so like totally board

[michaelsbearre]

Yes, I mispelled bored.
Yes, I mispelled, misspelled.
I guess I'm just a bit board and lazy.
Too much time makin me hazy.

Oh snap now I sound like Kesha
And yet I'm sitting here doing nothing of promise
No rhythm
No flow
No metering

I guess this is the part where I should cringe and give up.
BUT I Guess this kind of crap is sometimes fun.
Research has been exhausting of late, as is life.
Sitting around, doing nothing.
Puttin a real strain on me.

Before long, I'll become my own worst enemy for fun.
JERK IS ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD!
He won't get me again, I vow this!
Why I still write?! I dunno.

I looked out side and saw it to be spring
At the park, all sorts of dogs, cats, birds and people humping.
Old people on walkers and birds in the sky.
Doing so passing me right on by.

I gazed unto the world in such a discomforting confusion
How do I get my gal to bend that way?
I can't let this go on any further. wwwwwwwwwwwwdfv n

[MystyrMystyry]

Yeah, well, um, like, it's like this - just because ya can doesn't mean ya have to, dig?

[MorpheusSandman]

When I first started writing poetry I wrote a lot of verse like this, just stuff tossed out there as a way of releasing creative energy without much regard for structure, meter, rhyme, form, etc. After a while you learn to write things like these for a bit of light fun and then get back to the process of actually working at poetry, and it is work, my friend; it has to be to ever be really good. But as it, this is a cute, fun piece.

[Lokasenna]

I like it - a kind of self-reflexive playfulness about it. It's a little disjointed, but then I think that goes in its favour, given what you are trying to say.

[MystyrMystyry]

Post, I meant :)

[jajdude]

When I first started writing poetry I wrote a lot of verse like this, just stuff tossed out there as a way of releasing creative energy without much regard for structure, meter, rhyme, form, etc. After a while you learn to write things like these for a bit of light fun and then get back to the process of actually working at poetry, and it is work, my friend; it has to be to ever be really good. But as it, this is a cute, fun piece.

I am not disagreeing at all, but some of us just do this for fun. I admire the talent though that appears on this site.

[michaelsbearre]

Yeah, well, um, like, it's like this - just because ya can doesn't mean ya have to, dig?

Eh, fun is fun. Gotta have fun once in awhile.

[michaelsbearre]

When I first started writing poetry I wrote a lot of verse like this, just stuff tossed out there as a way of releasing creative energy without much regard for structure, meter, rhyme, form, etc. After a while you learn to write things like these for a bit of light fun and then get back to the process of actually working at poetry, and it is work, my friend; it has to be to ever be really good. But as it, this is a cute, fun piece.

yes, I didn't even bother to try to try. Thanks for the feed back. I wish for your expertise in metering, form, structure ect in the future morphy. Up till now, I've only written free verse, so seeing this new challenge interests me.

[Delta40]

I enjoyed it for the sheer fun also.

[MystyrMystyry]

I was having fun - wouldn't've bothered commenting otherwise ;)

[Alexander III]

yes, I didn't even bother to try to try. Thanks for the feed back. I wish for your expertise in metering, form, structure ect in the future morphy. Up till now, I've only written free verse, so seeing this new challenge interests me.

Actually free verse in my experience is a lot harder than writing in a fixed meter. When writing in classical meter and rhyme the internal rhythm of the poem is already done for you. But when writing free verse, one must create the internal music, which is damn difficult and often tends to fail. In my experience one is ten fold more likely to write a decent poem in a classical structure with meter/rhyme than in free verse.

I mean even Pound and Eliot often failed, spectacular failures of genius, but still failures.

[michaelsbearre]

Actually free verse in my experience is a lot harder than writing in a fixed meter. When writing in classical meter and rhyme the internal rhythm of the poem is already done for you. But when writing free verse, one must create the internal music, which is damn difficult and often tends to fail. In my experience one is ten fold more likely to write a decent poem in a classical structure with meter/rhyme than in free verse.

I mean even Pound and Eliot often failed, spectacular failures of genius, but still failures.

Thank you kind sir! I usually write free verse because it's not so constrained or restricted. I'm struggling with metering and such cause it's new to me. HOWEVER, I want to learn all styles and methods of writing. I know haiku's and the more popular ones. Somehow metering and classical structure eluded my grasp lol.

[MorpheusSandman]

Actually free verse in my experience is a lot harder than writing in a fixed meter. Auden agreed with you, and he certainly wasn't a hack at either formal verse or free verse. To me, they just represent completely different challenges, both with their innate expressive possibilities. I find that a lot of poets tend to choose one or the other because of what seems easiest to them, which is usually free verse as they think "whoopee! No rules! No formal considerations!" But, as I'm fond of saying, the great early free-versers were as highly conscious of form as the classic formalists as they were having to reinvent it as they went along.

A poet/critic friend of mine is fond of saying that writing formal verse is harder than writing bad free verse, but writing good formal or free verse is equally hard.

[cogs]

you have a poem here, for which you've written a first draft. the contrast here is freedom vs. constraint.