A Deeper Look At Poetry

      Hello, my feathered friends. Not that you're birds, but to me you're all angels. (N'awww, stop it, you!)

      So poetry, right? Let me clear something up. You're only a poet if you say you're a poet. I'm not a poet.

       Glad we cleared that up. It's just I get a lot of people calling me a poet simply because I write poetry, but that doesn't make me a poet. I write poetry as a side thing to my actual writing and more simply, I write poetry because it's goddamn easy to write!

       I write poetry because I can't be bothered to put effort into to something better. However, over the years I have developed a style and I do quite like my poems. Heh.

       As a rule of thumb, I hate poetry. I've gone as far as to make the claim that anyone who writes poetry is just like people who write song or music, but without any of the talent. Anyone can write poetry. It's also why I claim that professional poets are equal to amateur writers, which I maintain.

       'But if you hate poetry and think it's easy, how can you claim you have a style and like your own?' - I know, I know, but be aware I said 'rule of thumb'. That's because most poetry (with it being so easy, there is a lot of it) does suck. It's often up it's own arse and people think they're good for it. I am embarrassed, every time I write a poem, until I get used to the poem being one of my works (which is about two weeks.) That being said, there is some really good poetry. Just because poetry doesn't take loads of skill and often is crap - some people write really good things that happen to be poetry.

       I refer you to people like Edgar Allen Poe, or even in a more recent times Egghead (Or You Can't Live On Ideas Alone) by Bo Burnham. These people have written some awesome poems that I can't help but admire - but that's because of the brain behind them, not because poems are cool. Hit the right words and you have something cool, that is simply cool in itself as a work, and not because it conformed to certain rules that defines what it is.

       In that respect, it's like many other arts. There's a lot of them, but you only like some or only some are objectively good. The problem with poetry, however, is how exasperatingly easy it is for anyone to do 'right' that it becomes quite convoluted what it is to write poetry. And as a result I am not a poet, I have no interest in writing poems, I simply do it but there are random ideas that sound kind of cool. But I have no desire to be or be called a poet.

      Hope this clears up a few of my feelings on the matter.

      Ciao for now.