How do you feel about poetry?

[BurtWorm]

Do you read it regularly? Do you have positive feelings about it but never, or hardly ever, read it? Did school kill every positive feeling you ever had about it?

[ornotna]

1. Not regularly

but I do enjoy reading poetry.
Sometimes it can get a little abstruse for me.

[RUexperienced]

2. If it doesn't rhyme

its not poetry to me. IMHO

[BurtWorm]

3. Does that mean a translation of a poem written in another language

has to rhyme, or it isn't poetry?

[RUexperienced]

4. Point taken.

Let me just say I have more 'positive feelings' about poetry it it rhymes.

[ZenLefty]

5. Poetry scares me

Poetry scares me
They say it subtly,
Using big words so I
Gotta get my dictionary.

What does it mean?
I can't be seen,
Scratching my head
and straining out my speen.

I know I can read it,
Maybe I can feel it,
But what I don't know is
Whether or not I get it.

They think they're clever,
But can I be? Never.
They deftly use that pen
like they would use a lever.

Seriously,
Poetry's got no place for me.
I sure as shit can't write it.
Reading this, you're thinking 'obviously'.

:freak:

[BurtWorm]

6. That was beautiful!

:cry:

[thom1102]

7. I just don't get the appeal of poetry...

I know people think it is art and that it represents the beauty of the language etc. So I pass on poetry, if you like it fine, but I will stick to Terry Brooks, Molly Ivins, JRR Tolkien, and all the other fine authors that I read who give me an appreciation for the language.