cat
bat
that
hat
rat
shat
matt rug
dug
snug
shrug
drug
hug
lug
thug guy
high
buy
try
cry
die
my
It rhymed therefor it MUST be poetry
rhyme isnt necessary for poetry, and poetry is not always the result of rhyme.
anyway, you might like e.e cummings.
The Cubist Break Up (6)
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War (5) [read it aloud]
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yunnuhstan
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duhSIVILEYEzum
Poetry is essentially a pre-cinematic art form. Who writes poetry these days? The trick to poetry is to make words sound more profound than they really are. If you fuck about with grammar a bit people think you are revealing something original and ubiquitous, it’s a fucking joke.
Totally
resonating with
the truth essential
2
that statement
totally
Lots of folk. Carol Ann Duffy is about my favourite poet still writing. And of course, any song writer is writing poetry to music (though it tends to be lazier in construction).
Thats what we call bad poetry. Good poetry uses grammar fucking (or more usually sound effect fucking, or text layout fucking in e.e cummings case) for an effect; to evoke a certain feel in line with the poem’s message. Really good poetry often uses a combination of effects to reinforce its meaning.
Poetry can use these effects for emotional and intellectual responses and can have a very definite goal. “Dulce et Decorum est” for example. Or it can be very ‘catchy’, like a nursery rhyme, and even then can have a definite goal, like advertisement jingles, and alot of nursery rhymes were originally political propaganda.