Poetry?

[Aftermath]

hey. I dono how it is for everyone else, but poetry is easy for me to create..
Im not the greatist poetry maker in the world, but i can come up with poems on the spot and my teachers seam to find this great.
i cant really tell the difference between good poetry and bad poetry, it all seams the same to me.
I made this poem called pepsi and it went on for 3 pages, and i could have easily wrote 1000 pages on it..
it went on how pepsi ruined my life and how a voodoo spell was put on me and all these strange adventrues i went on as i drank pepsi and it was all written in iambic pentanimeter with rhymes and all..
is it just me or is poetry really easy to write?

 

[*Cosmic Mist*]

i find it easy to write peotry if i have sdequate inspiration - it's easy to find the rhymes, and the rest flows together pretty well... having said that, my best work is edited 1000 times befor eit's finished, and even then i'll change it years later.
Good poetry is not hard to write - soulful poetry is... it depends on what you want your poetry to say to those who read it.

 

[Aftermath]

what determins what is publishable poetry and non publishable poetry.
i could easily write a thousand page book of serious poetry, but would anyone like it?
rhyme schemes, metaphors, personification, and many more literary terms are in my poetry.. i just dont think anyone could be botthered with it..

 

[SelectionIll]

an editor determines what is publishable poetry.
writing truly good poetry has nothing to do with using the same rhyme scheme as shakespeare, or filling up the same blue breast pocket note-books as kerouac. poetry is the tragic made beautiful, just like all art. it's completing something in an incomplete world, and it's very important, so don't take it lightly, or you'll come off pretentious.
seemore

 

[E-girl]

look at me... my poetry almost never rhymes.

 

[*Cosmic Mist*]

Aftermath: My point was exactly that - the rhyme schemes, metaphores, alliteration and etc are useful, but should never be the focus of a poem. It should be (as seemore said) tragic and beautiful. No one wants to read a pageful of meaningless drivel - they want to relate to it, they want something to aspire to, or something that disgusts them - somehting that triggers some sort of emotional response.
That is what makes good poetry publishable - its ability to touch someone. Of course, a good rhyme scheme will make it easier to read, and metaphors will reinforce the message you're trying to send.
The most important part of my poetry? EMOTION