote:

*calmly waits for evidence of one poem being dissed?

Dissed? I assume that is slang for disrespectful …… I really have no idea what it means… but then it would seem I am thick… because I know nothing about poetry either.

What I do know is on the poems Thread Mellow posted …..all I see is you nit picking, fault finding , and generally being a complete ar se in your comments.

No, there is nothing wrong with constructive criticism – In the right place.

I’m sure Mellow never envisaged such a back lash of put downs about the way he/ she did the poems. I know I certainly didn’t.

Your sarcasm has reached new levels …. Maybe you should re- read all that you have posted here regarding poems , and the writing of . But of course, you won’t ….. as it would appear ( to some ) that you are the expert on such things… so who am I to even suggest such a thing.

Can no one post ANYTHING without you delving into why ‘s and why for’s all the time? :roll:

I appreciate we all have an opinion …. But why, when all someone did was post a few poems , did you have to dissect them ? Could you just not have read them ….and if you didn’t like them , so what? I expect there are others that maybe didn’t particularly like them .. but they haven’t gone on and on about it… trying to teach others to suck eggs all the time.

Fgs even Tinks has deleted the one she posted …. I can’t say I blame her.. imagine all the discussion about it if she had left it there….. ( you should have done this …..I suggest you do that blah blah blah ) there is having an opinion , and there is sarcasm and arrogance. Neither of which was called for.

I repeat …….. It was Poetry thread Simple as that ….. and if you had read it properly, you will have seen the reason why Mellow posted it.

[a certain sadness]

I agree to a certain extent annette but if you put up anything on a public message board you have have to expect a diss once in a while. Its the nature of these places.

Generally i would keep quiet unless i really liked something then i would say so.

Of course i would like to see more death,sex and bondage poetry rather than the light and fluffy.

Its rather like mozart to me…

[sceptical guy]

cert, you can help me…

which poem has been dissected by me here??

I can see none, though I have written a lot about the need for rhythm

and I really am not an expert in poetry. John Hollander could knock me into a little box and still go home in time for breakfast lol

[a certain sadness]

I didnt read the whole thread scep so i couldn’t really say.

We all suffer a narcissistic injury from time to time…better to just move on and up.

[sceptical guy]

I think there are others who should take your good advice, cert…

it would be nice to know if anyone feels I’ve done them an injury with their poem, though; maybe message me if they want to keep it out of the hands of the stirrers…

But moving on and up, anyone can write a good poem. You don’t need to know the rules of verse, any more than a musician needs to be able to write musical notation.

You can take iambic pentameter and alexandrines and stuff them in a cup, put it away in a cupboard. The rules are there to be broken..stick to them rigidly and you write a bad poem, in fact.

All you need to dance is a sense of rhythm. All you need tow rite good music is an ear for it (John Lennon couldn’t write musical notation, I believe!). And an ear for some sort of rhythm is all you need for a good poem. Just write them, nobody here is dissecting them.

[Annette-Curtain]

@a certain sadness wrote:

I agree to a certain extent annette but if you put up anything on a public message board you have have to expect a diss once in a while. Its the nature of these places.
Generally i would keep quiet unless i really liked something then i would say so.

Of course i would like to see more death,sex and bondage poetry rather than the light and fluffy.

Its rather like mozart to me…

As I for one , know to my cost, from past experiences here ….. But Goodness me , all of that because of someone’s poems :roll:

As for the death,sex and bondage poetry… I would suggest a website for that …. but I thankfully , don’t know of any :wink: :lol:

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