BORED

[Darth_Tater]

that was a true story and I'm writing this stuff off the top of my head

[wichita]

I once had to right a free verse poem for class. I sat and I arranged the words in a carefully placed layout, adding punctuation where I thought appropriate, and placing the words in a logical physical arrangement on the page so as to allow the reader to follow the flow of my thoughts. I felt the incredible feeling of freedom the free verse format gave me, as there were no rules to follow to rhyme or metre or the number of syllables per line. I felt that I could just open up and be myself and organize the thoughts in my own way, without restriction, to express myself completely and unhindered.

That was the poem I turned in. I got an F. The teacher said my free verse poem was prose.... Why must I be constrained to these incessant rule systems!

[Nixit]

I can comment on lots of things, but I won't.

Why not?

[west]

I once had to right a free verse poem for class. I sat and I arranged the words in a carefully placed layout, adding punctuation where I thought appropriate, and placing the words in a logical physical arrangement on the page so as to allow the reader to follow the flow of my thoughts. I felt the incredible feeling of freedom the free verse format gave me, as there were no rules to follow to rhyme or metre or the number of syllables per line. I felt that I could just open up and be myself and organize the thoughts in my own way, without restriction, to express myself completely and unhindered.

That was the poem I turned in. I got an F. The teacher said my free verse poem was prose.... Why must I be constrained to these incessant rule systems!

Frost said that writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.


Have you ever noticed
that you can just write
normally,
like you're typing a sentence,
and just hit the enter key
more often than usual

and people will think it's poetry?

also,
when you write poetry
make sure you talk about
how tortured your soul is
how deep and dark it is
and how nobody understands it

--they couldn't possibly, because
you are a unique and special snowflake
made from darkness and pain and misery

nobody else has problems
and nobody,
nobody else
writes about them in freeverse.

congratulations
you're a livejournal away
from being just like everyone else


heehee.

[kinvoya]

I feel like you really know me west. Like you can see right into my soul.

I think we should run away to Paris together. I'll sculpt and you can support us by selling your poetry on the street.

Yours truly,

Tortured Grl

[west]

I refuse to become the enemy! The day I sell poetry in the streets is the day that I...

...ooh look, a penny!

But the reason it seems like I can see right into your soul is because I can.

Using these glasses I bought for fifteen bucks from the back of a comic book.

Gosh, it's dusty in there.

[kinvoya]

Hey! That's not my soul you're looking at, dude!

I knew you were a phony all along. I was just using you for your...um...two-for-one dinner discount coupons!

[west]

Damn you, Tortured Girl!

Treachery, thy name is woman!

I shall write a "poem" for the occasion.

Ahem:

Betrayed
My heart,
ripped out
I feel
empty,
broken
used.
used up.

She was using me.
USING
ME!
for coupons
those damn
double coupons
I wish I was dead.

No wait.
I wish she was dead.
that's much smarter.

[kinvoya]

That's Tortured Grl. God, you suck.

My new bf is so much better than you. He really understands me. He's into macrobiotics and we're living on a farm in Tennessee growing organic vegetables.

I feel so free now. You should visit us sometime.

[west]

If I visit Tennessee, it'll only be to visit my nymphomaniac former teacher, who is living in a commune with my best friend and the ex-mayor, and the millionaire and his wife.

[Sunni Daez]

West, come pick me up before you go, I need to go buy some new copper tubing for my ..... ummm.. anyways, I hear that the general store there sells it pretty cheap. Come get me ok?

[Dee]

I can comment on lots of things, but I won't.

Why not?

Because I don't agree with single word you said, then it's going to be a huge argument, and we really don't need any more arguments

[Nixit]

Well, I guess that's expected, as this goes against most religious thinking, but I really don't care if other people believe me or not, so you could post your comments if you felt like it.

[Dee]

I don't want to comment.

I will write a poem, though...

I wait all day just to get a phone call from you
I wait all day maybe till one in the morning or two
Expecting the worse, you telling me we're through

Okay I don't feel like writing a poem so maybe later.

[Pie]

i could write a poem, but nothing comes to mind,
i dont fell insparation, with feeling, or rime,
just writing a verse, one line at a time,
not thinking about speling, or whats outside,
just inside my mind, inside my mind.

writing free vers, is perfict fore me,
i could write about anything, thy, ore thee,
althogh ime not, quite good with riming,
i can try, i can try.

the flowing of poetry, is somthing of beuty,
although nothing will match, a cute?
.....darn, nothing els rimes with beuty.