Does anyone around write poems simply for pleasure or expression?

I've discovered what a relieving thing it can be when one puts his troubles into rhymed literature. I usually keep them for myself, though. Anyone else does/has done the same? Just wondering.

I was thinking about it, but I don't think I was very good at it. I have no idea.
I do remember Kazuki doing something like that on Deviant Art, however.
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No. No offense, but it sounds a bit "too emo" to me. These days it's a fad to either be an emo, or hate emos.

Thus if you can't find the golden middle road, people will hate your poetry "cause it's fad poetry".
I tried but it was too...eh, undescribable x_X

I prefer visual arts and music over poetry when i'm like that. So drawing, since i can't compose music; i wish i could..

feel teh pain
when i blow your brain
with teh gun o' mine
called m79

I like writing poems and i do write them for expression it kinda lets my feelings out, so there not so bottled up inside, and Kazuki is really damn good at it.

I used to right poems, then I realized that if I kept writing poems I would never pull out of my depression... so I vowed to never write another poem ever again.

I am with meandor, I draw when ever I am depressed.

Read my profile.

Oh i read your profile, but i'm too stupid to get the point.

the only time i wanted to write something poetic was when i was in the car over thanksgiving break with my ex-gf, and their was this insane sunset going on, taking up the entire sky. it was every different color ive ever seen in a sunset combined into one sunset.... it was crazy

I like to write songs...that is about as close as I am getting to writing poetry.

I write poetry every now and then, and have been doing so for several years. Here's my site

The Eternal Pit

I haven't updated very much recently, but there's quite a bit there. Just click on "The Scrolls". Feedback's always nice too.

I used to write poems, yes. I still do sometimes, but it's not real emo. My past poems, which are on DeviantArt, are pretty emotional, but I didn't cry or show all that much emotion while writing them. I was more focused on finding words that rhyme. That's why I'm into poetry and writing it, because it amuses me to find the right words. But it shows deep emotion at times, and I love it when poems make you think real hard.

lol kaz is emo

lets write haikus!!!(sp)

I wrote lyircs a few times in middle school...oh god do I regret it. I found some old notebook or other last weekend, with a few lyrics written in it. Absolutely horrible. This happens to me with all writing: if I ever return to it, I can't help but think "what was I thinking?!" It just seems that if I ever try to express real thoughts through writing, the words distort things and make it seem like I'm saying something I never wanted to say. Probably "I suck at writing."
Although I can understand how satisfying it would be to write a really good poem, I must say I never really enjoyed reading poetry either. Or even understanding it. Too many metaphors and light-dark imagery. I can't take it!

Evil
From the depths I spy
As I draw near a cold wind blows by

I am your fears taking form
I cannot be stopped for I wake with the moon and ride with the storm

Now is the time for hell on earth
From the ground my demons spring forth

My army of darkness and my evil reign
To this world I bring torment and pain

Every man and woman will fear my name
What cannot be seen will never be tame


James Graham Megow

Copyright ©2004 James Graham Megow

Fooled
Why must I sit back and stare
Watching you laugh and fiddle with your hair

He has stolen you from me
Can't you reazile you and me were meant to be

You and him walking hand-in-hand
I must do what I have planned

I laugh as I see his blood..
I told them I would

In hell, is where we shall stay
Now no one can take you away

To escape my own hell I was not as clever
No love, only torment and pain in hell forever

James Graham Megow

Copyright ©2004 James Graham Megow

Sand
How can you be so near yet so far
Loving you is like catching a falling star

By you forever I stand
As you slip past me like grains of sand

As time goes on
I still can't call you my own

I cannot bear to leave your side
Yet my love I still hide

O God why must I have this curse
As my love grows, my fears get worse

To be near you is both pleasure and pain
And to loose you is both a great loss and great gain

James Graham Megow

Copyright ©2004 James Graham Megow



Posted those on poetry.com.. Not that long but then again I'm a blunt person.. of course that site published "Evil" and "Sand" in a few books and a book over in England wanted to put "Sand" in so I let them... so basiclly I am in 3 or 4 poetry books woo...

I put my "Lucifers Nightmare" poem on poetry.com, and they asked me to go to finals, but then I ran out of money to get to the competition...Bah..Anyways, I liked "Evil" and "Fooled", nice.

But those poetry books are a scam everyones poems get in ;)
Meh sounds a bit emo to me lol ;)I prefer drawing as well

/me agrees with the milkyman lets write haiku!

Haikus arent emo.... right?

Hell no...haikus rock the house.

The only time I write poems is when it is required by the school curriculum to do so.

You're the cream in my coffee,
You're the salt in my stew,
You're the starch in my collar,
You're the stink in my poo.

Nat King Cole is crying in his grave you evil [IMAGE]

quote:Originally posted by HitmanYou're the cream in my coffee,
You're the salt in my stew,
You're the starch in my collar,
You're the stink in my poo.


that was great!

i washed grandma with a shovel
she was naked and blue..
she smelled like a ham and had no man
i threw her in the lava..

she died i cried then she revived..

i named her linda she lived in my boot...
she shrunk from the decompression field at the baseball feild..
thats my grandmother she is swell.. now she lives in a well..
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Thank you thank you im camping carl hugs and kisses

Happy is the man and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own,
He who, secure within, can say,
"f*ck it, i'll sell my mmorpg characters on ebay."

-John Dryden

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I do poems, yes, See my counterstrike one, lol. Yes I manages to put the beauty of words into CS.

Poems can be very good. However, generally people take the easy route out and write continually depressed literature. Yes, black poetry can be good, but most of the time it's just [IMAGE] written by teens who want to be different, alternative and deep (while still, of course, being cool) but just end up being stereotypical, annoying, and sickening. Case in point:

Painted Eyes

the smell of Cold.
a doll sprawled on the fresh grass,
broken arms open to the Falling heavens.
mouth open wide Screaming.
Painted Eyes, a pretty shade of blue,
blankly stare at grey.
no sun for this forgotten memory, this echo of love,
this Outcast amongst the green.
peeling cheeks reveal the Heartless Plastic beneath.

Me, Grade 9. Aren't we happy now...and then the crowning irony is that though it's a depressing poem about [i think] outcasts amongst society being rejected, I'm not an outcast, depressed or remotly rejected.

I get A+ on my poetry all the time, and it is supposed to be good. I don't thinks so. Anyway, haiku can be emo, but mostly fun. Limericks on the other hand, are never really emo.

I hate poems. A lot.

You hate THIS too!

roses are red,
violets are blue,
you stink like poo!

Yay