Things You Like and Dislike About Poems

What do you think of poems? What are your peeves? Do you love them? Can't rhyme to save your life?

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I love to write poems, they just flow out of me. I can't rhyme to save my life so I don't write rhyming poems, I free write. So much meaning can be put in a couple lines of poetry. The power of words is immense.

I don't really write poetry anymore, but I hated it when people got mad at me for not capitalizing.
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I like hidden meanings in poems, but not ones that are so hidden it's impossible to dig them out. I just don't have the patience for it.

poems that have forced rhymes...

People who rhyme like this:
There was a cat; he had a hat
There was a bat and a rat
And they were so fat.

It just drives me crazy. x]

I like excess of punctuation to emphasize phrases or words,
although it's gotten kind of mainstream now. :]

carcinogenic.:

People who rhyme like this:
There was a cat; he had a hat
There was a bat and a rat
And they were so fat.

It just drives me crazy. x]

In songs, when they have cheap tacky-ass rhymes like that I refuse to listen to it. It drives me insain. I could rhyme better than that in first-fucking-grade.

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I don't like it when a poem lacks good spelling and grammar evidently...
I saw this one poem which like, burned my eyes and it got ten comments or so saying: "dats so tru!!1111!!!"
And it was like, about cutting and black chipped nails and things that don't make any sense...
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Also, I dislike when poems have... that flat robotic tone, you know?

It annoys me when people write with common and basic words. Poetry is supposed to utilize language in every way possible so it bugs me when it's just "I cut myself. It bled a lot. It hurt. I felt sad."
I also hate it when people write in the title "COMMENT MEH PLZ!!!"

Yeah I don't like rhyming when it doesn't really fit with the poem. I also agree with Explicit Sins, I hate flat robotic tones.
I'm in a creative writing club and it's open to any middle schoolers. My middle school is from 5th to 8th grade. There's a couple of girls in it that only talk about cows and pigs. They write about them too. "There was a cow his name was bow he eats grass" and I'm being completly serious. But there are some that are kinda funny and morbid. The cows farm got burned down :(

There's another kid that makes no sense what so ever. It's kinda like he just puts a whole bunch of random words together. He talks like that too so it's impossible to know what he's saying. They're in 5th grade so I don't want to put them down much. There was another 5th grader in the class and she wrote really good.

There was a girl there that wrote really well. She was amazing, but she didn't come last time.

I used to write a lot of poetry in Junior High and even got some published, now I've slowed down on them and don't actually have the patience to finish them once I wrote the first draft.

I hate fixed form poetry. I don't mean sonnets and even Haiku is okay, but in English our teacher gives us a blue-print of a poem and then asks us to fill in some words. It's ridiculous to think that's creative writing.

But I don't agree with big, pompous words. They ruin the message. My favorite poems are simple and pretty short. The lines need to be simple and pure. There's no need for over the top metaphors when you have something important to say.

Oh and I just remembered, rhymes from Rhymezone.

^ yeah I do the same thing. Short, and to the point. There might be hidden meaning but it's easy understand. I hate blueprints. I love free and creative writing.

I don't like poems that have lots of rhyming in them.

None of my poems rhyme. And I find it quite annoying when there's to much rhyming.

likes: imagery, rhymes that flow, metaphors, beatiful language.

dislikes: too much angst, typical words like "blood" "heart" and "pain", rhymes that don't flow, too direct.

I love it when there is an ambigousness to the words and their meaning so you can take what you will. Repetition for a reason. Strange pairs of words. Paradoxes. Word play.

I dislike poems about being depressed or emo that have no flair to them whatsoever.

I was sick of feeling fat
Of looking like a rat

For example...

I'm picky with my poetry.

I really really hate generic topics for a poem. Such as being depressed and all that. I read like the first sentence and I can guess what the rest of the poem is going to be like. I also hate it when the words come out forced and it just looks like the poet/author just took out a thesaurus and used whatever words sounded intelligent.

I love poetry that flows and when you say it out loud it sounds good. I think that's the main problem with people who write poety, they think it sounds good in their head but when they read it out loud it sounds terrible and forced. I also love it when people use language techniques properly, instead of just inserting them here and there.

kafka.:

I hate fixed form poetry. I don't mean sonnets and even Haiku is okay, but in English our teacher gives us a blue-print of a poem and then asks us to fill in some words. It's ridiculous to think that's creative writing.

o.o;; We used to do that in sixth grade. I hated it, but yeah. That's not creative writing.

I like poems that ramble. I like poems that sound absolutely vicious and pretty. Like...sparkly bitchslaps, if that makes sense to someone besides me.

I like conversational poems. And story-poems. And honest poems. And when something's on a really cool, different topic. I found a couple by this dude in the poem section a while back. He had a really interesting one on tourists and it rhymed well.

I do not like : "S/he left me and now I'm so sad boohoo" poems. Last time I went to Mibba's poetry section, there were an awful lot of "I loved you, and I knew you and you were my sun and night stars, illuminating my world into springtime bliss until you LEFT ME FOR SOME SLUT" poems. Hey, you know why he left for you for some slut? The slut probably didn't write as obnoxiously.

The Doctor.:

I love it when there is an ambigousness to the words and their meaning so you can take what you will. Repetition for a reason. Strange pairs of words. Paradoxes. Word play..

Ohmanohmanohman I love word play!

Joany, I remember I had this one poem and I used the phrase "charred kohl", cuz before I wrote it, I was saying it aloud and I initally said "charcoal". Yeah, so when you commented, you wrote something about how it gives the image of "burnt out eyes". Which I never thought about. But I love cool stuff like that. I love awesome phrases. :weird

If y'all only knew how much I hate always seeing poems about heart-break and being depressed... I get that a lot of people use poetry to help 'em, but what happened to the good stuff in life too? ....or real stuff...

Mike Dirnt.:

The Doctor.:

I love it when there is an ambigousness to the words and their meaning so you can take what you will. Repetition for a reason. Strange pairs of words. Paradoxes. Word play..

Ohmanohmanohman I love word play!

Joany, I remember I had this one poem and I used the phrase "charred kohl", cuz before I wrote it, I was saying it aloud and I initally said "charcoal". Yeah, so when you commented, you wrote something about how it gives the image of "burnt out eyes". Which I never thought about. But I love cool stuff like that. I love awesome phrases. :weird

I remember that!

Ahhh memories...

The lack o critical response and when you do, people say to ignore you...

I love poems, and I was surprised at the quality there is on Mibba - much higher than that of the stories. I like that people have obviously put a lot of effort into them, and their use of subtle poetic techniques that just make you want to interpret more. Especially when they tell a story, when the imagery and flow makes you feel like you're right there.

What bugs me is when it sounds like the writer swallowed the thesaurus of "dark" words and burps them up at random intervals. Sorry about the terrible analogy. Or when the rhyming makes it seem strained and doesn't fit. But what's most annoying is when it's obvious the person spent 5 seconds writing it.