Poetry.......

[Peteman]

Poetry is an art that has been used for many many years. Some people like to look back at old poetry and read and almost experience what the poet intended so long ago. Poetry has also been use historically as a way of expressing feelings such as "love" *never heard of it*, through song and written verse.

But times change, and poetry must change. We are about to hit the year 2000, information communication is improving and expanding faster than ever, and people don't have time to read anymore. Are you sure you're going to make it to the end of this page? We all sit at our screens with a wealth of info in front of us that is so great we could never divulge it all. So how does poetry fit in to the internet-space-age? Well thats for us to decide between us. I believe we have to split poetry into genres, or categorys. Historic, Romantic, Political, Satirical - there are thousands of potential categories - and we must judge them in their own right. There will always be categories that don't appeal to us, and others that we love, as we're all different with different taste.

So next time you read or write a poem, think twice before you start. If you don't like poems written in old Scots language, don't read them, they'll bore you. If you don't like loved-up poems, side-step them, they'll make you sick. I think I'm trying to appeal to the writers here though. Think different. Think millenium, think "poetic license".

OK, so I've written a bad essay here, but what I'm trying to say is this....

Poetry
its snot about
doing stuff
cos some dude called
burns did it.
Burns is the wirey, sleazy,
rich powerful hook-nose
in The Simpsons.
Should be Clintons.
He
makes
breaks
shakes
the rules.
Just Do It - like nike
but different.
No roses, poses, love
in unhealthy doses.
Your verse can
crash/bang/spam
someones screen.
Confuse/Use/Abuse
your reader
make them scream.
Cos if there aint no
rules
you canny breakem.
FINDSOME
BREAKEM

I bet many of you read the "poem" instead of the essay-format text above. If so, point proven. The point? Who knows. I'm lost already.

[This message has been edited by Peteman (edited 24 October 1999).]

[dclor]

Well, Peteman, I guess as one who also writes long essays (okay, okay, dissertations!), I DID read your message from top to bottom. But your point was a good one. Poetry IS the expression of an individual from the inside out. I do the same with singing. Write and read for what it does for you and consider it an extra blessing if it touches others around you. A good poet who stops writing is like a river that's all dammed (spelling?!) up. The water gets stagnant because it isn't flowing. There is an awful lot of talent at this site and people need to remember that just because they don't see someone's response doesn't mean it wasn't there. God bless. - Diane (*stepping down from podium*)