Do you like Poetry?

Poetry - A book representing "poetry" or a person writing or reading one.
United States
March 27, 2007 5:51pm CST
Do any writers write writing poetry? I always think of it as so hard to find the right words to rhyme and to make the melody of a poem "work" for me.
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• United Arab Emirates
27 Mar 07
nope i am nor a poet but i do like readin poetry!
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• United States
21 Apr 07
I think I would prefer to read poetry as well, but if I wrote it, I wouldn't write like a Romantic, just my writing style.
• Philippines
16 Apr 07
gone are the days when writing meant every end word had to rhyme... nowadays, poetry is the expression of how you feel... it is unlike prose where everything has to be chronological, and logical... poetry must come from the heart, and as such, you write by the way you feel.
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• United States
21 Apr 07
I'm glad the poetry community is not as strict about poems being required to rhyme like they were centuries ago. I do think writing from the heart helps make your writing stronger.
@chuggs (314)
• United States
28 Mar 07
I do like to write poetry, though I haven't in quite some time. It is sometimes hard to rhyme, but keep in mind,a poem doesn't have to rhyme. Just write your thought and feelings and you have a poem, whether it rhymes or not. Good luck with you writing.
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• United States
21 Apr 07
It is true a poem doesn't have to rhyme, but people often make a big deal out of poets like Keats and Wordsworth who did rhyme...
• United States
28 Mar 07
I love writing poetry. I usually write more in free verse form. Sometimes my poems rhyme really well and the whole thing flows. Other times I write something that doesn't really flow, but its in poem form and really sounds beautiful the way it is. I feel that poems don't always have to rhyme to be touching.
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• United States
21 Apr 07
Free verse can let your mind explore more and give you the creative latitude that a fixed rhyme scheme does not.
• India
29 Mar 07
A poet not born, nay prepared The springs make one and the cuckoo's cry But I did make an awful one An 'umble flick of sensuous bleat
• United States
21 Apr 07
Good verses. Do you write poetry a lot?
• United States
2 Apr 07
I write poetry on occasion. Sometimes it rhymes, other times it doesn't. Just depends on what mood I'm in and what seems to flow best at the time. Poetry definitely does not necessarily need to rhyme to be good.
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• United States
21 Apr 07
Good poetry uses language clearly and has a concept explored with depth and care.
@kuirqs (512)
• Philippines
6 Feb 08
I like to write poetry, I am more comfortable writing it than prose. I do more of free verse than metered ones. I just write what I know and the words just flow. Sometimes, though it may take me some time before I get the right word, but it all comes together in the end. I even joined an online writing community. Poetry is very popular over there, it has the most submissions. Check out http://onestopwriteshop.com ...There's a lot of poetry (& other genres as well) that you can read over there...maybe even make you inspired to write!
@sunita64 (6469)
• India
22 Apr 07
Well poetry is one thing which happens naturally to me , for some of my poems you can visit my profile and see the website. Hope you will like them. I usually like to write about real life situations or on relationships.
@romesh143 (165)
• India
5 Apr 07
There are many forms of poetry but the soul of the poetry is its thought.What one wants to convey through his/her verses is matters only.The high worth of the poetry lies in the fact that poetry approaches near to the universal than history.The aim of the poetry is to represent the universal through the particular and to give a concrete and living embodiment of a universal truth.So there must be philosophical explainations of your ideas to make your poem/poetry meaningful and good one.Merely the arrangements of words or rhymes cannot be called a poetry.These thoughts must be natural.As John Keats quotes "If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all." I am not discouraging you at all.Please keep trying .I hope you will do better.Don't worry about rhymes and words.
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