I was just reading some poems on facebook written by some fellow students at UNCW, and I am so disappointed. They all seem so forced. Trying so hard to rhyme. Why don't you people just rap, since we all know that's what you really want to do anyway. Instead of trying to portray yourself as soft hearted, writing poems about love and feelings. You people don't know what poetry is. If you think poetry is all about love and feelings, stick to roses are red and mothergoose rhymes. The poems you are posting make you sound pathetic. Poetry is about the power of words. It is about manipulating words to capture a moment. I read a quote from an interview by this man who said poetry is not the words on paper, but the feeling you get from reading it. I think that is the most amazing, and accurate definition of poetry there is. It isn't about end rhyme and love and all those mediocre things people believe. It is about creating an emotion. Poetry is all around us people. When you are desperate, on your knees praying to God, tears racing down your face, it is poetry. When you are kissing the person you love, looking them in their eyes, pushing their hair behind their ears, it is poetry. When you are screaming at the top of your lungs, blood rising from your heart to your head, ready to throw a punch, it is poetry. If you want to write a good poem, take an emotion and recreate it through words. If someone else reads it and doesnt feel that same emotion, what is the point? The words shouldn't have to be forced. You don't force yourself to be happy or sad, or any other emotion. It is uncontrollable. That is how a poem should be written. The emotion directly to the page, with your hand being your heart, not your mouth.
MS
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