I find structure of a poem too arbitrary?

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UppityNumber
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I find structure of a poem too arbitrary?

Post by UppityNumber »

What makes a poetry?
It is a stanza,
it is a phrase
it should rhyme,
it should not,
Esoteric it is,
and oh-so profound always,
I find it funny (oh very funny!) how
there are more people writing poems
than reading them...

let me tell you friends.
& I don't know if it's just me... but
I would read JRR Tolkien any day
than to read EE Cummings another day.
(though Robert Frost palate I may)

Post Note: I just hate poems... I'm no opponent of "prosy" style of literatures, but poems like those of EE Cummings or "kinetic poems", so to say, just pisses me off. I don't know... Maybe I have been reading it the wrong way--whatever obscure way it may be read. But really... why do they have to be so abstruse, so all-over-the-place and in-your-face? Makes my head ache. :-(

I suppose, my question is: Why do you all like poem so much? Or do you simply like writing them? Big difference, I assure you.
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Dustinthetoucan
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Post by Dustinthetoucan »

I personaly like limericks... Not the old fasion poetry but I dig it. B)
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