It’s not ‘Poetry’, so what is it?
Posted on August 27th, 2007 by bangbang023
I don’t write poetry. Poetry, by definition, should be “the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts”. The latter part of that definition is where I deviate from the course. My work isn’t beautiful, is too real to be imaginative and definitely doesn’t deliver any kind of elevated thoughts. My pieces are direct, rough, and, to varying degrees, raw. So, what do I write? Diana called it “rhythmic ramblings”. It’s a decent term, but would infer that I never write with a message in mind. That’s, hopefully obviously, not my writing. So, what would you call it? What should I call it?
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call it urban poetry, if you must. though i still don’t know exactly what that is.
It was only ramblings because you were rambling in the last one! Lol