inversions in poetry

[Caleb Murdock]

stop it with your poetry, this is a discussion not a showcase. and i'm allowed to think those lines are gibberish, as you put them up they stood, i'm not physic. use someone elses poetry. have a look through the site and post a few inverted lines. better yet post so inverted lines from a well known poet.

i'm sorry sorry sorry but i just see most of the argument for inversion as out and out bullshit. i see people calling it a poetic device, i see people saying think "if the consensus of people say inversion is wrong ...sis it really wrong" well yes that what everyone except those who use it agree on. they agree that it's shite poetry. and in all honest i'd never use one my my poems to prove a point about poetry apart from showing it as an example of shite poetry. you put a piece of poetry of yours up calab and your putting it up for discussion. it would not bode too well. i've read a few of yours and i can't say i'd use them as examples of good poetry [you brought it up, i'm just replying to you]

if you invert the odds are your poetry will not be of a good quality. inversion is not a poetic device it is an aberration for which poets who use it should be flayed. you will not brain wash me abu

So Billy, tell me, are you really in charge of this place? This is your forum? Is that really possible?

Half the time your rants make you sound like you're drunk.

I use examples from my own poetry because I'm familiar with my poetry. I spent time struggling with whether I should leave that inversion in my poem, so I was ready to give it as an example. And by the way, "My Heat" is a good poem -- I'm sorry you can't recognize that.

Also, a poetry forum like this IS a showcase for people's poems. I mean, a forum like this is where people come to show other people what they are working on.

The moderators on this forum are chronically hostile and patronizing. I'm getting really tired of it. You pretty much have to be a masochist to participate here.

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I wrote my last post 35 minutes ago and I haven't been banned yet. I INSIST ON BEING BANNED -- WHAT'S TAKING YOU SO LONG? AND THIS TIME I WANT TO BE BANNED FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE!