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WHY DO WE WRITE POETRY?
WHY DO WE WRITE POETRY?
I wonder why we tend to write
our verse and mostly at midnight.
We wait long time with our pen
for thoughts to come not knowing when.
We write about some useless thoughts
that concern none except our hearts.
We use a language quite obscure
to dress the verse with what can lure.
Insisting on wasting the time,
why don't we spend it on good rhyme,
the verse that brightens our day
and makes us pass a clearer way?
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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I wonder why we tend to write
our verse and mostly at midnight.
We wait long time with our pen
for thoughts to come not knowing when.
We write about some useless thoughts
that concern none except our hearts.
We use a language quite obscure
to dress the verse with what can lure.
Insisting on wasting the time,
why don't we spend it on good rhyme,
the verse that brightens our day
and makes us pass a clearer way?
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
____________________________________
Published 15th Jul 2020
| Edited 16th Jul 2020
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16th Jul 2020 4:15pm
"We write about some useless thoughts
that concerns none except our hearts."???
Shouldn't this be "useless thoughts that CONCERN none except our hearts?
Leaving aside the fact that "lure" is a transitive verb and needs an object, how does "obscure language" persuade someone to do something or go somewhere by offering them something exciting?
Once again, poor writing that shows that your grasp of English grammar is not as good as you claim it is. And you hardly speak for everyone, as you are here implicitly claiming to do, in your answer to your question of why "we" write poetry.
Dear Baldwin,
1-Don't you notice that CONCERNS is a blunder that any professor of English grammar can make when he is interested in writing something.
1-Don't you notice that CONCERNS is a blunder that any professor of English grammar can make when he is interested in writing something.
"Don't [sic "didn't"? ]you notice that CONCERNS is a blunder that any professor of English grammar can make when he is interested in writing something.
The issue isn't what blunders a professor of English CAN make, let alone what I did or did not notice. It's whether someone who claims to know English grammar better than anyone here SHOULD be making such a grammatical blunder if he is really good at English composition. It's also WHY and HOW his being interested in writing is an excuse for his making blunders. Is he not interested in writing well? Does an interest in writing justify laziness with respect to grammar? Why would he not take the care he should be taking when pursuing his interest to avoid making blunders. Does he not proofread what he writes before he posts it?
Also, should he have written the grammatically gaffed: "We wait long time with our pen" if he is truly interested in writing well and in not coming across to his "public" as one who thinks that "measurement" is more important than, and takes precedence over, good grammar?
The issue isn't what blunders a professor of English CAN make, let alone what I did or did not notice. It's whether someone who claims to know English grammar better than anyone here SHOULD be making such a grammatical blunder if he is really good at English composition. It's also WHY and HOW his being interested in writing is an excuse for his making blunders. Is he not interested in writing well? Does an interest in writing justify laziness with respect to grammar? Why would he not take the care he should be taking when pursuing his interest to avoid making blunders. Does he not proofread what he writes before he posts it?
Also, should he have written the grammatically gaffed: "We wait long time with our pen" if he is truly interested in writing well and in not coming across to his "public" as one who thinks that "measurement" is more important than, and takes precedence over, good grammar?
17th Jul 2020 6:57pm
O what presumptuous arrogance you show
when you compose ((with deixis and gross solecisms too)
and post a piece that claims to know
just when all poets write
and what their thoughts are like
and what they are to do linguistically
to craft with art their words
so that they’d have the power to
lift up a reader’s heart
and bring him to the brink
of ecstasy.
Yes, arrogance, I say,
for everything you write displays
how poor your sense of what goes in
to writing well,
of how to show, not tell,
and how to be evocative, not dull,
in verse so truly is.
For you to even think you have
the smallest grasp
of why and when it is
that poets feel compelled
to set words on a page
is just ridiculous, and once again,
despite your known pretense
as a recipient of wisdom’s gifts,
makes plain that when it comes to poetry
you’re not by any means a sage.
when you compose ((with deixis and gross solecisms too)
and post a piece that claims to know
just when all poets write
and what their thoughts are like
and what they are to do linguistically
to craft with art their words
so that they’d have the power to
lift up a reader’s heart
and bring him to the brink
of ecstasy.
Yes, arrogance, I say,
for everything you write displays
how poor your sense of what goes in
to writing well,
of how to show, not tell,
and how to be evocative, not dull,
in verse so truly is.
For you to even think you have
the smallest grasp
of why and when it is
that poets feel compelled
to set words on a page
is just ridiculous, and once again,
despite your known pretense
as a recipient of wisdom’s gifts,
makes plain that when it comes to poetry
you’re not by any means a sage.
17th Jul 2020 9:34pm
I feel shy to praise my poetry because l don't like to write favourably about myself, but as you know the other groups where l write, you can read that yourself. However, at least l call it poetry, whereas yours, l don't know what to call it. I leave it to your conscience to give a name.
17th Jul 2020 10:35pm
When did I ask you to praise your poetry?
And what sort of English is "but as you know the other groups where l write, you can read that yourself" ? Did you mean to say "But as you know, you find others on the other sites I post to doing so (i.e., praising my work)".
In any case, I have read what the (very few) others "say" about your writings on the other sites you post to. Besides the fact that most of these others are related to you, there's not a single bit of evidence that these others there have any knowledge of what characteristics a writing has to have in order to be poetry, let alone good poetry. Moreover, the "comments" you receive are rarely ever more than a "like". There's rarely, if ever, any articulated "praise".
It's also to be noted that you are implicitly claiming when you say that I don't write poetry, that those here who read what I post and comment favorably upon my postings, don't know what they are talking about.
And you have yet to show on the grounds that **you have stated** are what a piece of writing has to have to be poetry (rhythm, rhyme, a good subject) that my submissions are not poetry. In fact, you keep dodging this request. That's the sign that you are incapable of doing so.
One of these days, when you are not allowing your ego to get in your way, you might actually be able to see, and even admit, that you are not as good at writing poetry, especially poetry that is gracefully written and in any way evocative, as you think you are.
And what sort of English is "but as you know the other groups where l write, you can read that yourself" ? Did you mean to say "But as you know, you find others on the other sites I post to doing so (i.e., praising my work)".
In any case, I have read what the (very few) others "say" about your writings on the other sites you post to. Besides the fact that most of these others are related to you, there's not a single bit of evidence that these others there have any knowledge of what characteristics a writing has to have in order to be poetry, let alone good poetry. Moreover, the "comments" you receive are rarely ever more than a "like". There's rarely, if ever, any articulated "praise".
It's also to be noted that you are implicitly claiming when you say that I don't write poetry, that those here who read what I post and comment favorably upon my postings, don't know what they are talking about.
And you have yet to show on the grounds that **you have stated** are what a piece of writing has to have to be poetry (rhythm, rhyme, a good subject) that my submissions are not poetry. In fact, you keep dodging this request. That's the sign that you are incapable of doing so.
One of these days, when you are not allowing your ego to get in your way, you might actually be able to see, and even admit, that you are not as good at writing poetry, especially poetry that is gracefully written and in any way evocative, as you think you are.
17th Jul 2020 11:38pm
Your words assure me that my poetry is excellent because l don't know anyone of those poets who COMMENT FAVOURABLY AND A LOT on my poetry. This idea is enough to me. You can say whatever you like. I know you very well. Thanks for your last REASSURING COMMENT. JZ
18th Jul 2020 00:44am
"Your words assure me that my poetry is excellent because l don't know anyone of those poets who COMMENT FAVOURABLY AND A LOT on my poetry."
So you know of no one who comments favourably on your poetry, and you are aware that your work never receives many comments. How would this indicate that your poetry is excellent?
So you know of no one who comments favourably on your poetry, and you are aware that your work never receives many comments. How would this indicate that your poetry is excellent?
