• silverwhisper said on Sep 01, 2006....

  i used to write poetry but i found that my talents lie in prose, not poetry. i get rhythm but i feel too constrained by rhyme and meter. yeah, i know, there's other kinds that don't depend on those things, but honestly, there's part of me that doesn't feel right not using 'em.
  
  JMHO.
  
  ed
  

• purple said on Sep 01, 2006....

  I do admire writers like Tolkien or Shakespeare that could handle both prose and poetry.
  

• hotaka said on Sep 02, 2006....

  Sorry Purple. I know less about poetry than I do about painters. But like painting, I can appreciate a good poem when I read one. I think it is meggs who has that thing about writing a poem about your user name. I took a bit of time with mine and I think it turned out okay. meggs said she liked it. But I respect anyone who is good at poems. In Vancouver they have been running this thing called poetry in transit. Each year they select poems by local authors and print them on bus advertising sheets and put them in the buses. I have read some wonderful lines on those that really moved me. Sadly, I have forgotten them now.
  

• Susmaryosep said on Sep 02, 2006....

  Actually I don't like poetry, but i wrote 8 of them. 6 are posted in my blog.....
  

• secretlife said on Sep 02, 2006....

  I was an English major in college.
  I've read more than my share of poetry.
  
  I don't read it as much these days.
  
  I own Whitman, Frost, Dickinson, Dylan Thomas,
  TS Elliot, Shakespeare among others, and I do reach for these on occasion.
  
  I've turned my kids onto this stuff as well, although I'll tell you that only my oldest is really interested. Maybe the others are too young yet...I'll keep trying.
  

• purple said on Sep 02, 2006....

  That is one of the ironic things about college. Even the most obcessed reader often begins to hate reading because of all the college reading they are required to do. It's a shame that you go to school with a burning desire to learn and by the time you get out you'd rather toss a book into the fire than read it. There is something wrong with this system.
  

• secretlife said on Sep 02, 2006....

  oh purple I read constantly.
  
  I don't read classics constantly; but I do read allthe time.
  
  I read alot of fiction because that's what I love.
  I read contemporary fiction most often.
  

• Absatou said on Sep 23, 2006....

  I actually started being interested only few months ago. I like Sage Francis, Nikki Giovanni & Maya Angelou. But it took me time to like it. It's not obvious to like poetry. It can be hard to understand sometimes. It's also really complicated to feel something special.
  I really enjoy listening to it now. It's like listening to jazz or classicl music. It soothes me. I'm trying make some effort & discover other famous poets, beside the new writters I'm used to.
  

• purple said on Sep 23, 2006....

  I think it is hard to stand out as a poet. It seems there are billions of poets on the Internet. How does one make a name for themselves?
  

• redwine said on Sep 24, 2006....

  Sad to say I can't do any of those things. I'm very picky with my poetry and I haven't stumbled across any "new" poetry that I care for. I will name Richard Jackson. He's the creative writing professor at The University of Chattanooga. He is phenomenol. I try not to read all that much poetry, because I fell like it influences my style. But, in the words of the legendary Edward Abbey, "Poetry, even bad poetry, may be our only hope."
  

• silverwhisper said on Sep 24, 2006....

  i realize i never answered the original question: yes, i believe in poetry, w/ all my heart and soul.
  
  ed
  

• rhmagee said on Oct 30, 2006....

  I guess it all really depends upon what the poem is trying to make one believe. If the moral of a statement is truly believable then I agree that making it poetic could make it rather unbelievable.

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