Poll: Quick!Make a Poem!
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Gonna write some sonnets up in this *****, got some iambic pentameter for y'all
A virus or, perhaps the wrath of God
Descended on Earth like a raging tide
The illness by which the spirit is shod
But the shell of a body stays behind
It spares no lives, no discrimination
Cultures collapse ahead of its advance
Raging through cities, raging through nations
Those caught before it stand hardly a chance
Survivors banding together to try,
To battle the spawn of Hell-borne rebirth,
Once mighty man has now withered and died
These undead monsters roam over the earth.
From what may now our salvation be wrought,
A twelve-gauge messiah with scatt'ring shot.
Will probably be back to post more as I think of them.
A virus or, perhaps the wrath of God
Descended on Earth like a raging tide
The illness by which the spirit is shod
But the shell of a body stays behind
It spares no lives, no discrimination
Cultures collapse ahead of its advance
Raging through cities, raging through nations
Those caught before it stand hardly a chance
Survivors banding together to try,
To battle the spawn of Hell-borne rebirth,
Once mighty man has now withered and died
These undead monsters roam over the earth.
From what may now our salvation be wrought,
A twelve-gauge messiah with scatt'ring shot.
Will probably be back to post more as I think of them.
That made me chuckle.MrOramri said:
Though, as my creative writing professor would tell some members of the class, and I'm not joking about what he said:
I'll be nicer. Make use of commas and find a way so the lines aren't fragments.
Example:
"Dependant clause",
"Independant clause".
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Sorry, I'm feeling like being a stickler tonight.
Japanese poem.Paksenarrion said:
Five, seven, five syllables
is the pattern... dawg.
Oddly it does seem
like haikus are the simplest.
You're all doing them.
A Haiku is nice.nukethetuna said:
I did rhyme on a dime here,
With a mug of beer.
Edit:
I did edit it.
I'm not very eloquent,
When I am tired.
I was once asked
to write a poem in a escapist thread
little did i know
the op was drunk and half-dead
finals were looming
the time was all spent
with nothing to turn in
the teacher would be bent
so the op used their head
and posted a popular thread
found one that made them content
turned it in and to sleep they went.
to write a poem in a escapist thread
little did i know
the op was drunk and half-dead
finals were looming
the time was all spent
with nothing to turn in
the teacher would be bent
so the op used their head
and posted a popular thread
found one that made them content
turned it in and to sleep they went.
There once was a man named Lou
Who had developed a taste for poo
He got hepatitis and raging colitus
Then died after eating poo stew
Who had developed a taste for poo
He got hepatitis and raging colitus
Then died after eating poo stew
You have sentences without capitalization.Silverfox99 said:
You have lines without punctuation.
Poetry is like any other written word.
It must follow the rules of writing, though correcting you makes me sound like nerd.
Human ghosts in silicate shells,
circuitry lines on my face and around my mouth,
heat and light with a slight ozone scent.
These shells, like bullets, fit perfectly
I wear them on my feet, on my hands and over my eyes,
They sound dry and accurate bouncing off surfaces -
I send them around as scouts.
I use them as currency.
They are not part of me.
When I sleep, they all rattle at once and I get static.
I've been trying to program my words into phrases
they started flashing a message on every screen,
On every wall
Cold, green lasers all over my skin.
circuitry lines on my face and around my mouth,
heat and light with a slight ozone scent.
These shells, like bullets, fit perfectly
I wear them on my feet, on my hands and over my eyes,
They sound dry and accurate bouncing off surfaces -
I send them around as scouts.
I use them as currency.
They are not part of me.
When I sleep, they all rattle at once and I get static.
I've been trying to program my words into phrases
they started flashing a message on every screen,
On every wall
Cold, green lasers all over my skin.
Relax it was just a fun poem written as a joke.Sonic Doctor said:
BTW, Poetry and literature does not have to follow the rules of writing. There are novels with out a single period in them or any punctuation. If there is a rule of writing I can point out in literature where that rule has been broken. It helps to create an effect for the overall work. In this case I was being lazy, but was that on purpose?
Yeah stuff like that does get published, but not often, and usually only by established writers because people in the field seem to give leeway to established writers.Silverfox99 said:
My advice:
Don't take any creative writing classes in college and use that mentality with your writing. Every professor I've had in the field (they are published of course because one can't be a full professor without publishing) would disagree with you. If I had written a poem like yours for one of those classes, I would have had red ink all over it with additions of commas, periods, and capitalization of the beginnings of each line.
Edit: I was just playfully joking about the errors your poem, I know this thread isn't serious. Though my advice in this post is serious.
I just won a match in Starcraft 2
He was a Protoss and him I did slew
Don't mess with the best
Terran is above all the rest
And thats my horrible poem.
He was a Protoss and him I did slew
Don't mess with the best
Terran is above all the rest
And thats my horrible poem.