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Losing the I is great advice Quas… sometimes when I’m too distraught I use it just to get out what needs to be let out, but those are usually the poems I stick in the archives or don’t post… those are more like diary entries. But we all do it, I think (use ‘I’, that is.. why do you always got a dirty mind…sheeshh). It’s fun to challenge a thought and not use I. The write always comes out better.. but of course those streaming poems… well, the I’s have a tendency to flow and sometimes that’s ok. After all, you start putting rules on poetry and it soon becomes anti-poetry… the kind of poetry that would be written by a guy who looks like he had an oaken shaft stuck up his ass… just sayin…
I think the best way to deal with writing poetry is to not get stuck in a certain form, certain style. Try different things. Rhyme.. no rhyme.. internal rhyme… acrostics… different line variations… scattering words around the page… collabs… old world.. modern… whatever. I know the writing group pages helped me out a lot there, challenging my view on words and putting them together.
Now the next phase of your write is gonna be… wait for it.… lose the ellipses… I can see it already.…
Yea, Just trying to help my poetically challenged colleagues.
Seriously, I poetry can be great it’s just that it’s not the only toy in Santa’s poetic sack.
hahahaha… yesss… santa has many treats in his sack…
I just lost all respect for all those poets
I thought
I knew
I could continue to read them… however
I just couldn’t live with the shame of knowing
I didn’t try to stop them from using the “I“
I am sorry oddpoet
I am oh so sorry
I think…
I will
stop
I yi Yiiii… Ya been sent by Demon Lords to torture me I see. It’s fun every once in a while to fuck with everyone. I dust a variation of the write off bout once a year. Intellectual stuff like You suck cock as a poet or why you blow and should kill yourself. They are always my most read writes. I usually put a caveat in where I say, “If you ask yourself, Is he talking about me?” I probably am. Thanks Man.