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Started by East Coast Hustle, December 16, 2004, 07:39:26 PM

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Cain


Wishfarple

Quote from: Chuck U. Farley
Quote from: YahtometI've been here for like, ten minutes, but maybe there should be one unified poetry thing? I don't think there's a reason to start a new thread every time someone spews out a poem.

I was thinking more along the lines of banning poetry completely, banning any user caught posting poetry, and finding their physical location so we can break their fingers so that they may never post (or even write) their shitty poetry anywhere else ever.

8)

Hotsuma?  'Zat you in there?
His Right Most Honorable Super Hella Reverend Llama Wishfart Rinpoche of the Church of Ed Gein (Deceased),
Temple of Cleveland

SaintBastard

kudos to vogon poetry

some of the best i've ever read!

on a less serious note....this DOES happen to be
the "literate chaotic"

poetry, coincidentally being a form of literature, happens
to be posted here. live with it.

or not.

you could peruse over them and never read a word for all i care.
that's kinda the point of art- the artist doesn't really care
anymore about what the public sees, the artist cares about just
the art.

i especially love how you blanket statement everything without
making the slightest query as to what any of them mean.

(as a side note and a plug- Family Album is a series of poems that
i'm going to put to music, detailing the stories of the greek gods- well, the
more sordid stories, at least...)

i do think it would be a neato idea though if we got a poetry
option on the posting (kinda like the sticky/poll options that are
there)

maybe some ideas can come from that







ps...i question that you read any of those poems. i certainly wouldn't
call those peoms "teen angsty".....(unless i was trying to piss someone off
hint hint)

gnimbley

MORE POETRY PLEASE!

Let the illiterate unwashed drown in a sea of verse.

Quote from: David Lehman
Poetry and prose are supposed to be opposites. Poetry is to dancing as prose is to walking, wrote Paul Valery. Poetry is gratuitously beautiful, prose is functional, utilitarian. Or poetry is patrician and prose plebian, pedestrian. Poetry is special, prose is ordinary...

I think in the future, for the benefit of the Turds amongst us, we should
place the word poem in parenthesis after the title of a thread to denote
that the thread contains a poem. And if this practice catches on, I, for
one, intend to put the word (poem) on all my threads, just in case
some wayward discordian poet might possible, sometime in the future,
add a poetic turn of phrase to said thread.

pphhbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gnimbley, a gnomish poet and damn proud of it.

~~~~Closed~~~~

I've said it once, I'll say it again.



Poetry.Sucks.

Zurtok Khan

One must have bullshit within to give birth to a dancing poem!

Or something like that...
Resistance is Fertile.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
-Mark Twain

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
-Mark Twain

Yahtomet

Quote from: gnimbleyMORE POETRY PLEASE!

Let the illiterate unwashed drown in a sea of verse.

Quote from: David Lehman
Poetry and prose are supposed to be opposites. Poetry is to dancing as prose is to walking, wrote Paul Valery. Poetry is gratuitously beautiful, prose is functional, utilitarian. Or poetry is patrician and prose plebian, pedestrian. Poetry is special, prose is ordinary...

I think in the future, for the benefit of the Turds amongst us, we should
place the word poem in parenthesis after the title of a thread to denote
that the thread contains a poem. And if this practice catches on, I, for
one, intend to put the word (poem) on all my threads, just in case
some wayward discordian poet might possible, sometime in the future,
add a poetic turn of phrase to said thread.

pphhbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gnimbley, a gnomish poet and damn proud of it.

You're polarizing again. It's not that "poetry" and "prose" are opposite. BAD Poetry is the Opposite of GOOD Poetry. Good Prose is the Opposite of Bad Prose.

Good Poetry and Good Prose can coexist peacefully.

gnimbley

POLARIZING?

You bet your sweet ass I'm polarizing!

The glare in here is blinding me.

POETS OF DISCORDIA ARISE!
THROW OFF THE SHACKLES OF PROSE!
You have nothing to fear but success!
You have nothing to lose but your dignity!
To the Ramparts!
To the Barricades!
To the Bermudas!
To the Triangles!

THIS IS WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LMNO

Wow, the gnome goes to war.
I've never seen that before

I wonder what will become of him?
Ya think he's been spending time at the gym?

I always knew he was a bookworm.
Don't try and shake him - his resolve is firm.

It's funny, I think, that Chuck (or is it Turd)
Is so upset at the rhymed (or unrhymed) word.

Methinks his sense of poetry is shot;
Must be because he smoked all that pot.

LMNO

In a related vein, I was poking around Live Journal, and some guy asked what I thought of his (bad) goth poetry (like there's any other kind), and in response I whipped this up off the top of my head (bad poetry alert!)

"Alone, I sit in the darkness,
My own head an echoing chamber of sorrow.
The cold metal parts my skin like a shadowy fin through icy water,
With Her words as the only sound, wailing dirge;
Mirroring my agony at this dismal existence."


Now I need a shower.

East Coast Hustle

I wouldn't dislike poetry, if it didn't suck so bad 99% of the time.

Besides, if you feel the need to put words to rhythm and cadence, why not take the time to learn an instrument and make a song out of it?

poets are just too lazy or unskilled to be musicians.

8)
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

Cain

Quote from: LMNOIn a related vein, I was poking around Live Journal, and some guy asked what I thought of his (bad) goth poetry (like there's any other kind), and in response I whipped this up off the top of my head (bad poetry alert!)

"Alone, I sit in the darkness,
My own head an echoing chamber of sorrow.
The cold metal parts my skin like a shadowy fin through icy water,
With Her words as the only sound, wailing dirge;
Mirroring my agony at this dismal existence."


Now I need a shower.

OMG teh emo!  "I feel so bad, boohoo my poor middle class existence, mum made me do my homework, time to slit my wrists....."AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGH!!!!!

And Ive just made another copy! Nooooooooooo!!!!!

Wishfarple

My tears crash down
Like sad thunder
Falling red like blood
I cry to the heavens

WHY GOD??

WHY, YOU SON OF A BITCH!??

He sends down a raven
To peck out my eyeballs

God's a total fucker.
His Right Most Honorable Super Hella Reverend Llama Wishfart Rinpoche of the Church of Ed Gein (Deceased),
Temple of Cleveland

LMNO

Quote from: Llama Wishfart Rinpoche

God's a total fucker.



Bwa-ha-ha!   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Thanks, man.  Now everyone in the office is looking at me funny.

EraPassing

I take strong exception to the statement that prose is plebian, ordinary, functional, and utilitarian.
Anyone can write a poem - just turn on your Internal Random Bullshit Generator, and make sure the last words of each line rhyme.  And if someone reads it and knows it for bullshit and complains that his time was wasted reading it, that's ok, the poet can simply say, "You just didn't get it, man," like the complainer is as ignorant as a lump of mud and the poet is part of some elite world where the heart feels more deeply and the mind sees more clearly.  Which is, in itself, bullshit.
But there are authors in this world whose prose can reach into your chest like a fist and squeeze your heart dry.  There are times when prose is not only more effective than poetry, it says more, and is harder to say.  How to express in plain words the myriad concepts of the world that there is no one word for?  That's a gift - it's a gift that the author is born with, and a gift given to his readers, both.

Poetry - pffft.
Elves suck.
Yeah, I said it, I went there.  Whatcha gonna do?