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The Gayness of Poetry
Awful rhythms and crappy rhymes
Annoying beats always in time
More painful to listen than Sunday’s chime
Poets use big words of something sublime
If you ask me, they all need a kick in the behind
Always being dumped, and oh how they cried
How they’re apparently going to the dark side
On about this pebble, and the beauty of this tide
These bullshit topics, must take hours to decide
Cooped up in their bedrooms, where they reside
Complayning of speling, as if it all matters
When it’s just letters on a page all scattered
It doesn’t make much sense, it’s all just chatter
Give ‘em a bit of critique, and they all just shatter
Stuck behind this screen, dying at its light
Crying life is a bitch I can’t take its bites
I’ll just moan here as I’m too scared to fight
But I find it ironic which is quite right
Because I can’t get my ass off of this site
Annoying beats always in time
More painful to listen than Sunday’s chime
Poets use big words of something sublime
If you ask me, they all need a kick in the behind
Always being dumped, and oh how they cried
How they’re apparently going to the dark side
On about this pebble, and the beauty of this tide
These bullshit topics, must take hours to decide
Cooped up in their bedrooms, where they reside
Complayning of speling, as if it all matters
When it’s just letters on a page all scattered
It doesn’t make much sense, it’s all just chatter
Give ‘em a bit of critique, and they all just shatter
Stuck behind this screen, dying at its light
Crying life is a bitch I can’t take its bites
I’ll just moan here as I’m too scared to fight
But I find it ironic which is quite right
Because I can’t get my ass off of this site
Published 28th Jul 2011
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28th Jul 2011 5:18pm
28th Jul 2011 5:55pm
Yeah, not sure about the title. I assume it's "gay" in the homosexual sense (as if being gay is a bad thing) rather than in the happy sense... although I appreciate the significance of the ambiguity in the title. If is is in the homosexual sense then I'd question that.
That's all I have. I'm sure others will comment too. :)
That's all I have. I'm sure others will comment too. :)
28th Jul 2011 6:22pm
yeah i used the word 'gay' for its ambiguity, not that homosexuality is a bad thing but i grew up with poetry being 'gay' for being more feminine than masculine, also the word has acquired a new meaning of being rubbish which is why i've used it, thanks for the comment anyway!
28th Jul 2011 6:38pm
It´s a good poem through and through, but I don´t think the title gives the effect you are looking for.
28th Jul 2011 6:48pm
28th Jul 2011 7:09pm
29th Jul 2011 3:22pm
Like "frivolity"? Although it doesn't have that same ambiguity.
Just to restate my original thought, I don't agree with the word choice, but I understand it. So I suppose from that perspective, perhaps it should just stay as it is.
Just to restate my original thought, I don't agree with the word choice, but I understand it. So I suppose from that perspective, perhaps it should just stay as it is.
29th Jul 2011 10:12pm
