Other: Poetic nausea

[skreyola]

"It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance, and mystery than by facts." --Eleanor Roosevelt

Comments

[kadin]

Did you ever think that some of these people are not trying to write poetry..

but writing as the thoughts come instead?

[skreyola]

SONAR operators sometimes tell geologic activity from mechanical activity by the regularity of the sound. Judging by the regularity of the line breaks, I'd say that, although that thought has occurred to me, it seems unlikely that the formatting was not intentional.
Anyway, it makes for more difficult reading. Too many line breaks cause difficulty, just as too few breaks cause difficulty.

[glome]

You post made me laugh skre ... since you had recently visited my page :) I had to dash back and look. I think kadin is right some times. I write in short sentences because it's hard for me to follow such long thin lines across the page. It never dawned on me it would appear I was trying to do free verse or something. I rhyme to a fault in my poetry!!
Anyway ... you may have made a drastic change in my journaling :):)

[skreyola]

:)
I never got an email from this comment. Bad LJ! (Comments from people not on my LJ list are screened automagically until I've reviewed them).
I wouldn't classify your journal with those about which this post was made. I considered your journal to be a poetry exposition, with which I have no problem. Your poetry even rhymes, which is a plus. :)
Don't change! :)

[neven]

i agree that
breaking an incomplete
sentence
up into multiple lines
does not a thing poetry

though rhymes are
not always necessary

poetry is marked by the
clever, creative and inspired
use of words and word structures

format alone is not poetry

unless it actually says something

..which
in most cases
it does not

[skreyola]

Well, marriage is not love but a commitment and vow, but some people don't seem to understand that, either.
:)
I agree completely with you. :)

[neven]

Yea, kinda like the difference between personal revulsion and hatred. This anti-discrimination thing has gone too far.

I see we're in the same boat on this. :)

[skreyola]

We are on most of the important issues, aren't we? :)