[squarebarb]

As a writer, I am here to tell you this is junk.

This is what has killed poetry. Who reads this stuff anymore?

If you want poetry go to Thomas Merton or Christopher Smart (My Cat Jeoffry) or Rudyard Kipling; 19th century writers.

[ohioconservative]

"This self-deception, this dope dream, how long shall it last?"

"Dope dream"? Is the "poet" Puff Daddy?

[Blzbba]

"If you want poetry go to Thomas Merton or Christopher Smart (My Cat Jeoffry) or Rudyard Kipling; 19th century writers."




"If any question why we died,
Tell them, Because our fathers lied."
- Kipling - 1918 -


The great Kipling would be called an anti-patriotic, terrorist-supporting, Dixie-chick-loving, liberal, pacifist, anti-American traitor if he published that quote in this forum.

[AQGeiger]

Does anyone here miss the days in which poetry had actual rhyme and meter, and wasn't all of this "free verse" excrement?

Back then, it took actual talent to be a poet.