11-16-2013, 03:47 PM
i'm here sock puppet :J:
i like humour and i'm a toilet dweller, i have no other mitigating circumstances
you know you've read a good it sort of makes you think a little bit before reading again and then again
most poets think they know what poetry is and think they write good poetry but it's seldom the case.
but more of the poetic discourse. i live in the philippines now but when i was in the uk (the days before wine bars and pub restaurants) if you spoke of poetry in anything but a joke or parody, someone would
a] steal your beer
b] piss in your beer
c] take a dump in your beer
or outright leave the pub with your beer.
and to be honest, i'd sooner spend a session in a pub with non poetry discoursing people than be at some pseudo academical gathering where would be poets are blowing each other with who they now and what they know. here and other forums, fine (even if this starting post seems like the magna fucking carta with the American bill of rights tagged on to the end) you'll get more gravy if you take some of the veg off and add more meat :J but i have to honestly say, i've never spoken about poetry for more than 5 mins outside the internet except with addy and then we're ridiculing everyone elses poetry. (just kidding)....or am i 
one of the marks of a truly good poem for me is if i can appreciate it or not. i don't have to like it, i'm not keen on bmw's but there's no doubt they're well made. same with art. i don't always like what i appreciate. many people think, i hate it, it's shite...and that's often a truism but there's another truism and it's this. we don't all have good taste. whistlers mother god bless her, classed as one of the best paintings whistler ever did, i hate to see his other works
and then you have Picasso. i seriously dislike most of his works but see him as a painting genius.
i like humour and i'm a toilet dweller, i have no other mitigating circumstances
you know you've read a good it sort of makes you think a little bit before reading again and then again
most poets think they know what poetry is and think they write good poetry but it's seldom the case.
but more of the poetic discourse. i live in the philippines now but when i was in the uk (the days before wine bars and pub restaurants) if you spoke of poetry in anything but a joke or parody, someone would
a] steal your beer
b] piss in your beer
c] take a dump in your beer
or outright leave the pub with your beer.
and to be honest, i'd sooner spend a session in a pub with non poetry discoursing people than be at some pseudo academical gathering where would be poets are blowing each other with who they now and what they know. here and other forums, fine (even if this starting post seems like the magna fucking carta with the American bill of rights tagged on to the end) you'll get more gravy if you take some of the veg off and add more meat :J
but i have to honestly say, i've never spoken about poetry for more than 5 mins outside the internet except with addy and then we're ridiculing everyone elses poetry. (just kidding)....or am i one of the marks of a truly good poem for me is if i can appreciate it or not. i don't have to like it, i'm not keen on bmw's but there's no doubt they're well made. same with art. i don't always like what i appreciate. many people think, i hate it, it's shite...and that's often a truism but there's another truism and it's this. we don't all have good taste. whistlers mother god bless her, classed as one of the best paintings whistler ever did, i hate to see his other works
and then you have Picasso. i seriously dislike most of his works but see him as a painting genius.