Parallel Poetry Communities

[flyguy69]

How arrogant of me to assume that there is but one community of poets here at Lit. Other communities occasionally appear fully formed, like Athena leaping from Zeus' forehead in full battle raiment, with authors, comments, and votes. Where do they come from? Where do they go? Why do they (often) laud tripe?

 

[Maria2394]

when I was about 10 years old, my mom wrote a poem for me about my cocker spaniel. It rhymed, but I distinctly remember her tellin g me that all poetry doesnt rhyme and some day she would explain that to me.

Your parallel communities idea reminds me of her saying that. When you refer to "tripe" I immedietly thought of all the rhyming poetry that appears on here and some of the authors use good imagery, have talented sentece structure and formats, but they rhyme every thing. Maybe their mom never told them? but not all of it is bad...

i dont know where "they" go, but a lot of the writers might not know about free form, or complex form poetry. One of the new authors that I read on my review day, has promise, but I dont know if thats all he can do, or if that is all he wants to do, and I dont want to insult him by telling him that, gee, I think you could do better, dont try so hard to rhyme what do you think?

also, I believe a lot of the other poets, the ones that dont hang out on this forum, write for their lovers, masters/mistresses, write about heartache etc and some of them I have offered FB too never responded, so I do not pursue it. They hang out on the general board...I am long winded I guess, but it seems like the "serious" people DO hang out here...

did I misunderstand your question?

 

[Tathagata]

when I was about 10 years old, my mom wrote a poem for me about my cocker spaniel. It rhymed, but I distinctly remember her tellin g me that all poetry doesnt rhyme and some day she would explain that to me.

Your parallel communities idea reminds me of her saying that. When you refer to "tripe" I immedietly thought of all the rhyming poetry that appears on here and some of the authors use good imagery, have talented sentece structure and formats, but they rhyme every thing. Maybe their mom never told them? but not all of it is bad...

i dont know where "they" go, but a lot of the writers might not know about free form, or complex form poetry. One of the new authors that I read on my review day, has promise, but I dont know if thats all he can do, or if that is all he wants to do, and I dont want to insult him by telling him that, gee, I think you could do better, dont try so hard to rhyme what do you think?

also, I believe a lot of the other poets, the ones that dont hang out on this forum, write for their lovers, masters/mistresses, write about heartache etc and some of them I have offered FB too never responded, so I do not pursue it. They hang out on the general board...I am long winded I guess, but it seems like the "serious" people DO hang out here...

did I misunderstand your question?

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ummmmm
there are people who " write poetry" and have a circle of friends come and vote/ comment on it which is fine by me
they know their audience

 

[Angeline]

I think there are some people who mostly post on other forums at Lit, primarily the General Board and the Author's Hangout who also write some poetry. I'm not sure there are cliques of them, so to speak, though. I know I feel most comfortable posting here on the Poetry Forum--it's really the reason I'm at Lit at all, though I go to the other places occasionally.

Then there are those who are "serious" about their poetry (in the sense that they're actively trying to publish outside here and/or would describe themself as "a poet") and those who write here and there for the reasons Maria said in her post (Hi Sis! ).

I'm not so sure about form/free verse as a dichotomy. I like to write both, and don't look at one as better or more anything than the other. It's all just poetry to me.

The only distinction that bugs me are the people who submit stuff full of errors (we all make them at times, but I at least try to reread and get it right before submitting), and then cop an attitude about "creativity" or "creating art in the moment" or some such. I don't get that. It's communication. That's what it's supposed to do--be understood. (Not that I get too exercised about it, I'm too laid back for that. But it does seem like an excuse for being too lazy to fix it to me...)

 

[Liar]

How arrogant of me to assume that there is but one community of poets here at Lit. Other communities occasionally appear fully formed, like Athena leaping from Zeus' forehead in full battle raiment, with authors, comments, and votes. Where do they come from? Where do they go? Why do they (often) laud tripe?

I think it's not as much a community of poets per se, as it is several different cliques/communities of friends, meeting and interact over at the General Board, or the Playground and other social threads. Some are writers, others are readers, or just dudes and dudettes in general. And the odd one writes poems too. And like good friends, they check out and give feedback to each other's stuff. Be it poetry, erotic stories, papier machie figures or bachelor party videos.

Generally, it's a good thing. Those are not all major poetry fans. But every now and then, someone gets lured over by their buddies' poems, and takes an interrest in the stuff the rest of us post too.

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