general Is anyone interested in Poetry?

[Coffee 4,320]

If you do, what inspires you about it?

Edited September 13, 2023 by Starry Sky

[Splashee 28,537]

I am not really interested in it. But there are a few texts I have heard which are really dark, and very cleverly made.

[Cagey 4,205]

I like a handful of poems, and I sometimes like writing poetry, although I’m no good at it. 

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,410]

I have written my share of it before, though the quality isn’t all that great. As for reading it, I enjoy a lot of poems. I love The Road Not Taken.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,631]

I actually really hate poetry. I never have, I don't like how they're written and they never seem to read properly for me.

[TBD 17,228]

I like reading poetry mainly the classic dark ones. Edgar Allen Poe as example. I also like/enjoy writing my own too as well along with writing song lyrics.

[Dreambiscuit 8,024]

I like some poetry. A lot of it can be rubbish like any other art form, but the good stuff can be glorious. I love to write song lyrics, which may be a little different than writing a poem for poetry’s sake, but the mechanics of it are still enjoyable.  

[zoloft 116]

Yes! I like reading random poems that I find here and there rather than sticking to just one poet or one book. But I do have a favourite poet, which is Charles Baudelaire. Here's an example of his way of words & feelings:

Quote

One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters;
That’s our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time’s
Horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows
You own, you must get drunk without ceasing.
But what with? With wine, with poetry, or with
Virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.
And if, at some time, on the steps of a palace, in the
Green grass of a ditch, in the bleak solitude of your
Room, you are waking up when the drunkenness has already
Abated, ask the wind, the wave, a star, the clock, all that
Which flees, all that which groans, all that which rolls,
All that which sings, all that which speaks, ask them
What time it is; and the wind the wave, the star, the
Bird, the clock will reply: ‘It is time to get drunk! So that
You may not be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk;
Get drunk and never pause for rest! With wine, with
Poetry, or with virtue, as you choose!

 

[Splashee 28,537]

My IRL friend has a book with some very cool texts in them. He read one for me (since I have trouble reading books), and it was very well constructed. You really have to think a lot to understand the meaning behind some poetry.

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

I’ve written a few things and made some unfinished verses beforehand but I wouldn’t say I’m super interested in it. Mostly I just read others’ poetry and see if I understand it. Sometimes it’s pretty good.

[Clawdeen 12,109]

It’s become the biggest way I express what/how I’m feeling.