Not sure if there is a thread about poetry but I will write about it anyway if there isn’t a thread about poetry. I’d like to know if you write poetry yourself and I am pretty sure there are some authors that do write poems when they’re not writing stories haha.
What got you into poetry?
How old were you when you started writing poetry?
Favourite poem you have written so far?
Would you ever publish your poems?
Who is your favourite poet?
How did I get into poetry? Well when I was 14-15 years old, I was inspired by bands such as Parkway Drive, Avenged Sevenfold and other bands I used to listen to when I was younger. I really enjoyed reading other people’s poems when I was in school (talking about when I was studying GCSEs). Somehow, I had writer’s block which stopped me from writing poems that I ran out of ideas. My favourite poems I have written so far has to be Thorn Of Rage and Beautiful Blasphemy
If you haven’t seen my poetry blog, I have posted a link to the Forum under a different thread so here it is:
I made up songs to everything when I was a kid, I never wrote them down so they’re lost now except for a few little rhymes my parents will reminisce on every once in awhile when they look at me and remember I’m a grown up. I started writing proper in elementary whenever I was asked to and it took me a sec to figure out you can do the things you enjoy in school outside of school. My language arts teachers were always really cool and in 7th/8th grade the teacher cut out hundreds of words from magazines and we all took a handful and made poems. That’s when I found the style I like, using as few words as possible and strategically arranging them to paint a little picture.
Oh man, I can relate to that. I remember when me and my cousins were little we used to add chicken in most songs like whenever we sing Lady Gaga’s Pokerface the lyrics go like this:
I laid an egg, I laid an egg
And it cracked
Then a chick came out of it.
I’m not really sure, I think I just found something on the internet one day and liked it so I searched for more. I had a bit of a break from it for some time and a friend of mine gave me poetry book so I got back into it.
Around 9 or 10 years. I started writing songs but one time I couldn’t find a melody to the lyrics and declared it a poem
I don’t have a favourite one, I normally like the one I’m writing at that moment the most, but once I finish it or a week later, I dislike it
Yes, some of them but not all of them because some are too personal
I don’t have a favourite because I normally don’t care who wrote it. I often don’t even look at who wrote something.
I loveee poetry, and I especially love slam poems, I think they’re soo cool
Myself, I don’t really write poems, only sometimes and I don’t think I’m any good but sometimes it is fun to let my feelings out in a poem.
What do the rest of you think about poetry? And have you written it before?
I love reading poetry but I never used to write them, only stories.
That was until I joined one of the writing competition on here and I decided to try writing one for the first time. I was happy about it.
