Are there any poets (or people who like to write poetry) here on Fluther?

Are there any poets (or people who like to write poetry) here on Fluther?
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i used to… but i got burnt out on writing 2 years ago and i havent really gotten it back =/
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Suggestions for slam poets to check out?

Description : Suggestions for slam poets to check out?

Last Answer : I don’t know anything about slam poetry but these poets appear to have entertained well.

Any poets whose works you'll recommend reading?

Description : Any poets whose works you'll recommend reading?

Last Answer : Where to start? Describe Turèll’s style and genre; there are hundreds of wonderful poets who write in English. @Janbb will tell you some of them.

Are there any budding poets out there?

Description : Are there any budding poets out there?

Last Answer : I was a poet, and did not know it source: forgotten Oops, sorry. Here’s mine: The cat sat on the fat hat. I hope it didn’t shat.

Why do poets sometimes have hidden messages in their poems?

Description : Why do poets sometimes have hidden messages in their poems?

Last Answer : Its fun!

What is most likely to inspire you to write poetry?

Description : What is most likely to inspire you to write poetry?

Last Answer : Absolutely nothing would get me to write poetry. I have a more concrete, prose-based, rational view of communication, and serious poetry is (or can be) abstract, idiosyncratic, and unreachable. About ... ever written is off-color doggerel in honor of a birthday or a wedding or something similar.

What inspires you to write poetry?

Description : What inspires you to write poetry?

Last Answer : sadly… Pain inspires me to write poetry.

What is Rainer Maria Rilke know for? His poetry, does it have a certain element to it that identifies him as a distinguished poet like one would see a Picasso and recognize the artist?

Description : What is Rainer Maria Rilke know for? His poetry, does it have a certain element to it that identifies him as a distinguished poet like one would see a Picasso and recognize the artist?

Last Answer : Why not pick a poet about whom you know something? Rilke is difficult, particularly in translation. (Do you read German?) There are scores of admirable and complex poets who write or wrote in English. I would say that avoiding the temptation to plagiarize is a very good idea.

When do words turn into poetry?

Description : When do words turn into poetry?

Last Answer : When they flow like music.

What are your favourite lines of unknown or obscure poetry?

Description : What are your favourite lines of unknown or obscure poetry?

Last Answer : answer:It’s impossible to tell what might be considered obscure by others but one of my favorite not very famous lines is: “And I walked abroad in a shower of all my days.” From “Poem in October” by Dylan Thomas

Can one be a writer of short stories without supporting poetry?

Description : Can one be a writer of short stories without supporting poetry?

Last Answer : answer:Seems to me that poetry is a different specie from short stories. I certainly experience them differently. Poetry seems to work with its timing much more than other written forms. I'm not sure if ... turn out poetry as well . if so remind yourself that is some demand for bad country songs !

Can you give us a single line of poetry that you find particularly moving?

Description : Can you give us a single line of poetry that you find particularly moving?

Last Answer : Mein Ruh ist hin; Mein Herz ist schwer. Ich find Sie nieder und niedermere Gretchen’s Song Goethe Loosely: My sense of peace is gone. My heart is sore. I’ll never, ever find it again. (corrections welcome)

Is the World Poetry Movement a scam?

Description : Is the World Poetry Movement a scam?

Last Answer : answer:Sorry to say, but most likely yes. I can find no reference to World Poetry Movement in my vast collection of legitimate poets market resources. There are many poetry sites and organizations ... scams is the Writers Digest Poets Market. The best and most reliable resource for poets.

Have your literary interests been influenced more by prose or by poetry?

Description : Have your literary interests been influenced more by prose or by poetry?

Last Answer : Prose has much wider selection and is easier to process than some poetry. But I love writing poetry when so inspired.

What are some creative ways to display poetry in your home?

Description : What are some creative ways to display poetry in your home?

Last Answer : I have never displayed it in my house,but I did slap one of my dad's favorites in a frame for him.XD I have put poems between the pages of library books for someone to find. I do have wooden boxes in my home ... in a sepulchre under the end table? ....Poe-em in a box?-I need to get a coffee -XD

Hey kids - April is National Poetry Month. Care to share a link or a line?

Description : Hey kids - April is National Poetry Month. Care to share a link or a line?

Last Answer : answer:I love that poem. So does most of the literary world. Try googling, This is Just To Say parody. This is one of dozens aired on a segment of This American Life. This is just ... mean them and you lost your damage deposit forgive me but revenge is so sweet so delicious and best served cold

What lines of poetry especially appeal to you?

Description : What lines of poetry especially appeal to you?

Last Answer : answer:One of mine: In the building of structure, where words lose whim. It’s the fresh bricks falling, that taste yellow to me. It’s the banana blue, under an approving moon. Where the path is laid out, and I’m carried by you.

Am I not understanding poetry or is it something else?

Description : Am I not understanding poetry or is it something else?

Last Answer : You’re not getting something.

Where can I post my poetry for free?

Description : Where can I post my poetry for free?

Last Answer : http://www.poetry-network.com/

Is there a poetry forum where I can post poetry to get feedback or just to share?

Description : Is there a poetry forum where I can post poetry to get feedback or just to share?

Last Answer : Try http://www.everypoet.org/ It looks like a viable forum. I might try it, too.

What will it take to end "Slam" poetry?

Description : What will it take to end "Slam" poetry?

Last Answer : Two possibilities: Something worse comes along that people latch onto, or slam poets realize that slam poetry is lame. Either way, poetry slams have been invented and therefore can’t be uninvented.

Who likes poetry? Does it make you emo?

Description : Who likes poetry? Does it make you emo?

Last Answer : no it doesnt make you emo. you’d have to be depressed all the time, cut yourself, and complain about life even though you have nothing to complain about to be emo.

Care to write a love poem for the lurving people out there in fluther land?

Description : Care to write a love poem for the lurving people out there in fluther land?

Last Answer : random acts of kindness-it couldnt hurt i told my friend he was awesome-it couldnt hurt i packed a note in my siblings lunchbox-it couldnt hurt i opened the door for someone with a wheel chair ... sleepover-i enjoyed myself i ate pasta- it was delicious random acts of kindness hmmm,-it couldnt hurt

Care to write a love poem for the lurving people out there in fluther land?

Description : Care to write a love poem for the lurving people out there in fluther land?

Last Answer : random acts of kindness-it couldnt hurt i told my friend he was awesome-it couldnt hurt i packed a note in my siblings lunchbox-it couldnt hurt i opened the door for someone with a wheel chair ... sleepover-i enjoyed myself i ate pasta- it was delicious random acts of kindness hmmm,-it couldnt hurt

Any Edgar Allan Poe fans here?

Description : Any Edgar Allan Poe fans here?

Last Answer : answer:Lol, incidentally I love Poe. I had a weird fascination with him and Gothic literature in high school. Where can I begin with Poe? It's been a while since I've read anything by him, but just ... Murders in the Rue Morgue I got through but it was just too weird for me. What about yourself?

Where can I find poems or quotations about poetry or poets themselves ?

Description : Where can I find poems or quotations about poetry or poets themselves ?

Last Answer : answer:Walt Whitman is a great start. He wrote: I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite ... harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy.

What is the poet's feeling towards mother tongue in Bangabani poetry ?

Description : What is the poet's feeling towards mother tongue in Bangabani poetry ?

Last Answer : Bangabani poetry expresses the poet's unique affection for the mother tongue.

Can ask-publicites write stories just like Dr. Seuss, or would that be like sticking my head in a noose?

Description : Can ask-publicites write stories just like Dr. Seuss, or would that be like sticking my head in a noose?

Last Answer : answer:You can ask your dad, You can ask your mother You can ask anyone Who lives on ask-public. The pentameter is bad The rhyming even worse When you get silly poets Trying to write verse. We could go for stanzas, Trying to be witty But the product of our work Will turn out really shitty.

Would you like to write a poem with me?

Description : Would you like to write a poem with me?

Last Answer : Sometimes when I’m feeling small

How was Emily Dickinson able to write excellent poems with her limited exposure?

Description : How was Emily Dickinson able to write excellent poems with her limited exposure?

Last Answer : I think it is because just because going somewhere different can help the imagination, that is not the real meat of the imagination and of writing. I think she was able to write the way she did ... have been an exciting adventure for her when for someone else it would be the same old boring stuff.

Can you write a poem? Now?

Description : Can you write a poem? Now?

Last Answer : fishcakes and lime taking time to give you some small part of me now you’re gone thinking anon the curry will do for tea

Do you write poems and for how long?

Description : Do you write poems and for how long?

Last Answer : I used to. Now I like to write hiaku’s.

how to write in iambic pentameter ?

Description : how to write in iambic pentameter ?

Last Answer : answer:a line of perfect iambic pentameter is a line consisting of 5 iambs . Meaning: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. (bum-BUM). String 5 of them together and that's pentameter (da-DA, ... (sonnet 18) or Two HOUSEholds BOTH aLIKE in DIGniTY.. (Romeo & Juliet, act 1 sc.1)

If they post memes like this, shouldn't they at least know the words?

Description : If they post memes like this, shouldn't they at least know the words?

Last Answer : answer:Yeah, it would help I suppose, although all thos bs things like that I usually ignore. Like when they show you a picture of something tragic, and then it goes on to say that if you don't ... , reminds me of chain letters. And I see people use the word meme for just about everything now haha.

Would you like to attempt a rhyme?

Description : Would you like to attempt a rhyme?

Last Answer : My darling, my honey, my soul mate, my lover You freeze off my ass when you hog all the cover.

Who's your favorite poet? What work of his or her do you like the most?

Description : Who's your favorite poet? What work of his or her do you like the most?

Last Answer : I don’t really read poetry much. But I always liked Robert Frost (the woods are lovely, dark and deep….) and Shakespeare. The former, because I love his poems, they put me in a contemplative mood. The latter, because I love his comparisons and play on words.

What does it mean if people have been getting their "messages crossed"?

Description : What does it mean if people have been getting their "messages crossed"?

Last Answer : answer:I haven't heard of someone getting messages crossed , but I think it sounds like it might be a variation of getting wires crossed , which basically means to misunderstand one ... as when telephone wires touched each other, messages could apparently get muddled up and rerouted incorrectly.

What is the origin of the word poem?

Description : What is the origin of the word poem?

Last Answer : Latin and Greek read this Poe was a great writer, but a drunkard and druggie.

Would you care to guess who wrote the following?

Description : Would you care to guess who wrote the following?

Last Answer : Joe Biden when he confused his Geritol with a bottle of wine?

What image(s) come to mind when you read this poem?

Description : What image(s) come to mind when you read this poem?

Last Answer : A vacuum.

Tell us about your "road not taken"?

Description : Tell us about your "road not taken"?

Last Answer : It's a good question (which is why you've maybe received so many GQs and no answers yet) but looking back on my life it's clear that I mostly took the obvious road that had been laid out for me, ... don't think I would be better off having made that choice, though. It's not all about money for me.

What is your interpretation of Stairway to Heaven?

Description : What is your interpretation of Stairway to Heaven?

Last Answer : I think…they were high.

Trying to locate a poem online about two women having vastly different lives- help?

Description : Trying to locate a poem online about two women having vastly different lives- help?

Last Answer : Will try

What is your opinion on this poem? How can it be improved?

Description : What is your opinion on this poem? How can it be improved?

Last Answer : The first thing that jumped at me was the confusing vagueness of “their”. Everything screeches to a halt, while my mind sorts through the list of 5 or 6 things, any of which might be the object of “their”. Which is it? Then we can move on.

Can anyone help me find the words to this ditty?

Description : Can anyone help me find the words to this ditty?

Last Answer : Is this it? Johnny was a chemist's son His head stuffed full of brains While Johnny's thoughts were rocket ships, Other kids' thoughts were trains Johnny's father noticed Johnny Seldom saw the light of ... ! Johnny was a chemist's son But Johnny is no more What Johnny thought was H2O Was H2SO4

Have you heard Mary Oliver died?

Description : Have you heard Mary Oliver died?

Last Answer : This makes me sad. I think she was one of Gailcalled’s favorites.

Meaning of this quote? "The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you’ve gotten the fish, you can forget the trap"?

Description : Meaning of this quote? "The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you’ve gotten the fish, you can forget the trap"?

Last Answer : What is done is done. Move on.

I have two all-time favorite quotations. What are yours?

Description : I have two all-time favorite quotations. What are yours?

Last Answer : I hate to get into religion, but my two favorite quotes deal with Agnostics. Darwin said: The mystery of the origin of all things is insoluble by us, so I, for one, must be content to remain an ... to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know that which other men say they are sure of.

What would you do and why in this scenario?

Description : What would you do and why in this scenario?

Last Answer : I think you might be able to do that tactfully and diplomatically if you can keep any personal opinions of the poetry itself out of the conversation. For example, you could ask, Who is your editor? ... someone to help put out the first edition. Most authors are blind to their own errors, after all.

Can you express how you feel about Trump in verse?

Description : Can you express how you feel about Trump in verse?

Last Answer : No.

I am looking for a ballad poem that is about 6 to 7 minutes long?

Description : I am looking for a ballad poem that is about 6 to 7 minutes long?

Last Answer : Try “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes (corrected by Jeruba.) Very rhythmic and a good story.