What good is poem?

[PrinceMyshkin]

Poem won’t feed you
nor poem will keep you company
when you’re starving for some.

Poem won’t look into your eyes
with curiosity or tenderness,
nor poem will cuddle you.

Then what good is poem?
I ask you: what good is poem?

I ask you again: what good is poem?

What good is poem?

[ampoule]

Silly Prince, one of the most well-fed here. ;)

I love the ending and I'm sure it can be compared to someone else, but for me it is new because you wrote it for the first time. I am thankful I have so much company.

[Umbilical]

I'm sure this is a question,
or a statement you answer with your question (the 'good' poem and your 'good' insecurity as to its 'goodness').

Well, I will answer because I'm egotistical and think that every question is somehow MY question of life and death (and every day feels like that SOMEWHAT).

A good poem is one you keep between your legs...
You don't let her/'it' run away,
because it belongs in the house you've built below yours.

What I mean is --
if you write the good poem,
it couldn't run-away/run-on,
because it's a placid, good girl... And with ownership of itself you might NEVER AGAIN be able to claim its goodness for your own.
Possession is a good poem
as it shackling her to the fridge or the stove or the sink.

It's not a crime if it's just a stupid poem.

[Umbilical]

What good is poem,
I read as what is a good poem.

Same thing maybe.
Or maybe it's meant to be...

[CdnReader]

My poem
6 foot 1, blonde, sparkly eyes
good job, valid passport
make me laugh sometime
sometime make me cry
tickle my imagination
keep my toes warm at night

You shopping at wrong poem store

[blazeofglory]

I can not really figure out what you really[LIST]

In fact poetry is a beauty, a piece of beauty. If you can agree on this statement you can find something rare in poetry.

I do know why you got nothing or it is just sarcastically said I find everything in poetry. I keep company with poetry.

I am a little bit introvert and I often communicate with poetry. It is a window through which I see everything.

[PrinceMyshkin]

I can not really figure out what you really[LIST]

In fact poetry is a beauty, a piece of beauty. If you can agree on this statement you can find something rare in poetry.

I do know why you got nothing or it is just sarcastically said I find everything in poetry. I keep company with poetry.

I am a little bit introvert and I often communicate with poetry. It is a window through which I see everything.

Poem is written in voice of persona,
Slavic language which does not use articles
and is given to melodrama!

[PrinceMyshkin]

What good is poem,
I read as what is a good poem.

Same thing maybe.
Or maybe it's meant to be...

No, no, meaning is
good poem/bad poem
is no different
when you want lover!

You know American writer name of Gertrude Stein? I borrow from her: "Poem is poem is poem is not bread, slivovitz or pretty woman or man."

[AuntShecky]

My poem
6 foot 1, blonde, sparkly eyes
good job, valid passport
make me laugh sometime
sometime make me cry
tickle my imagination
keep my toes warm at night

You shopping at wrong poem store

Brilliant, cdnreader! (Glad to see you back, 'cause I didn't see you @ the LitNet for a while.)
I liked yours too, Prince, but why no articles or verb endings? Sound like croc in Pearls Before Swine (http://news.yahoo.com/comics/080518/cx_pearls_umedia/20081805).

[PrinceMyshkin]

I liked yours too, Prince, but why no articles or verb endings? Sound like croc in Pearls Before Swine (http://news.yahoo.com/comics/080518/cx_pearls_umedia/20081805).

Croc is funny character, no? I will try to write you poem with lots of articles & verb endings too. You have favourites?

You know of novel by Frenchman, Georges Perec, written entirely without letter "e"? Conjecture is Perec was Jew who lost entire family in Holocaust, and pronunciation of "e" and "them" in French sound very much alike so he wrote novel without them. I am planning sequel written entirely with letter "e" & nothing more. Will be big challenge, nyet?

[AuntShecky]

I had read in my Oxford literary dictionary about the novel without the "e," but I didn't know the poignant story behind it.
It's just wonderful that I'm learning so damn much on this
site. I mean that sincerely.