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    any poets?

    and, do you think that if you know the poet personally, your idea of the poem changes? i think yes. sorry but i don't remember which lyfe was when i knew shakespeare, or even if i knew him at all...

    "But if the while I think on thee dear friend"
    "All losses are restored, and sorrows end"

    if i knew him, i hope i would feel the same about his sonnet 30.

    so... any poets? i don't know any of you, so i wouldn't feel...
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    Me poet.

    My name is Yoshi the Poet.
    Yoshi

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    can i read some of your work?
    hasafraggin shizigishin oppashigger...

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    I write some, mostly when I'm sad; and most of it sucks.

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    In My Brain:

    My brain,
    it feels pain.

    In my Brain
    there is pain
    when I think.

    I feel pain
    In my brain.

    WOW, im a pretty goo poet.
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    my sister is actually a pretty good poet, but she never lets me read any of it because it's about her crush.
    "The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit."
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    beans, beans...
    shall I continue?

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    haha... i'm serious! haha... ha... ha... okay i'm done now... ha...

    c'mon people now! smile on your brother, everybody get together, try and love one another right now...
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    I have the english skills of a deaf african from 2.9 Thousond years ago.My sis on the otehr hand is a published poet(only one poem but still published)but she has kinda stoped in the last few years(the poem was published when she was 15 I think, shes now 18). My skills are so bad I just found the rhyming scheme of cat in the hat :-)
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    oh c'mon! poetry is _not_ hard!!! (btw i like your sig... hehe)...

    oh just like you mindless male programmers... so deterministik... i'm asking cuz i know you all have special untapped abilities!!!
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    Thanks for the Compliment on the sig.
    I have untapped skills, I'm a 13373 |-|4|<3R *sarcasism*
    "Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"

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    No, poetry is definitely hard - good poetry. Bad poetry is easy - rhythm is hard, and rhythm is important: if you disagree, then you suffer some malady similar to being tone deaf.

    Metaphors aren't hard, but good one are.

    Rhyme is trivial jangling, to steal Milton's idea - good rhyme is not easy. Poetry is not cleverness although Marvell certainly impresses with his hidden testing of the reader by his keener eye.

    Of course, to steal from T.S. Eliot ("good poets steal"), the poet is the medium of the time, one who finds the essential rhythme of life or a period.

    To know a poet is to know his works; what is Shakespeare but his canon? The man himself is of no significance, the works well-wrought urns. To quote a czech poet, "who you are is not important."
    I was born; I shall die. Between those two events there is life. I don't know why, and I don't question it; I merely live.

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    I'm a poet:

    I have a shoe
    I don't like you
    Your mother eats poo
    The sky is blue

    She lives in the bay
    while she eats hay
    He says no way
    His name starts with a K

    Ha! I call that "rambling bull.......... poetry" It's the only kind of poetry for men who are not "in touch with their feminine side" (in other words GAY).

    lol

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    I have written a few poems in my life.

    My favorite one is the one I wrote earlier this month...I gave it to a girl...she thought it was sweet...and now I am dating her.

    I like that one...
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