Why write poetry

54.55% • 30 votes • All of the above
20.00% • 11 votes • Some other reason
12.73% • 7 votes • Put emotions into motion
10.91% • 6 votes • Sooth the tormented soul
1.82% • 1 vote • Explain the world
0% • 0 votes • Make sense of random events
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Why write poetry

jvp
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Words splashing across the digital screen, for what reason?  Sharing some tragedy, beauty, love, emotion, desire.  A chance to straighten out our random thoughts.  For me, writing poetry lifts me, typically from one form of pain to another, as the focus shifts.  Why do you write?

Viddax
Lord Viddax
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Sweet subtle dreams draped in words soothes the savaged soul, while bloody rage will out in rampaging words rather than ravenous wounds. Though at times it can make sense of this world with dutiful description and a sideways glance upon what was a random event but now a profound past moment.

All that, and it is also so very useful for bringing forth new worlds and old worlds into this one.

mbass33
matthew bass
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Because it will make you millions of dollars in sentimental money

johnrot
Tyrant of Words
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proof of life............................

Madintellect
Mike stew
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Your mind is like a mustle, and mustles deteriate without excercise. Creativity through poetry is great a work out for your thinking in general, & theres nothing wrong with thinking out stuff a bit every now and then (my opinion anyway)

its good to think about why we do the things we do and understand it better

great discussion
cheers

:)>™

johnrot
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muscle dude----------i second mad's statement with spell check.....................

exe
Lost Thinker
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no, it's an organ but not a muscle.

(to make the gaps in between seconds smoother)
here,
i am forced to write more to attain the same sensation.
and no talking is necessary.
i'm just in denial about my competence
and importance.
no one is quite like me.

slaytanic187
Strange Creature
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Joined 27th June 2014
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Haha anatomy all over again. But it's one of the best ways to be constructive with emotions you don't know how to handle compared to being destructive to yourself or others. makes life just a little more bearable

peninnah
The Blue Rose
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"Slay me first before you kill poetry."
Poetry is my therapy,and more so my lifestyle.She is me,and i am her.
Poetry is my first and my all time classic lover.Without her,there is nothing left of me.
She is the flavor of my beautiful existence,the oxygen in my inhaler and the stamp certifying that indeed i am alive!

johnrot
Tyrant of Words
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the brain is an organ..............roger got it.....


was just correcting spelling  of terminology not placement or designation fal................

slaytanic187
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It's health I'm just stating from a psychological point of view. It's like music with no sound, tranquilizing the emotion that we attempt to abandon

poet Anonymous

You ask "why write poetry," let me be a therapist for a moment and respond with another question, "why breathe?"

nomind
Cesar C.
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it brings a temporary peace...

poet Anonymous

Poetry has become an obsession, addiction...  It's helped me grow emotionally, mentally, spiritually even intellectually. Lol it's my fix to help me when I'm down or just enjoying the the ride my mind decides to take me

poet Anonymous

sw9618 said:You ask "why write poetry," let me be a therapist for a moment and respond with another question, "why breathe?"

... this is honestly one of the best things you've ever said.

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