What is your goal as a poet? (time for everybody to chime in)

[AChild]

that is basically the question.

I want to publish.
I don't care if I sell one copy or a million I really don't.
I just want to know that my work with words is progressing and I want to have many books.
I want to never stop writing.
I want to learn to write different genres.

 

[The Mystery Valiant]

Made it there

To actually change the limits of poetry. I think it has gotten too old and too staid. Poetry is suffering rejection by the people who have to struggle everyday and haven't the time to be snotted time and again, as being poetically illiterate. Having people look down on them time and time again creates tension. I want to put more of a light on expanded definitions of the changing American vocabulary. I want to use the minor definitions associated with words. I want to skate the rote and timber of the straight laced poetry.

 

[Maria2394]

simple as this_

I want to be read, and possibly understood, By one person or one million, doesnt matter, but it validates my tiny existance....

 

[The_Fool]

simple as this_

I want to be read, and possibly understood, By one person or one million, doesnt matter, but it validates my tiny existance....

I'll vibrate your very existence......

Okay, on task:

If I were a poet, I would want to make words pound out a rhythm that rocks the reader's very soul. But I'm not. Cuz there is no poetry....

 

[Angeline]

My overall goal is to produce writing that meets my personal standards for good poetry. Occasionally I feel I achieve that.

My goal for the poems I write about music--especially jazz--is to capture the essence of the artist and the sound he or she produced well enough to convey it to the reader. I've had people tell me that when they read certain poems I've written they can hear the music. That makes me very happy, makes me feel like I did it right.

I like being published, and there are a few places where I'd love to see my poems in print, but my focus is much more on writing than on being published. These days, I don't feel as if there's enough time for me to both explore writing the way I want to (which involves reading and studying as well as writing) and spend time chasing down acceptances. Maybe at some point I'll feel more driven to see more of my poems in print, but that's where I am now.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I want to write a poem that someone comes to me a says "what you wrote changed my life"

If I can do that, I am more than happy.

Or get a "Damn but your poem got me hot!" and recieve a naughty propostion because of it.

That'd work too.

 

[Liar]

My goal when I started to write poetry was to explore the many weird and wondrous ways language could be used.

It still is. I write to try out perspectives, symbols and style, and to sharpen my tools as a communicating and communicating oriented person.

Do I want to get published? It would be cool, but it's not a goal. Do I want to get read by many? I cure wouldn't mind. But I'd rather write about what I've learned by writing poetry, and have people read that.

 

[Tzara]

What is your goal as a poet?

Well, first off, I don't consider myself a poet. But that is probably quibbling over semantics.

My main goal is to learn to read poetry better. Trying to write it helps me understand something about the mechanics and techniques that are used in poetry.

A second goal is that it is fun. I enjoy it. It's a kind of play.

 

[Willows_Tears]

I want to write a poem that makes Brad Pitt want to eat ice cream in bed with me. The breaking wind is optional, for surely, even Brad's stink.

Poetry is a form of communication. That is not ALL it is but humans are social creatures. There is no getting around it. Even anti-social behavior IS a social characteristic. Most people who pretend that social activity is phony are phonies themselves. So often anti-conformists are shouting LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME and if anyone happens to look their way, they shout WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING AT ASSHOLE when maybe the person was going to say, hey, do you know what time it is? or "here, I think you dropped this fiver"

I digress.

Before we are born we have a drive to interact. A big part of why I write, right now, is to communicate. But that changes all the time.

I like Angeline's goal of wanting to write poems that meet her own personal standards of what a good poem is. That is brilliant. I am stealing it right here.

I like the mental exercize, the challenge of finding the wording that works, the excitement of discovering things in my brain I had forgotten exsisted, things that only appear only when I am cracking the rocks of memory with a hammer and chisel of poetry.

 

[Guest]

I'd like to help you see what I do, a picure in words and to help us feel the same emotions but first I have to get you to want to.

 

[WickedEve]

Poetry. No goals. I just let it happen.

 

[champagne1982]

I haven't had much good news
and sometimes it's hard to share
what makes me smile
through the pain of explaining
what drives me on.

If I can find words to write
into a verse and set them here
to show you my injured heart
and state of mind; that makes me
go always on to share poetry.

 

[bluerains]

aaahhh...the, coup, coup d'etat, crime, debacle, destruction, disorder, foment, guerrilla activity, innovation, insubordination, insurgency, metamorphosis, mutiny, outbreak, overthrow, overturn, plot, radical change, rebellion, reformation, reformation, reversal, revolt, rising, row, shake-up, shift, strife, strike, subversion, transformation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnover, underground activity, unrest, upheaval, upheaval, uprising, uprising, uproar, upset, the thrill of it all...without any ownership...yes ...I like that...

 

[vampiredust]

I have no 'goals' as a 'poet'

I don't even consider myself as a 'poet'

All I want to do is just write. And never stop writing. If somebody wants to publish my words, fine. Likewise, if somebody wants to read my words, fine again.