to anyone who sacrifices the artistry of a poem to splatter their feelings on paper,

FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU FIVES TIMES WITH A CHAINSAW!!!you don't understand art if you don't understand it takes time and practice and that poetry is just like any other art form in the sense that it takes time to get good at it. you can't spend a year writing poetry ( Read more... )

"In an effort to get people to look ( Read more... )

drinking cranberry juice from a wine glass
as they drag the body through the next room.
she noticed later when her eyes grew sore
from looking at the computer too long.

EVERYONE, I have discovered the world's first SENTIENT POEM!!!!! unfortunately, it seems to have come from the mind of a very drunk gangsta ( Read more... )

Well color me cotton ( Read more... )

( A Critical Response to Poe's Most Definitive Work )

I realized yesterday why so many people live in the moment. it seems so obvious now, but the way it struck me was as if it just came to such clarity, such perfection, just bloomed in my mind so fantastically and in just the perfect words ( Read more... )

I just realized something.

poetry requires poetic devices. OH.

I have been writing prose with line breaks for far too long. 'tis time to reach into the true heart of poetry!

(I do wish line breaks counted as poetic devices, though. I also wish pretty words counted.)

( snippet of a peom )

I found a soul for my body today
a martyr of sin and strength
who bathes in whimsy and toils
in chance
mountain-shaker earthquake-waker
loves to dance

he's a figure of pennies and dimes
who likes change
he likes change
he likes change