'Is it supposed to be stupid?'-Zim
05/26/2004 04:31 a.m.
How can people mock poetry? It's like mocking the ocean. Poetry is an art form. To be any good at it you have to pour your passion, in raw form, into words and phrases. How can anyone mock such a display of human joy or suffering? I can see mocking the words used, but it is impossible for anyone to understand the underlying emotions that went into the poem. The words are just what carry a small fraction of that emotion to the reader. They have no bearing on the reason the poem was written.

Writing poetry, and then letting others read it is also something that has to be admired. To write something out of your emotions and then to keep it to yourself seems destructive to me. Those emotions just sit and fester like a wound. They need air and the light of other eyes to shine upon them to do any good. I don't know about any of the other poets on Pathetic but having others read my poetry is very therapeutic. It's like I have set out a huge plate of my emotions that I can't handle by myself and each person who comes along and reads takes a bit of that burden away with them. I guess I just don't understand how anyone with a shard of poetic talent can stand to let their poetry go unseen.
I am currently Clueless
I am listening to The Doom Song