An MTS/poetry challenge

LOL! This...is brilliant...

I'll try but it might be the morning before I get one on. It's okay if it sucks, right? Cuz I'm like sooooo not a poet.

Oh man. This evening has been fun haha.

I'm game!

I didn't get along with the poets very well.

This reminds me of the Little Willie Poems. I read a few when I was a kid and never forgot one of them. Anyway, here is a link I found on the net. Just thought I'd share.

heyjude said:

Why not, bigb?

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They don't like free form poetry.
I had an explanation for a crit and that was a big mistake.

Huh? Most of the poets I've known have done free form. I thought that was kind of the style of the moment?

I stand kind of in awe of poets. They actually understand things like symbolism and meter and all those things that just go straight over my head. Yup, symbolism. You think I'm kidding. I know as a novelist I should be good at that sorta thing, but nope. Unless it's ridiculously obvious it goes straight over my head.

Here's my entry, I'll have to post it and watch the poets go crazy because it's so bad.

I kill people,
Because it's fun.
Why do I do it?
Reason, there ain't none.

Go put it in the poetry room thread, Todd. It fits in perfectly.

We celebrate National Poetry Month (April) in our village. We're quite artsy and creative in Wyoming County, NY.

So on the weekend of the 24th, I think it is, copies of poems get plastered all over the windows of the businesses along Main Street. The arts council is open so any passers by can go in write a poem, and slap outside on some window. Its pretty cool, all the business go along with it every year. Then you can read them as you walk down the street, or if you like it, take it off to share it with someone else. (Usually there are a few copies of each poem in case someone wants to do that.) It's way fun! Looks quite pretty too with all the pretty colored paper flapping in the wind.