Do you like poetry?

I like some poetry but I always have trouble understanding the true meaning the writer is trying to express.

Interesting post Michelle! It's really cool that you wrote a book! I read the previous comments and it reminded me of when I went to college...just a few years ago. I never really understood all that was taught about meters and things. I would read the poems required, and make lame attempts to write my own poems for the classes, but they always turned into disasters. I never understood the whole concept, really. I guess looking at it now, as writing from the heart or soul, I might be able to churn out something that at least one person would like. I still read poems from time-to-time, but haven't tried to write one since school.

oh...i love to read poetry...i promise u i will buy ur book and read it.

I love reading and writing poetry. I have been doing it since I was a young girl. I also write my own greetings for my homemade cards that I make for family and friends. Do you cover a wide variety of subjects when writing your poetry or do you mainly stick to certain ones?

I started out writing poetry. Before we ever got a computer, I would sit as our desk and bang out my poems on an old 1950's manual typewriter. I thought I was doing a great job until we finally got a computer and I found out that the writing world saw rhyming poetry as an amateurish venue. It was probably 3 years before it dawned on me that I needed to write what it was that was in my soul, and not what everyone else deemed as being "right".

yes i do, ilike a poetry...

not really.

I more than love reading poetry. I relate to verse more than I ever could relate to prose. At times, I even think in verse...seriously. And yes, I do write too. Though i call my writing 'My Thoughts'. Mainly because i don't think they conform to any rules of poetry. A critique may tear my writing apart, but it still is remains a reflection of my thoughts. In the last year of so, I have written over 400 verses. Most are short pieces. But hardly anyone has ever read what I have written. The thing is, my writing is so personal, i feel i am letting someone peep into my innermost self when they read what I write. Besides my family, only a few others have read my writing and though they have asked to publish it, I have often told them to get in touch with my sister about publishing them posthumous ha ha ha.

I like poetry as well. I find it to be relaxing to read, for me poetry is kind of like reading a fictional book with a deep intellectual under tone, that leaves you inlighten.

When I was in my late teens/twenties I used to write a lot of poetry, but it was always in the middle of my sleep. I would wake up in the middle of the night grab the pen and book, which I kept handy and start writing. After I had finished I would just turn over and go back to sleep. In the morning I could never remember what I had written in the night and had to read it again to remind myself. Nowadays, I have started writting again, but this time round I seem to write it when I am in a conscious state. It is certainly a good way of expressing ones inner feelings.

Congratz it has always been my dream to be published.Um i like poetry but it really depends what it is about and well i used to write it in high school but I havent done it as much.