Things You Like and Dislike About Poems

I don't like it when people try to add detail, but it just ends up coming out sounding forced, unnatural, and disrupts the flow of the poem. Or when the rhymes are forced.

I love it when everything flows and you can tell there's emotion in it. Sometimes poems can just seem flat and robotic.

druscilla's statue.:

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.

Me, too. I always feel really smart when I figure those out

I also have a fetish for metaphors. Good metaphors, that make sense, and have a real meaning. Kind of ties in to hidden meanings, but I like it when a metaphor isn't so fanciful that it's impossible to pick out what it's really supposed to say. There's a really thin balance for me, but when I actually find one like that it's so… :brightside:

The ryhming thing has been mentioned a lot already, but I'd like to add on to that by saying that I really don't like that people think all poems H A V E to rhyme. They don't .

And sometimes? The most powerful poems are the ones that don't.

Look at song lyrics; not all of them rhyme.
Their a form of poetry, are they not?

I often submit my lyrics in the poems.

I hate overly angsty poems. I know a lot of people write poems based on emotion but there is line between emotion and over-done.

I like free write poems because I know it's true and not just going for a rhyme. That's why I write them most of the time now too, it's limitless.

Felidae Evol:

I hate overly angsty poems. I know a lot of people write poems based on emotion but there is line between emotion and over-done

Agreed. I mean, I've read poems that are
"And a pain so fierce developed as I cut my wrists. Crystal like tears fell from my blue, blue eyes."

Oh, that was a pain to write that. :XD

Poems should tell a story, should be an insight to the writers thoughts, life, and suroundings.
Spelling bugs me also. I cant spell worth a damn but I know how to use a spell checker.
Structure. That is the line between terrible and ok.
You would never see someone like Andi Kato or Eric Hamilton writing without a propper flow to their work.

I have been on mibba for two days now and I cant find a decent poet to watch.
Any sugestions?

^ I dunno, I'm alright.

Sruti (Mike Dirnt.) is excellent.

When I'm writing a poem, I dislike trying to figure out the punctuation.
I never know whether or not to put commas and full stops and such at the end of a line or whether to continue on with a lack of much punctuation at all.

When I'm reading poems, I really love to see smart metaphors and short, simple but effective descriptions of emotions. I don't so much like intricate descriptions of people, because that makes them a bit more like a story to me. I'm probably guilty of doing that a little bit, though.

Double post :oops:
Sorry.

Things I Dislike:

+When the end rhymes are the same words or are the exact same sounds, and might as well be the same words.
_____ex: "If you can't stand the way this place is
_________Take! Yourself! To higher places!"
_________-From "Break" by Three Days Grace.

+When someone posts something as a 'poem,' but there are no lines. The whole things reads like a paragraph, literally, where the next word wraps over to the next line. I don't understand how that is poetry; it's prose.

+When the poem is free verse, with no rhyme or form, and its lines are long. I can read and like a poem that is free verse with medium to short lengths of lines, but with long, drawn out lines and nothing to make it flow like rhyme or some other technique, it gets boring and it loses its flow.

+When a poem's line-lengths vary greatly, whether measured by words or syllables. It just ruins the flow, or there is no flow at all, and I can't read poetry that doesn't flow at least moderately.

Things I Love:

+When I can identify a rhythm, and the flow is flawless.

+When there is an underlying meaning to every detail of the poem.

I really can't even think of any specific things I love about poems because there are far too many. I'll come back and edit this as I think of them.

My Own Writing:

A large portion of the poetry I've written rhymes. And most of the time, I counted syllables to make sure that my lines were similar in lengths, even if not exactly the same. My purpose in both of those was to make sure there was some kind of flow, and in my experience, rhyme and similar amounts of syllables in the lines aid flow to an extent. In keeping with that, although I do have free verse, I try to keep my lines relatively short so that nothing is drawn out and dull.

I haven't really mastered having a whole theme underlying the entire poem, or having each little detail be significant to the entirety. I haven't been able to make much of my poetry very universal; it's pretty much all personal. I also haven't had much success at writing in forms such as sonnets or sestinas. However, I intend to try to accomplish all of those things in the future.

I prefer free "style" poetry without rhyme.

I don't really read poetry, but it really bugs me when they're about pointless topics like trees.

spiritual advisor.:

I don't really read poetry, but it really bugs me when they're about pointless topics like trees.

I like it when it's a metaphor.
You just reminded me that I actually wrote a poem about trees once that was a metaphor for teenagers girls.

understanding dru.:

I like it when it's a metaphor.
You just reminded me that I actually wrote a poem about trees once that was a metaphor for teenagers girls.

A metaphor for teenage girls? How does that work?
And I like poems to be meaningful and have a good meaning behind them. Otherwise when I read them, I kinda feel...lost, almost.

spiritual advisor.:

A metaphor for teenage girls? How does that work?

Women/Trees.
It's not good. I was fifteen when I wrote it, I think.

scream druscilla.:

Women/Trees.
It's not good. I was fifteen when I wrote it, I think.

I get it now.
And it is good! It's got to be one of the best poems I've read!

spiritual advisor.:

I get it now.
And it is good! It's got to be one of the best poems I've read!

You flatter me. I really think it's just god awful.
I used to post on a certain site multiple times a day so I kind of spit out poems like toothpaste.
I don't really write a lot of poetry anymore.

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But like I said, I prefer free-verse. (I remembered the word!)
I like it when poetry is born and is just sort of like liquid, being able to do what it likes.
I don't like it when there are rules about rhyming and meter and etc.

scream druscilla.:

I don't like it when there are rules about rhyming and meter and etc.

I also hate that.

When I write poetry, it automatically comes out flowy and rhyming (well, usually). I don't really like free verse, because it's hard for me to identify the rhythm, but I've read some decent ones (and written one decent non-rhyming poem) before. Rhyming poetry is my favorite, except when the rhyme scheme is like AABB CCDD. I prefer rhymes to skip lines. Most if not all of my poetry is written ABAB or ABACBC or some crazy stuff like that.

I don't really like love poems. Writing or reading them, they have to be REALLY well done not to come off as cheesy and lame to me. But poetry about self-mutilation or heartbreak are kind of the same way. I prefer story poetry and long metaphors and pretty words. Lots of imagery. I've never learned a poetic form (except like haiku), but props to anyone who can write that stuff. I've tried, and it requires more thinking than I can put into poetry.

I love metaphors, and just fantastic one liners that make you go 'wait, what?' I also love free-verse and prefer it much more than rhyming poems.