Why write poetry

53.45% • 31 votes • All of the above
18.97% • 11 votes • Some other reason
13.79% • 8 votes • Put emotions into motion
12.07% • 7 votes • Sooth the tormented soul
1.72% • 1 vote • Explain the world
0% • 0 votes • Make sense of random events
Total votes: 58
Only members can vote. Not a member? Sign Up Now

Go to page:

Why write poetry

edead
Thought Provoker
United States
Joined 9th Mar 2014
Forum Posts: 47

Why paint a picture? Why sing a song or hum a melody? Why dance or make music?  I don't know why we need to do these things but we humans have been doing them for a long time. Self expression? To pretend, or fool, ourselves into thinking that we are different than the other billions of people crawling on the globe?

lightbaron
Dangerous Mind
United States 15awards
Joined 19th Jan 2012
Forum Posts: 2374

Language has become so diluted that it takes a certain level of poetry to have a decent conversation

Nattyroots97
Strange Creature
Joined 30th June 2014
Forum Posts: 1

To create meaningful substance that benefits humanity

LizB
Twisted Dreamer
United States 1awards
Joined 19th Jan 2014
Forum Posts: 65

To keep the insane sane

poet Anonymous

Miss_Sub said:[quote-268934-sw9618]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. [/quote]

Thanks Missy, I am assuming you agree...

BoFantastic
Thought Provoker
7awards
Joined 24th Apr 2014
Forum Posts: 333

Good question. Poets don't get paid like authors, novelists, journalists, song writers, screen writers, rappers, or speech writers. Poets don't get paid. So we don't write for the money. Come to think of it, I never did anything I loved for money. I mean it wasn't motivated by money. It was inspired by grace.

I write because of inspiration. And when I read other people's stuff, I am inspired by their writing too. When I read your guys' stuff, I get inspired, and humbled.

Necromancer311
Lost Thinker
South Africa
Joined 30th June 2014
Forum Posts: 3

There are things in life we could not possibly hope to understand or comprehend and poetry makes it easier for us to understand what we could not not possible hope to know

jvp
Thought Provoker
United States 2awards
Joined 21st June 2014
Forum Posts: 91

deleted

Mystic_Dreamer
Chels
Twisted Dreamer
United States
Joined 10th Nov 2012
Forum Posts: 15

To connect and disconnect, to pour out what my mouth refuses to voice, to live and die....
to feel....

dartford
Paul S...
Tyrant of Words
United Kingdom 29awards
Joined 13th June 2013
Forum Posts: 251

an ex partner once asked me the same
question. I said, can you think of anything
better to do, and apparently she could...

praveengola
Lost Thinker
India 1awards
Joined 23rd Feb 2013
Forum Posts: 66

Poetry writing is a plate ,
where one garnishes His fate ,
as it was dismantled by some thought ,
that made Him to fought ,
with His inner zeal ,
when his lips were tightly sealed.

ShadowsandWind
Twisted Dreamer
United States 1awards
Joined 10th Aug 2010
Forum Posts: 86

ifs all about the transmutation , baby

Micheal
Anonymous 2
Lost Thinker
United States
Joined 4th July 2014
Forum Posts: 6

Poetry, for me, is a form of release. The release of emotions and thoughts that are stored within - anxiously awaiting to be expressed. The release can be positive, or negative. But regardless of what end of the spectrum emotions and thoughts come from - release is healthy for us all. I also write to inspire others. Words are powerful and can be used to turn this world around. There is no poem that I write (or perform) that is not meant to inspire an individual or an audience.

ASK
Twisted Dreamer
Denmark 1awards
Joined 8th July 2014
Forum Posts: 7

Poetry helps me keep my head above the water

Blood_Merchant93
BeautifulManiac
Thought Provoker
United Kingdom
Joined 30th June 2010
Forum Posts: 88

Poetry helps my tormented mind feel just a little less insane.

Go to page:
Go to: