Are you setting a bad example when you let your poem be punk (uationless)?

Question

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STUBBORN AS AN OAK

I stop the pump

then run and jump

and wait for

Dynomite blowing

I hit the stump

with bang and bump

and now, I want

it exploding

The frikken thing

cut down last spring

a tree

for fireplace burning

And with a boom

in fire consumed

The remnants of

Oaken fury

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Answer 1

What I find very often is that IM text is used to write stories and poetry -- and that will never last.

I think your question is excellent, and the answer is yes.

I like your poem, which is the one that proves the rules wrong.

T.

Answer 2

No not at all

Answer 3

oh thank you, this was like a gemstone that can never be cut because it is so facet-nating! nice mix of the silly and sullen, the profound and profane. Do you have more?

Answer 4

hmm.. interesting poem...

i cant really see what it's about though

Answer 5

Absotively

Posilutely

a bad

example

Answer 6

No, punk is a style and poetry is anything =) nothing is wrong

Answer 7

As far as I can tell no punk would would probably make my life easier...it really is not seemly to obsess over commas and semicolons...it worries ones children.

Answer 8

nope. poetry is poetry

Answer 9

Punctuation should be used only when the artist feels it should be used.

Answer 10

I think you are missing the point.

Answer 11

you maverick you

Yep I set a bad eg aiight.

You get more punk for your punct if you are punctless. But I do concede punking a poem is just like "pimping a ride". Makes it look purdier!

Hey Ed

Pimp ma pome

Crimp ma style

Prime ma paper

Woteva you wont son

I aint fussin none

Unpunct is raw

and keepin it

real dude

'ats wots for

sayin

I'm a big fan of punctlessness. I only punct so the editors will view kindly.

Answer 12

Nothing is a "bad example" if it is an expression from a soul.  How can that be bad? Punctuation, however, allows for ease of reading and full understanding of what is conveyed to a 'larger audience.'  Depends on who you are writing for, someone looking for a song, your buds on the corner, or the general population, publishers, others poets, etc.

Expression comes from the individual, raw and open and fresh and new and foreign and inviting and exciting and all things wild and young.  Punctuation allows us to express what we have inside us with the same passion, the same breathing in which we feel it.

Poetry is meant to be soul communicating with soul.  

I love your example by the way because your structure overcame the need for punctuation.  The structure itself allowed for the "breathing" in the communication.

Answer 13

"Hi!",

an explosive liitle poem.

This part here I don't think flows smoothly.

The frikken thing

cut down last spring

a tree

for fireplace burning

but I'm no poet. Only my opinion.

Cheers : )

Answer 14

Of course you are, that's the whole point in doing it. Creating what you want to create, for the sake of creation... That's a pretty scary notion for a government, or anyone to deal with, right?

Answer 15

Cheeky me!

Are you setting a bad example

When you spell

Dynamite

as you do?

Unless, once again,

It's a case of American

Perversity

In choosing to spell

Anyway you feel

'What the h**l.

It's only words

After all'

Don't get me for this...I can't help myself....I go around carrying a felt-tipped pen to correct badly spelled notices in Doctors' waiting rooms and shops! I'm lying - but, I would love to do so.  My local supermarket has a PRINTED sign saying "Unfortunatley we cannot accept cheques for payments under £10"  I had to tell the assistant it was incorrect....why did I bother? Every week I see the sign...it drives me mad.

Great poem....don't miss punctuation one little bit.

Answer 16

I love it when you do this. I will die from jealousy.

Answer 17

No, no meter, rhyming off

Answer 18

that was cooool Jellz!!

(hands TD marshmallows)

Answer 19

The HUGE old oak came down at our cottage (tranquility photo) right between the dinner bell (3 feet from the house) and the trailer (8 feet from the house). Hit twice by lightning, only half of it lived, but a miracle still, that it  fell where it did.

We can "enjoy" the place til the end of September, after that I'll just have my photos for rememberance.....

*EDIT: I think the poem is magnificent...My Uncle asked:"What do you want from the place?" Mt first thought was the fireplace....not do-able, so I'm bringning back one of the first ever (late 50's) light-up, sound effects photos of a deer at a stream...It's totally cool, man.

Answer 20

To be extraordinary, you have to write different from the ordinary.

Answer 21

All the best writers break the rules.......because rules are meant to be broken (in writing, at least...it keeps it interesting).  Humbly, I would change one word in your fantastic poem.......("frikken"......should be "friggin" ) LOL!!