(11-17-2013, 06:53 AM)Leanne Wrote: Nobody has it completely right, but I find this to be headed in the right direction. And yes, challenge everything. If your ideas about poetry don't change constantly, you're probably not doing it right.if you think about it, isn't this how people become real poets, by starting off as gingerbread men; reading a writing a lot of poetry and in the process transforming into muffin men. we start off thinking it's all rhyme and shirt sleeves then move on to trouser legs of free or blank verse. from there it's forms such as sonnets etc. and all the time we're changing the things we learn to suit what our needs are. we create or try to, new forms and new concepts. stagnation in any creative form is the Antichrist. it's why people teach others to LEARN THE RULES first in order to fuck them up at a later date.
back to discoursing poetry and pubs. the paddy's in my local wouldn't only steal your beer they 'd outright tell you fuck off with your nancy ideas. of course they'd then sing a poetical song from their homeland but in pubs, poetry marks you as a dick head.
what i'm also realizing is this, these few threads so far all seem to count for nothing but warm air