Is poetry really that boring?
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eh? relationship desire and hate? not desire and love?Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:Hmm one of the easiest poems to remember ba
so simple and so apt.
Nothing to do with my current mood though, but perhaps something I identify with about relationships. -
God, I love this bit....
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. -
I like it when things rhyme. Have not been exposed much to poetry, but like to express myself with alternate lines that rhyme at the end. Does it comform to any poetry styles? As for reading and understanding some of the works of poets, i would have to struggle a whole lot before i actually 'get it'.
Well, really a price to pay for not being well schooled.
Yet to settle down to read 
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Long long time ago, like a few years back before google, what you said might be true... nowadays there is no need to struggle a lot. There are excellent websites where people discuss poetry.Originally posted by blue_blue_bedsheet:I like it when things rhyme. Have not been exposed much to poetry, but like to express myself with alternate lines that rhyme at the end. Does it comform to any poetry styles? As for reading and understanding some of the works of poets, i would have to struggle a whole lot before i actually 'get it'.
Well, really a price to pay for not being well schooled. Yet to settle down to read -
how to learn new words when i keep forgetting old onesOriginally posted by DeadPoet:
But you get to learn new words!
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You can start with Gilbert Koh at his blog.Originally posted by casino_king:Unfortunately if and when I do, I read only "dead poets."
I guess you are right maybe contemporary poets esp local ones might be more accessible.
I will give it a try and see if they are any good and see if their references are less obscure.
Any reccomendations?
You might want to check out Alvin Pang, Cyril Wong, Alfian SaÂ’at, Flex Cheong and Toh Hsien Min too.
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teachers are taught to teach us to pass... not to appreciate poetry... tat's the problem....
anw my lit teacher nvr kill me.. he just flunk me
seriously i started writing only when i join DPS... then again mine are the silly ones... hippo u no need to learn new words! -
I don't read alot of poems but I've observed that modern poems....... umm. What makes a poem? Some poems that people today compose look just like prose broken up into lines.
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Why don't you teach him?Originally posted by tare:hippo u no need to learn new words!
But the way I write silly poems too. -
It is entirely up to you.Originally posted by MooKu:Some poems that people today compose look just like prose broken up into lines.
Sometimes I just want to vent out my frustrations without thinking too much about techniques, etc. or simply just want to have some fun.
But if I am thinking of submitting it to be published, that is different story. -
strange, i think almost all my friends have dabbled in poetry at least once or twice in their lives.. doesn't mean they were any good.. but they did.. haha
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yeah it's like what I mentioned... some people compose poetry, or rather "poetry" that looks like it was done simply by writing something with a little flowery language and then breaking it up in random (or ok, to be nice, appropriate) places. And I think if we were to call these poetry it would really dilute the art.Originally posted by duke_argonath:strange, i think almost all my friends have dabbled in poetry at least once or twice in their lives.. doesn't mean they were any good.. but they did.. haha
or maybe they were just not well-written.
edit: or maybe poetry was or has evolved into a form of abstract art? like how somebody can put an egg on a piece of paper and call it art. -
haiku for me
short, yet profound -
have you heard of mooku?!Originally posted by alexkusu:haiku for me
short, yet profound 
moo moo moo moo moo
moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
moo moo moo moo moo -
Let's invite them to DPS (S)!Originally posted by duke_argonath:strange, i think almost all my friends have dabbled in poetry at least once or twice in their lives.. doesn't mean they were any good.. but they did.. haha -
Although the boundary between poetry and prose remind obscure but there is still hope; as Joan Houlihan in her reply to Fred Moramarco saidOriginally posted by MooKu:yeah it's like what I mentioned... some people compose poetry, or rather "poetry" that looks like it was done simply by writing something with a little flowery language and then breaking it up in random (or ok, to be nice, appropriate) places. And I think if we were to call these poetry it would really dilute the art.
“While I agree that it is basically impossible to successfully and fully define a poem, I maintain that it is possible to define a non-poem – by its lack of poetic conventions.”
In my opinion, if you write a prose using poetic devices, if you insist, you can call it a prose poem. On the other hand, if you write a poem in the manners as if you are writing a prose, it will remain a prose, nothing but a prose. -
Good taste!Originally posted by alexkusu:haiku for me
short, yet profound
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Check out womango by Grace Chia.Originally posted by MooKu:or maybe they were just not well-written.
edit: or maybe poetry was or has evolved into a form of abstract art? like how somebody can put an egg on a piece of paper and call it art.
I have mixed feelings regarding her poems. Have any one of you read this book?
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Originally posted by MooKu:have you heard of mooku?!
moo moo moo moo moo
moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
moo moo moo moo moo