A poem

good thinking
but then, you should read the modern poet anthology

Gearld's Panda dancing,
thorin's melodica playing.
Two intelligent minds,
far from agreeing.
If Optimus returned,
would it change things?
Or is it a never ending struggle,
to get the last word in?

sorry, you two just entertain me alot with your posts...

if practice makes perfect
and nobody's perfect
so why practice

as a new comer i found that gerald and thorin disagreement is quite amusing

We only disagree because he's wrong so much of the time.

I've read quite a bit of modern poetry, and quite a bit of it is very good. My problem with amateur poets is that they assume all you need to make a poem is vague language and line breaks (and maybe a lot of end rhyme). No one knows what 'meter' is, or why one would ever want to use a 'concrete image,' or the difference between a liquid sound and a glottal stop. They just dash out their thoughts in 'poetic' language and expect it to be just as good as Cairns or Cummings or Eliot.

of course you only think that because you think you are right. idiot.

Actually it is the meter which prevents me from from writing poetry. I don't really have any sense of rhythm. The reasons you state are exactly why I usually ignore posts from the poem section.

I keep reading them because I'm a masochist.

Well I can't write really, and am about as creative as Nick Mason, so get really impressed when I see anyone write anything creative. Everything I write sounds like baa baa black sheep, not that there's anything wrong with it.

well i suppose Cairns or Cummings or Elliot started as amateurs and one day they time came and then they considered as "experts"

so thorin is a he
to me his id and comments sounds feminime
(no offense thorin)

There's nothing wrong with being amateur. There is something wrong with writing something the form of which you don't understand.

i suppose the problem is on you then

How's that?