Favorite type of poetry to write about...

[airblade]

I'm just curious about this, but what do you guys like to write about when it comes to poetry? Can you guys please be specific like "emotions", "scenery","life", etc. Is there an specific type of poetry that you guys like the most (to write about of course)?

For example, i like to write about emotions because i can find most of the time a way to relate myself to them. My favorite emotions to write about are "solitude","hate", "strength" and "passion".

Also is there any specific reason of why you guys usually write about it?

 

[PandoraGlitters]

I write a lot of poems about sex in the shower. Sometimes politics or the difficulty of not being able to really connect with people the way I'd wish to. Or weird science stuff I found out about on the internet. Usually sex, though.

 

[butters]

An interesting question, Airblade, and one trickier to answer than first appears. I had to go take a look back over some stuff of mine. Imagery, especially nature-imagery features quite strongly, and sound, but the topics covered are as diverse as the day's long. The onus shifts from emotional to intellectual to metaphysical to studies of human nature to downright silliness. I honestly can't choose a subject I enjoy writing about more than others. Each tend to come from left-wing anyway and I follow where they lead.


Sorry there was no straightforward answer for you, Airblade

 

[bflagsst]

Pretty much every poem I write I try to express real life sweetness, which sometimes ventures into the sappy. But I'm trying to hit like five poems that perfectly express real life human sweetness and sentimentality. Erotic, friendship, and love emotions mixed together. I can't imagine trying to talk about politics or religion effectively, I've tried, really uninteresting to me. Specifics? Try to transcribe things I've seen and heard into poetryland, like bedsheet over curve of hip, fluttering nostrils, facial expressions.

 

[greenmountaineer]

I started posting at Literotica just about a year ago because I saw it as a truly populist web-site. In time interested readers separate the wheat from the chaff and know which poets are likely to do a pretty good job at it. There are a few dozen here who are quite skilled whom I enjoy reading when I can.

I like to combine the spiritual with the sensual in a poem. I mean both in the most mysterious way. I am no fan of dogma, so you're not likely to see any lyrics that will be set to church music from me.

I also like to take jabs at hypocrisy, which gets me about as close as I ever want to be to politics, which I find is a difficult theme to master, perhaps because there are so many other ways to express it.

God, love, sex, and war pretty much sum it up for me.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

I'd say most of my poetic expression is tied to my emotions.
Having said that, though, there's still quite a range there.
Love poems, regrets, hope and recovery touch quite a few.
Again, my motivations vary. For expressions of loss and regret writing helps exorcise those demons. Others express my joy and appreciation. I'm generally the focus, my life, rather than observations of others or nature.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I envy you being able to write about your emotions airblade, I seem to be able to write poems just about anything but my emotions. I've tried and failed, perhaps, in time, I'll manage. I put as much emotion into my poems as I can.

 

[greenmountaineer]

Parmenides in New England

I have three maples above my house,
Actually more to one side,
And their leaves in April may blossom
Half the way eaves to rooftop.

I stare at those maples for some time,
Noting what the mind holds true,
Namely, all trees come up from the ground
To sum up their beginning.

But could they possibly be
Three thousand faeries with leaves
That fell on a breeze from aether
Where once their one seed floated?

 

[The_Fool]

I write a lot of poems about sex in the shower. Sometimes politics or the difficulty of not being able to really connect with people the way I'd wish to. Or weird science stuff I found out about on the internet. Usually sex, though.

Damn you. Damn you, woman. I was going to say that. Well, about the sex part anyway. Maybe we should compare perversions sometime.

 

[annaswirls]

I write a lot of poems about sex in the shower. Sometimes politics or the difficulty of not being able to really connect with people the way I'd wish to. Or weird science stuff I found out about on the internet. Usually sex, though.

you know, I never really liked shower sex. I one half of me always gets cold. Maybe I am doing something wrong

 

[annaswirls]

I find myself writing about the human condition-- shortcomings, fear, just plain ridiculousness, the hard side that many people hide, and of course the nice stuff too. Life is fucking up. A lot of fucking up and learning.


I suppose there is a lot of longing. That ache in the middle of my chest that wants to make things move forward or get it right, sometimes to go back to something missed.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

you know, I never really liked shower sex. I one half of me always gets cold. Maybe I am doing something wrong

Standing or some other position in the tub? There's a sufficient height disparity between me and her that she had to stand precariously on the edge. When lying down I could do lots of nice things with the water on her. Nowadays its tough on my knees, and there always was the problem of too much water ending up outside the tub.

 

[champagne1982]

you know, I never really liked shower sex. I one half of me always gets cold. Maybe I am doing something wrong

I like shower foreplay, especially if there's a handheld shower in the mix. Otherwise, I get nosefulls of water. I think any shower sex poem of my own would be more comedy than passion. However, I've written a voyeur poem that makes me smile at the memory for a different reason...

 

[ishtat]

I have written a fair bit about death and decay, not because I am particularly morbid but because when that is all that is left I have a clearer idea of what life is/was about. Whether that is effectively translated onto paper is another matter. I do sombre but not misery... that seems a bit self indulgent.

Otherwise I like messing about with words and doing nonsense stuff.

These days I write heaps then toss it away, maybe the process is better than the product.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

you know, I never really liked shower sex. I one half of me always gets cold. Maybe I am doing something wrong

Tried it last night didn't like ....... I'm with you on this one I don't like messy sex anyway. So there's something I DON'T write about slithering around and getting messy and yes showering is messy, bloody water goes everywhere

 

[Angeline]

Standing or some other position in the tub? There's a sufficient height disparity between me and her that she had to stand precariously on the edge. When lying down I could do lots of nice things with the water on her. Nowadays its tough on my knees, and there always was the problem of too much water ending up outside the tub.

Our new master bath shower is gigantic and has two seats in it. I see lots of shower sex in my future. I'm generally not a big fan of it when space is very limited, but there's all kinds of possibilities with those seats in there.

Oh I love to write about music, mainly jazz but all music. One thing I love to do when I write is try to make all the sense references strong enough so that the reader can hear music, see the setting and so on (of whatever I'm alluding to) when I write.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I like to write about religion, sociological theory, combat PTSD, and things inspired by the Earl of Rochester's view of human nature.

 

[ishtat]

I like to write about .... things inspired by the Earl of Rochester's view of human nature.

Before his conversion one presumes?

 

[butters]

Our new master bath shower is gigantic and has two seats in it. I see lots of shower sex in my future. I'm generally not a big fan of it when space is very limited, but there's all kinds of possibilities with those seats in there.

Oh I love to write about music, mainly jazz but all music. One thing I love to do when I write is try to make all the sense references strong enough so that the reader can hear music, see the setting and so on (of whatever I'm alluding to) when I write.

cleanliness is next to godliness, they say. so ... you getting all religious, or just crystal balling us?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

cleanliness is next to godliness, they say. so ... you getting all religious, or just crystal balling us?

Only in the Irish dictionary .......

 

[Angeline]

cleanliness is next to godliness, they say. so ... you getting all religious, or just crystal balling us?

I saw God in the shower just last night.

Crystal balling, huh? Sounds interesting.

 

[butters]

I saw God in the shower just last night.

Crystal balling, huh? Sounds interesting.

was he circumcised, or was the beard too long to tell?

 

[CharleyH]

I'm just curious about this, but what do you guys like to write about when it comes to poetry? Can you guys please be specific like "emotions", "scenery","life", etc. Is there an specific type of poetry that you guys like the most (to write about of course)?

For example, i like to write about emotions because i can find most of the time a way to relate myself to them. My favorite emotions to write about are "solitude","hate", "strength" and "passion".

Also is there any specific reason of why you guys usually write about it?

I like a wide range of poetry, but mostly I enjoy poetry that has a good degree of current popular culture or poetry embalmed in semiotics. I don't have a favoured emotion, just favoured symbols and metaphors.

 

[Angeline]

was he circumcised, or was the beard too long to tell?

Of course he is. Everyone knows he's really a Jew, like me.

 

[CharleyH]

Of course he is. Everyone knows he's really a Jew, like me.

Interested... and it may sound naive and dumb, but ... is there a specific Jewish form of poetry beyond the parable?