Anyone write poetry?

[danieljaypark]

Wrote several over the years for school but I just finished one today, a sonnet, just cause, and I don't think I'll be able to stop.. Found a new passion I guess.

If you do share them cause I want to read them haha.

[dented]

I wish I could write
in rhythm or rhyme.

But challenged I am
and don't have the time.

My life is full
and I am devoid of pen.

I can't remember where
and sometimes when.

My mind plays games
And fools me so.

I could write poetry
But with a pencil though.

[Justinvs]

Just messing around or occasionally a poem for my wife, but yeah I do attempt it now and them. Actually had two short poems published in a couple of SciFi magazines,but it's been so long ago I don't think I even have them on my hard drive anymore.

[' burn 08]

Sometimes. It seems like when I do though, it's never just one. Like, you start to get going and it just comes. While I can write in rhyme and verse, I prefer free verse. Waltman-esque you might would call it. I haven't written any in a while, and I would have to look up some to post. And I probably wouldn't be able to find one I like enough to post. Something about coming back to them later that makes you look at it a different way.

[thunderbyrd]

"Does thunderbyrd write poetry?"

i used to write it
i don't no more
cause when i would read it
people was bored.

[String Tree]

I like Japanese Haikus. But mine are in English.

5 syllable
7 syllable
5 syllable

So many voices
Opinions often differ
T D P R I

[danieljaypark]

Lol guys come on. I know you guys are hiding some real good stuff.. No one's here to judge.

Let's see them!

[Westerly Sunn]

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[DeepSouth]

You never would know it
that I am a poet.

[DeepSouth]

Your poems are excellent Westerly Sunn

[Westerly Sunn]

Thanks!

[P Thought]

Good stuff, Westerly Sunn.

When I started out teaching English, poetry was low on my list of favorites. But one time I had my class working on Shakespearian sonnets, probably in conjunction with Romeo and Juliet or Julius Caesar, and I noticed something. Students would start with a line, get it working in iambic pentameter, and put another one with it, and then. . . .

As I watched my students work and rework their lines, trying to keep a central idea going while maintaining a rigid formula for rhythm and rhyme, changing lines and word order to make end rhymes work, adding "bump" words or using apostrophes to make the rhythm right, I saw something beyond their plaintive expressions of frustration: they were aggressively manipulating language. In an English class, that has to be a good thing.

Since that time, though not so much with the Shakespeare, poetry has become a central part of my class, year 'round. We read poetry, learn about the poets themselves, read about writing poetry, and write our own poetry. Students learn to mix language, rhythm, and emotion in a way designed to evoke a response from a reader or listener.

When I assign a poem to my students, I try to write my own poem in response to the directions. Adding in the poems I've written additionally as inspiration struck, this has resulted in a pretty thick collection of poems. Some of them are great, and some of them suck. The funny thing is, I don't know if we would agree on which were which, because a poem's meaning is always found on the reader's end.

I save the poems after each assignment. During the last week of class, each student puts together a "chapbook" containing the eight or ten poems s/he has written through the year. Almost everyone has at least one or two jewels in his collection, some have more.

[Tony474]

There was a young man named McNameter,
Endowed with both length and diameter;
Though it wasn't his size
Gave the girls a surprise,
But his rhythm - iambic pentameter.

[jjkrause84]

Fine, fine, fine.....here:

Up Big Springs Road

We walked up the street, with nerve
And a couple cans of Steel Reserve
Before we stopped and looked back
From the rocks by the railroad tracks
At the city, its twinkling shine
As sirens punctuated the night
And the silence of the speeding cars
Clothed us in the dark above the freeway

But the night was a rental, youth a hotel
That charged by the hour
Each new one more precious and dear
Costing more time and money and beer
We never really thought it would end

[P Thought]

My collection's buried somewhere in the rubble of school in the summertime, but here's one of my favorites, best I can remember it:

Joe

If we brought the Mona Lisa
to class, and set it
on the chalk rail,

You would laugh and throw
paper

And if Leonardo himself
came into the room,

You would flex your smile
and throw f-bombs,
until we all understood

That you weren't taking
no renaissance crap
from no damn skinny genius.

[jjkrause84]

Excellent P Thought!

Straight out of the beats!

[thunderbyrd]

Originally Posted by Tony474

There was a young man named McNameter,
Endowed with both length and diameter;
Though it wasn't his size
Gave the girls a surprise,
But his rhythm - iambic pentameter.

gentlemen, we have a winner!

[ianasdfg]

When I try to rhyme

It's a crime