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[BuddyC]

man oh man, i don't know how i'm going to get through this. there's only so many times i can hear about the losing your virginity, the release of suicide and God's salvation...and we're only on the second poem.

so let's post good poetry here. i'll start off with some real piss poor examples, and you guys can up the ante.

so this is a dialogue huh
yea and it's a poem too
how crazy is that
pretty crazy duder
aren't you like
really bad at writing poems?

yea, but i figure
one day i'll work it all out
so now we're taking up
two lines per person?

it appears so
one could assume i'm just
a really poor writer

well, seeing as
how each thing I say is taking
three or four lines now
basically it's own stanza
they may have a point

yea, but at least i'm almost done

you did stay up all night
for no real reason
why do we have all these
weird breaks in our sentences?
and why do most stanzas end
with a question mark?
you shouldn't be allowed to write poetry.

this time around
i promise that i won't
fall back on dialogue
to pad the stanzas

easy as that may be
the problem is that
it's almost too easy
and where's the fun in that?

moving on to stanza three
i'd this is is going pretty well
then again
i would

of course
now is about the time
where i long to pad
the poem with fluffy dialogue
but i can't use the same cop out twice
in one assignment

so now i'm let
with a stanza or two to write
and all that's left
is the apology

that is
fellow classmates
i apologize to you
especially for my last essay
it was really bad
and i knew that when i wrote it
Sorry.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

You should write a poem about the release of pee... on their cars! Seriously! Pee on their cars! Why doesn't anyone pee on anyones' cars anymore!?

 

[BuddyC]

well, considering that the main criticism of my poetry (and i use that term very lightly) is that my characters never do anything or go anywhere, that's actually not a bad idea.

 

[Willco]

For a class assignment when I was in the magnet program, we all had to write poems with some crazy structure that I've completely forgotten now. At any rate, my poem was entitled, "Baby Bunnies Killed by Lawnmowers" and I was sent to in-school suspension after I read it out loud to the class due to content (it was seen as an intentional classroom distraction or some shit).

 

[BuddyC]

:lol

we're on to poems regarding the God's salvation. whee.

edit: now it's time for the fairy poems, with their fair skin and tattered clothes!

 

[BuddyC]

Maybe before you fall asleep
You’ll notice.
And maybe you’ll open me,
And read the pages deep inside,
Or so I hope.

:lol