03-10-2016, 07:08 AM
This site attracts failures who are too young to know enough. And real poets who are fool enough to post for free what could maybe be published if not first posted on this site. Not me. I don't know the difference between Leanne or ellajam or the much missed justcloudy saying my poems are good and the publishing houses saying they're not. And I don't care. Because I only write what I want or need to write anyway. But I think here we should always give the benefit to the fools, because these days passion can feed more souls than the cowardly push-overs, don't you think? Just because they're inept doesn't mean they're hopeless. Any less than godly bores me and pisses me off and bores me again, because I've never been educated or to church, and I know more about poetry and God than Dante, Pascal, Augustine, Martin Luther and Milton back in the day. And most educated people know more about Pascal, Luther, Milton, Cervantes, Donne and Augustine than I do, because I have to think about sex and money. It doesn't mean the poems I argue about are ignorant-hateful-ought to be banned material.
Or to say it in sober terms: The problem with poetry today is that people with imagination are afraid of sounding weird, and people with no imagination have learned rationally how to get the best deal. Readers don't want to be fooled, and real poets don't care if you're a fool or not. That's all I think.
Or to say it in sober terms: The problem with poetry today is that people with imagination are afraid of sounding weird, and people with no imagination have learned rationally how to get the best deal. Readers don't want to be fooled, and real poets don't care if you're a fool or not. That's all I think.