11-02-2005, 10:21 PM
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Pixie's Student
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: London, England
Posts: 60
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Originally Posted by Blood Princess
Poetry is the ability to capture thoughts, images, and emotions on a page. Rhyming or not, it is how well the "poem" depicts how the poet is feeling and can inspire others to give more in depth thought to just words on a page. I've always believed that the best poems are written from the heart.
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Whilst I hate to risk spoiling things by being a pernickety bastard... your definition of poetry could include just about anything. "I love you" would, by your definition, be a poem. In fact, "FUCK!!!" could also be a poem.
And some of the most famous poems in the world could, in fact, not be poems if what they portray is not what the poet actually intended them to be.
On a less picky note might I advocate that the best poems are not written from the heart - though this is probably true - but rather speak to our hearts. The poems I like the most are those that instantly make me feel like they've expressed something profound about my thoughts or feelings - even if I didn't write them. And the medium makes it feel succinct and well expressed - as if it were capturing the essence of that thought or feeling - unlike my writing style which, as you can tell, tends towards the long winded philosophical ramble!
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