Poll: Quick!Make a Poem!

[Nouw]

It's pretty damn fun to rap some of these.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I have chlamydia,
Now you do too


Beautiful isn't it?

A hilarious poem, I will treasure it forever.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Do you ever wonder why prose id the way it is?
Its because somebody says it needs to be one way
I don't like following that way
So I'll do it in my own

 

[Silverfox99]

*Snip*

Relax it was just a fun poem written as a joke.

BTW, Poetry and literature does not have to follow the rules of writing. There are novels with out a single period in them or any punctuation. If there is a rule of writing I can point out in literature where that rule has been broken. It helps to create an effect for the overall work. In this case I was being lazy, but was that on purpose?

Yeah stuff like that does get published, but not often, and usually only by established writers because people in the field seem to give leeway to established writers.

My advice:

Don't take any creative writing classes in college and use that mentality with your writing. Every professor I've had in the field (they are published of course because one can't be a full professor without publishing) would disagree with you. If I had written a poem like yours for one of those classes, I would have had red ink all over it with additions of commas, periods, and capitalization of the beginnings of each line.

Edit: I was just playfully joking about the errors your poem, I know this thread isn't serious. Though my advice in this post is serious.

The weird thing about your advice it was a college professor that helped me to see how arbitrary grammar can be. It was while taking a class called 'The history of the English Language'. After the class was done and after I had a better understanding of how many rules of grammar were forced upon English, I no longer cared as much to use correct grammar. I care more about being correctly understood. Grammar can help with that but sometimes it hurts and makes English more confusing. Also, from my creative writing experience, it was the teachers that cared more about content and didn't pay much attention to grammar that were better at the craft. They only called out grammar mistakes if it made the work confusing.

 

[SonofaJohannes]

Man of misery
Cease your talk
Of hopes
And dreams

Man of misery
Take a walk
Away from life
Ignoring the screams

 

[Sonic Doctor]

*Snip*

The weird thing about your advice it was a college professor that helped me to see how arbitrary grammar can be. It was while taking a class called 'The history of the English Language'. After the class was done and after I had a better understanding of how many rules of grammar were forced upon English, I no longer cared as much to use correct grammar. I care more about being correctly understood. Grammar can help with that but sometimes it hurts and makes English more confusing. Also, from my creative writing experience, it was the teachers that cared more about content and didn't pay much attention to grammar that were better at the craft. They only called out grammar mistakes if it made the work confusing.

Wow, you had quite a different experience than me in "History of the English Language". For me that class was abysmal, I didn't learn anything like that. The first third of the class, the class learned about Old English mainly through some workbook exercises, and then we had to learn how to correctly read and recite Old English. The test for that was that everybody one by one had to get up and read an Old English passage from Beowulf; we were graded one how well we pronounced things and other little points about reading it. The second third of the class was the same as the first third, except that it was own Middle English and the test was to get up in front of the class and read a passage of Middle English writing properly.

Then the last third of the class we had to get into groups for a big debate night. We had three subjects to debate about so there were six groups and three debates. My group debated that technology in some ways has started destroy some parts of the English language and has been of a hindrance to many students and other people. Then one night, everybody was required to drive to the professor's house, because she wanted to have the debate there, like party-dinner/debate night. I didn't get back to my campus apartment until midnight.

On your creative writing classes, I'll just have to say that the professors at your college were different than mine. My professors pointed out grammatical mistakes first then looked at content. Their reasoning was that writing needs to look professional if you want to get publish, and grammatical errors are unprofessional. Plus they would shoot down any notion that errors can be made on purpose for the sake of some artistic angle, because they believed saying so was even more unprofessional because it would make the writers look like they are trying to hide the fact that they have bad writing skills, technical-wise. I guess they looked at it as that if a grammatical error could make at least one person confuse, then corrected, and to make sure, always be correct. I guess I take what they said seriously, because they have been published. Plus they always talked about how they asked their agents and the people that read and selected their works for publication, what should they tell their students is the number one thing they should know about getting published? And everyone told those professors that perfect grammar came first when selecting for publication, that if they found mistakes with the grammar they would throw out the submission immediately, because bad grammar to them is a sign that the writer isn't serious about being published and working with people to get publish.

Well, that is my two cents worth, but as I said, we went to colleges that had two totally different standards when it comes to writing.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Roses are red,
Cats ate my glue,
Someone just fell out the window,
Next I'll push you.

Moral of the poem: Don't stand near windows when I am in the room.
Edit: Incidentally, I dislike poetry. Can't deal with it, never understood the stuff. Can't stand it.

 

[PayneTrayne]

On the Escapist there once was a thread,
Where every half wit could empty his head.
Haikus were quickly posted,
and their writers all boasted.
While we realize poetry is dead.

Haikus are quite odd.
They often don't make much sense.
Refrigerator.

Garage sale today.
Ginger kid for sale, for you
Half price, lacking soul.

 

[aaronobst]

lol these are all limericks

 

[Cavan]

Stand behind clouded eyes,
feel their mind,
and watch their skies.
See the world in sunrise.

Treated thoughts of stolen demand,
know the flame,
and know the hand
left what doubt to understand?


There's a rule of thumb to never share poetry, luckily the internet is full of people who feel no problem with telling you you're bad if you're bad ^^. Then again who expects genious in 5 minutes of typing?

 

[Scabadus]

Some don't like Haikus,
But I have more sense than that,
So here: an artwork.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

See the happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn.
I wish I was a moron,
My God! Perhaps I am!

Borrowed I know, but it takes me a little time to do my masterpieces

 

[Vornek]

The computer screen light my face,
after my enemies i chase.

With an over-sized weapon equipped,
with a shoulder that's been chipped.

The union is disrupted,
The enjoyment interrupted.

"The sun is out,
you should be up and about,

enjoying the warmth it provides,
you are disappointing me."

Our opinions collides,
and though you cannot see,

Outside is not what appeals to me,
ah life, I've learned to love and enjoy thee.


Yes a bit weird, but hey. This is my argument to people who think that i'm weird. (although not in poem form ofc.)

-V the Viking

 

[Heart of Darkness]

I was once asked
to write a poem in a escapist thread

little did i know
the op was drunk and half-dead

finals were looming
the time was all spent

with nothing to turn in
the teacher would be bent

so the op used their head
and posted a popular thread

found one that made them content
turned it in and to sleep they went.

You have sentences without capitalization.
You have lines without punctuation.

Poetry is like any other written word.
It must follow the rules of writing, though correcting you makes me sound like nerd.

While capitalization is indeed true,
Not all lines require punctuation
And are sometimes the better for it.

Punctuation denotes pause, a lapse of time,
And not using commas or stops
Is a direct continuance to the next line.

You don't need perfect grammar or form, either;
You can break all the rules.
As long as it's done with purpose
and understanding of convention.