Skateboards and Scotland

Hmm.. this one definatly has hidden meanings!

eh, hold one, that poem was made up on the spot, very quickly. Anyhow, poetry is meant to be sh*te, that's its perpose.

poetry can be anything you want it to be

listen to jeff. he know what he talk about.

i do actually like your poems robb

hmmm

just because we don't like your poetry doesn't mean that we aren't open minded.

All u seem to be doing is trying to rhyme things off. You aren't using wordplay type things like alliteration or assonance. I can't see any play on words in your poems.

I thnk poetry can be whatever you wan it to be, I disagree that the purpose of poetry and all art is to evoke an emotianal response in the reader/viewer/whatever, that can be part of it, but I see poetry and art as a selfish medium, a way to express yourself, assert your own views, opinions, and emotions on the reader, in a way that would otherwise be impossible. Poetry doesn't have to come from the heart for it to be good, nor does it have to be charged with emotion, and evoke an emotional response in the reader.

If you wish to express yourself in 'crap' then very well, go right ahead. Personally, I don't think this poem's crap, it's not the greatest poetry in the world, it's ok, but whatever. Then again, I'm not a fan of most of the poetry on here (no offence intended to anyone) although it is much much better than anything I could ever write.

Personally I think it's a bit of both of your views. It's a form of personal expression, it can be meant to provoke an emotional response, or both.

Or in the case of illustration, to help the reader imagine what is happening and what things look like.

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btw, if art isnt supposed to evoke a response from its viewer than what is its purpose? yes an artist puts themselves into art but the only reason an artist would do this is to geta response from the participant/veiwer/reader therefor unless art is made to portray an emotion or to evoke an emotion it has no purpose and is superfluous to anything and therefor irrelavant

a good point, art is irrelevant, to me anyway. Art in my opinion is for the artist's own personal reasons, nothing to do with a greater good of making people feel a certain emotion, that is simply a by-product.

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Robbie its no good using the same arguement everytime especially when someone has said something to present an opposing view to it already

Darren, please don't go off on one of your "I've already proved your argument wrong" posts...

well, you do a bit

Hey, it's not supposed to be insulting, but simply you said I never used similes and the like, so, just to prove I know what they are.

Don't call me a tw*t, you don't know me.

Right, stop that right there. not allowing personal insults on here.

topic locked.

I think I gonna write up some rules for the poetry section, it's caused a lot of probs so far, and I draw the line at personal insults, that too far, criticise someones work by all means, call it sh*t if you absolutely must, but do not insult the author.