Why poetries?

[blazeofglory]

I see more often than not the majority here choose to write poems.Is it just because it is easier to write poems, or that through poems we can express better.

Indeed I love reading poems, and writing too. Yet I wonder why the majority wallow in poems, in point of fact.

[lighthirsty]

Good poetry is art that sings the rhythm of the heart

[blazeofglory]

Good or bad, poetry is poetryl, and of course it transcends limits and rules and domains of grammar. Poetry needs grammar, and indeed it has to follow tracks of specific or poetic dictions, yet it can go beyond that.

Poetry if written following good grammar, and style becomes more soothing, and pleasing to ears, and yet without them if the poet can write or express something that lies within deep down that becomes a good poetry.

Indeed a good piece of poetry has more to do with the unconscious, and of course it is the unconscious that births a good piece of art.

Indeed our conscious expressions are too much confined, tabooed and prunned and as a result all that gets expressed at this level becomes artificial and lies too.

All we are much more aware of the fact that things that well up at the unconscious are filtered, and screened.

Therefore poetry is all that stuff that does things the rest of other forms of art.

[asilef73]

well i write really crappy poems just because i find them to be cathartic and i'm a person of few words.

[AwayAloneAlast]

I've always been a bigger fan of poetry than of prose. One finds, in good poetry, the depth of prose tracts encapsulated into typically smaller chunks, and language more beautiful than even the best prose writers.

[believin]

I see more often than not the majority here choose to write poems.Is it just because it is easier to write poems, or that through poems we can express better.

Indeed I love reading poems, and writing too. Yet I wonder why the majority wallow in poems, in point of fact.

I actually write poetry because it is harder than prose. In writing poetry, I have to think more carefully about what I mean, choosing words more critically than I do in "regular" speech or writing. I don't think it is that poetry expresses any deeper part of me — that is reserved for correspondence with people close to me, whether in verse or prose ;) — because my prose is often as expressive of my "inner self" as my poetry is, and even more so. But with poetry, there is a rigour demanded because of the economy of words that a poem expects, in contrast with a prose piece. That is true regardless of whether the poem is some soul-searching piece, or a "mere" observation of some thing/idea/event or another.

[blazeofglory]

Of course there is the economy of words and condensation of structure, fine-tuning, sophistication and of course subtlety of ideas. Poetry is a seeking of order, and indeed organization of human perceptions. It is a beauty man creates in the course of living that comes out of the refinements of human perceptions, acuties and certainly sensitivites.

Nature, we can not fathom the depth of it as a matter of fact, appears totally chaotic and disorderly. Indeed there must be order or kind of system in nature, and indeed poetry is seeking for it timelessly.

What we call God, supreme consciousness is the latent or hidden secret of nature. That secreted or veiled part of nature is what is manifest in poetry.

Notwithstanding the fact that it is confined within bounds of many rules and of course styles poetry is more natural and indeed holds a longer history than a work of prose.

[JBI]

Prose is boring. Poetry is easy to write, the reason because common belief is that every poem is a work of poetry, good poetry however, is very difficult, perhaps more difficult than prose. I know that if I posted every poem I had scribbled I would be booed off of the board; there is as much hit and as much miss when it comes to writing poetry. Prose however, can be revised and saved in a very different way.

[aabbcc]

Because it is shorter, and it requires lesser attention span to formulate your feelings into an average poem than into an average essay or shorter form of prose. Note that sometimes you are also helped by the language itself, particularly if you write poetry that rhymes (since the poetry in meter does require quite a bit of attention span :p); it is quick, relatively easy, anything can pass for a poem - from Shakespearean sonnets to free-stylish a couple of lines, and it is suitable to express feelings (whilst essays are more about thoughts, prose more about story). It is also harder to 'judge' poetry because pretty much anything can fall under its boundaries, than to judge essays or prose where there are still some 'rules' of good writing.

Now, writing good poetry is sometimes a bit of different story, but nevertheless, I think the above is why people generally choose to express themselves through poetry.

I am personally more of a music/theatre person, so if I don't express myself through music, I am most likely going to think "on the scene" and have a play-ish work in my mind. Essays are however my favourites, I prefer leave writing for my thoughts, and express my feelings through music.

[blazeofglory]

Poetry goes on and on eternally. I beleive as long as man can think poetry will go on and the end of poetry is likened to the end of imagination. Poetry is the medium, whether it it through a poetic or rhythimic or rhymed forms is something man is trying to express himslef through eternally.

It is trying to mimic the rhyth we see in the fountains, in the songs of birds, in the blowing of the wind.

Poetry is everywhere, indeed manifestation of something hidden, or the hiddeen order in chaotioc nature.

[JBI]

I think it's really difficult to write a good poem because of the structure poetry imposes, even free verse. The sonnet is probably the most structured form in all of literature.
If you think the sonnet is hard, try writing an Englyn in English.

[chasestalling]

Permit me to debunk. Poetry prose what difference does it make? There are well written ones and then the rest. Why bother with the rest, unless one is a teacher whose duty it is to address the rest.