Poetry

[Elite]

Does anyone write poems on here? Wouldn't mind giving it a go but need some tips.

[Bjornebye]

Roses are Red

Aswad are class

Dominic Cummings

has beans on a fry-up

 

 

 

[Captain Turdseye]

15 minutes ago, Elite said:

Does anyone write poems on here? Wouldn't mind giving it a go but need some tips.

Just speak from the heart, man. 

[YorkshireRed]

Just write and see where it takes you. You don’t need to follow rules, forms, types, structures etc. for it to be poetry.

 

If you write it, get something from the process and can live with the end product then you’re a poet.

 

If others read it and it provokes a reaction (good or bad) then even better. 

 

In the first instance, just write. 

[Kevin D]

18 minutes ago, Elite said:

Does anyone write poems on here? Wouldn't mind giving it a go but need some tips.

 

 

[Elite]

14 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Just write and see where it takes you. You don’t need to follow rules, forms, types, structures etc. for it to be poetry.

 

If you write it, get something from the process and can live with the end product then you’re a poet.

 

If others read it and it provokes a reaction (good or bad) then even better. 

 

In the first instance, just write. 

My poems end up boring as fuck though. What sort of triggers do you use to evoke emotion from the reader?

[YorkshireRed]

Just now, Elite said:

My poems end up boring as fuck though. What sort of triggers do you use to evoke emotion from the reader?

Who says they’re boring? Do you think that or has that been confirmed by those who’ve read them? Like all art forms, appreciation will be subjective.

 

I guess it depend on what you’re writing them for but I would always advise writing for you and then if others like them then that’s a bonus. If you write to please but don’t get what you need from it, then you’ll quickly lose interest and probably will end up being a lesser poet than you might have been. 
 

I’ve written poems that I’ve been really pleased with (I’m hard to please usually) and they’ve had little or no positive feedback from those I’ve shown them to. Others I’ve banged out in fifteen minutes and they’ve generated a lot of positivity so it’s really hard to tell what’s good and what’s not. 
 

What triggers emotion in you? Start with that. 

[Bjornebye]

On a serious note .....

 

what Turdseye said. Let it out through the ink. Under the candlelight. 

[Elite]

My heart ran wild when I laid eyes upon our child,

For it was hairy and fat,

It looked like a Cheshire Cat,

Despite looking like Garfield,

I embraced it into my arms,

Stroked it's chin,

Dinged it's bell,

I felt oh so swell,

But I asked you for a human baby my dear,

But you laid birth to a Norwegian forest cat instead,

Oh I realised, you've been shagging the local Tom.

Sad.

[Guest]

57 minutes ago, Elite said:

Does anyone write poems on here? Wouldn't mind giving it a go but need some tips.

I knew someone who wrote poetry after a life in gang culture. His poetry was written to reflect his former life in the hope that others would gain inspiration and hope through it. 

 

He said he wrote them as if he were writing them to himself as a child. 

[Captain Turdseye]

Just now, Elite said:

My heart ran wild when I laid eyes upon our child,

For it was hairy and fat,

It looked like a Cheshire Cat,

Despite looking like Garfield,

I embraced it into my arms,

Stroked it's chin,

Dinged it's bell,

I felt oh so swell,

But I asked your for a human baby my dear,

But you laid birth to a Norwegian forest cat instead,

Oh I realised, you've been shagging the local Tom.

Sad.

That’s pretty good. What’s the end game for you here? Will you be self-publishing?

 

I like limericks. 

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Elite said:

My heart ran wild when I laid eyes upon our child,

For it was hairy and fat,

It looked like a Cheshire Cat,

Despite looking like Garfield,

I embraced it into my arms,

Stroked it's chin,

Dinged it's bell,

I felt oh so swell,

But I asked you for a human baby my dear,

But you laid birth to a Norwegian forest cat instead,

Oh I realised, you've been shagging the local Tom.

Sad.

Or you could write about shagging cats. 

[polymerpunkah]

If it's not iambic pentameter, it's crap.

 

Nature seems to have inspired many of the better known poets.

 

Shall I comare thee to a summer's day...etc

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Captain Turdseye said:

That’s pretty good. What’s the end game for you here? Will you be self-publishing?

 

I like limericks. 

Could write a book or post them online somewhere, struggling to think where though. Definitely not on here.

[Pureblood]

To write the poem, you must live the poem. You are the poem, the poem is you.  

 

 

[YorkshireRed]

6 minutes ago, Elite said:

My heart ran wild when I laid eyes upon our child,

For it was hairy and fat,

It looked like a Cheshire Cat,

Despite looking like Garfield,

I embraced it into my arms,

Stroked it's chin,

Dinged it's bell,

I felt oh so swell,

But I asked you for a human baby my dear,

But you laid birth to a Norwegian forest cat instead,

Oh I realised, you've been shagging the local Tom.

Sad.

It’s ok I think. Trying to be honest rather than just blow smoke up your rear. I like the story, black humour and there’s probably a metaphor in there somewhere as well.

 

Its definitely a poem though and I’m sure many will enjoy it. 

[Bjornebye]

You've got to mention Jackie Scran. 

[YorkshireRed]

3 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

It’s ok I think. Trying to be honest rather than just blow smoke up your rear. I like the story, black humour and there’s probably a metaphor in there somewhere as well.

 

Its definitely a poem though and I’m sure many will enjoy it. 

p.s. It’s certainly not boring. 

[Captain Turdseye]

8 minutes ago, Elite said:

Could write a book or post them online somewhere, struggling to think where though. Definitely not on here.

Posting poems online is a skill

But the quality soon goes downhill 

When you post on a forum 

And show no decorum

By claiming you’re mentally ill

[ZonkoVille77]

I like Haiku's and Sonnets. 

 

 

[Elite]

There was a fat cunt that was hard as fuck,

He used to fight packs of wolves that tried on their luck,

He even fought a giant who hit him with a pan,

But there'll never be a match for good old Jackie Scran

[Captain Turdseye]

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Being sussed isn’t what I had planned

After previously having been banned

For filling the site 

With a mountain of shite

That the rest of you had to withstand

 

[Edward.]

Try blackout poetry. Google it. It's a good start.

[Paul]

4 hours ago, Elite said:

Does anyone write poems on here? Wouldn't mind giving it a go but need some tips.

Read loads and loads of poetry, if you don’t already. Also read Shakespeare. When you fully appreciate what he was doing with blank verse then the genius label seems like an understatement. . Experiment with metre and form. Know your punctuation and grammar inside out and then break some rules. Stephen Fry wrote a great book about poetry which is well worth checking out. It’s almost a guide to how to both read it and write it. But just read loads and then write loads. 

[easytoslip]

Did you ever hear about  did you ever hear about, Wordsworth and Coleridge? They where smokin' up in Kendal by the lakeside. 

Summertime in England, Van Morrison.