are there things you dislike about poetry

[rowens]

You can cut your self short of a wider audience or understanding with some poems, unless you write other things that are powerful enough to draw people into your more obscure stuff. To read some of the poems I've posted on here, it can be seen that I have an unfortunate and elusive obsession with emphasizing 'smoke'. I can explain that that's because, next to all my pillhead friends, the one that does the most harm to me is the one that turns into a vindictive psychopath if they can't smoke hundreds of dollars worth of pot every week. But there's no reason anyone would know that or even care, if I didn't tell them in the poem, or in another poem, or something. When it comes to someone like Anne Sexton, I think she really needed the sense that even the mundane activities in her life had some value, and that someone cared, in order to fight the depression that eventually did kill her. And Sylvia Plath was a very skilled and dazzling poet sometimes, but she didn't even get to live as long as Anne Sexton.

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"Haha, good luck getting any concrete information about what I do in my life based on my poetry"

Maybe so, and I'm off subject just for a couple things right quick, but I was taking a look at the meet the staff photos, and based on yours I got the concrete information that you're a girl that never has to be lonely if she don't want to.
And to tie that in with what Billy asked about bad behaviour in another thread, I'm a notorious skirt-chaser. But needless to say, that rarely gets as far as my pessimistic heart trying to make a poem for the Poems For Fun category.