Poetry

[Dazed and Brutal]

Lately I've engrossed myself in the material of Edgar Allen Poe and am finding a new love with poetry. This thread is for anything about poetry. Talk about your favorite/least favorite poets. Share your favorite poems or your own personal poems (pussies). Humor is allowed...

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Poetry is retarded.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

So is having down syndrome...

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
poems are gay,
so FUCK YOU!!!

 

[skeptik]

I hate 99% of modern poetry.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
poems are gay,
so FUCK YOU!!!

This is my favourite poem. Easy.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

I don't how you can like music and not like poetry. Lyrics are often poetic (though not poems) and the phrases and words that make up poems convey feelings just as melodies and rythym dictate the feeling of a song. Modern music originated from Greek poetry and the scales that were created because of their way of speacking in rythym and pitches so stop being fags.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

I hate 99% of modern poetry.

I don't think I even know any modern poets. I've heard slam poetry and I think that's fucking dumb as shit.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

I don't how you can like music and not like poetry. Lyrics are often poetic (though not poems) and the phrases and words that make up poems convey feelings just as melodies and rythym dictate the feeling of a song. Modern music originated from Greek poetry and the scales that were created because of their way of speacking in rythym and pitches so stop being fags.

1) Blast beats
2) Riffage
3) Screaming

I could care less what thier actually saying as long as it's evil or disturbing or gory.

 

[skeptik]

I don't think I even know any modern poets. I've heard slam poetry and I think that's fucking dumb as shit.

I took a contemporary poetry course a little while ago, and I found some of it to be decent...trying to remember some names. Adrienne Rich had some decent stuff. Sylvia Plath. I did like one poem Amiri Baraka did called "Facing It." I actually wrote a paper on it for the class. It's funny, a few years ago Amiri Baraka was appointed the poet laureate of New Jersey, and then he wrote a really controversial poem about 9/11 (among many other things...not the most neutral poet), and instead of getting rid of him, the state got rid of the position. So now New Jersey no longer has the position of poet laureate.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Alright, I'll check those names out, especially Amiri Baraka.

 

[AchrisK]

Here is a poem I wrote years ago. It is loosely based on myself at a certain point in my life.


Escape from Escape

I have planned an escape for myself
Reality is way too boring
Either that or it just hurts too much
The retardation of my awareness
Has created a mental haze about my life
A haze that makes it hard to see
The reasons why, and who is me
Escape from escape is what I now need
But to escape would mean to change
To give up the life I call my own
Or possibly to see the pain that dwells in me
Psychological addiction pulls at my brain
The Physical one tears at my flesh
It all seems like so much to even think about
So I won't

 

[~Neurotica]

A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

\m/

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Writing poetry is a good way to connect with yourself and to reconcile with personal inhibitions. I'll post some of my shit once I get back to my house and get to my notebook.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Writing poetry is a good way to connect with yourself and to reconcile with personal inhibitions. I'll post some of my shit once I get back to my house and get to my notebook.

 

[The Ozzman]

Set in Stone

These cryptic writings
you set in stone
help seal your fate
This pocketwatch relationship
ticks away,
as I drink to forget about
all the lies you told
and all the things that might have been

 

[Skepticism]

Thread starter, you are right, Edgar Allen Poe is amazing. I'll post one of my poems up soon. It was inspired by a book, and there was one part in the book that really effected me, a magnificent scene the part was.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

It's funny, a few years ago Amiri Baraka was appointed the poet laureate of New Jersey, and then he wrote a really controversial poem about 9/11 (among many other things...not the most neutral poet), and instead of getting rid of him, the state got rid of the position. So now New Jersey no longer has the position of poet laureate.

Silly poets and their outspoken political views.

 

[~Neurotica]

I was learning by heart one of the huge Edgar Poe's poems - "The Raven". Just for myself. Man, this is an awesome shit.

 

[~Neurotica]

^ Nice. Radiohead would like that