is there a such thing as GOOD poetry?

[Mr Films]

cuz I seriously can't tell genius from dog shit when it comes down to it.

[roosta]

I like one or two things...some stuff by Yeats, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html) by Eliot but my favourite is Desiderata (http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/desiderata.html)

So yeah, theres a few good things, but for the most part it goes over my head.

[QueenAdrock]

I've read some good poetry. Full of metaphors and shit you gotta figure out. Shakespeare-type stuff. Stuff that'll make you think. I hate that bullshit where it just talks about death and darkness and hurt and angst that's like 90% of myspace poetry.

Edit: You know, I was thinking of Prufrock when I wrote this but I couldn't remember what it was called. (y)

[kaiser soze]

Poetry rocks and mocks and shocks the incivility of discrimination
without the sheild of self-inflammatory disingenious.
Religious monikers beckon for peace while chewing on the grease of greed
Thumbing our noses and twittling our thumbs round and around...
penis power, churning butter like rockets grumbling and tumbling....overhead, on our skin, in our heads
the vagina is where we came from and the hole in the earth where we will return will be just as warm
worms

[Auton]

Leonard Cohen is my favorite, but I'm biased because I liked his music before I bought any of his books.
Margaret Atwood is a close runner up
William Blake 2nd runner up
W.B Yeats
T.S Eliot
Ezra Pound

and talking about poetry on here is pretty damn silly.

[kleptomaniac]

why, yes there is (http://beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=74032)


that's my kind of poetry (y)

[QueenAdrock]

We're looking down on Wayne's basement.
Only that's not Wayne's basement.
Isn't that weird?

Yeah, that's weird. Garth! That was a haiku!

[kleptomaniac]

We're looking down on Wayne's basement.
Only that's not Wayne's basement.
Isn't that weird?

Yeah, that's weird. Garth! That was a haiku!

hahahaha

[Bob]

poetry's for homos

[Auton]

:(

[Bob]

:(

emotions are also for homos

[Auton]

are pretty flowers ok? real pretty ones?

[Bob]

are pretty flowers ok? real pretty ones?

homos, pretty much

[ToucanSpam]

Yes, there is such thing as GOOD poetry. I don't claim to be an expert but there is some really dry, ancient crap produced in the 1930s that could pass for early Romantic era.

This is obviously my own opinion:

The Good Ones:

Carl Sandburg
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
TS Eliot (thank you whoever said Prufrock)
William Carlos Williams
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mina Loy
Amy Lowell
Emily Dickinson

The Bad Ones:
Ezra Pound (hate his poetry, he is a hypocrit although his essays are amazing)
Gertrude Stein (experimental stuff is hit or miss)
Hilda Dolittle (I don't fancy most of Pound's followers)
Wallace Stevens (Well, maybe neutral on him...)

[mickill]

Yes. It's called RAP. Rap, man.

Rap.

[mickill]

The Last Poets are digable as well.

[Bob]

Yes. It's called RAP. Rap, man.

Rap.

rap's for homophobes

[mickill]

Bob's for punching.

[HEIRESS]

I totally own this LOLZ (http://www.amazon.com/American-Night-Writings-Morrison-Vintage/dp/0679734627)