Is this a good poem please respond

Question

a thought went through my mind

what is this world I live in?

Is it even real?

is this all a challenge, or a test?

to see the strongest of faith?

If it is a test

what are the answers we are looking for?

Isn't it interesting though

that I would be in this time and place

why here?

why now?

If God wanted me in this time

he must have wanted to see

if I would stay strong in my faith

and still believe in him,

BUT if God knows all things..

then why put us through this if he knows the end result

there must be some reason that we were put here

why there are those who believe and not believe

maybe we were put here to find those who have wandered

bring them back.

these are the times,

when we must know the answers,

the answers in the word

these are the times when the number of wanderers

are at an extreme.

these are the times,

when all the pieces are coming together

the gears are turning

the devil readies his army

the final breath before the plunge

the end...

is near.

Answer 1

I like it.  It sort of straddles the line between poetry and prose.  It it paints an interesting picture. Personally makes me think of an impending apocolypse..

The ideas in it are true, genuine self-expression which is why I think it is interesting to read.  

Personally, I disagree with Yara, I don't think poetry should be about following arbitrary "rules" put in place by "literature professors".  I think if you are speaking with the revelation of your soul, then it's poetry.  Listen to your own rules.

Answer 2

loved it

Answer 3

OMG i have a simillar poem pls see http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... i really liked yours

Answer 4

Annother one of these wannabes...

Thats NOT a poem. Breaking up a prose piece which happens to have a lot of commas into lines, does not mkae a poem!

Don't they teach you anything in school anymore?!?!?! Arhg!!!

At least now I know what my late literature professor meant...



Edit:

Chewy, if we don't make destinctions between things, why would we need words for it? If prose and poetry is just a matter of definition and perception why would we had to distinguish there in the first place? If a man holds his wife hostage and says that he 'loves' here and not that he is 'obsessed' why do we have words to make a difference?

Do you think that the differences between poetry and prose are there for fun?! That they just developed for the fun of it? Do you think any three liner can be an Haiku? An Haiku has specific rules that make it what it is. Brown is 'brown' because it is different to 'green' and 'blue' and 'red'. Because there is so much varity in life we have to distinguish it in order to appriciate it.

Because we have learnt these differences, we expect something. If you would look for a brown sweater, and the sales-assitant would bring you a blue sweater, because essentially its still a sweater, you would be dissapointed and kind of annoyed.

If someone is claiming they wrote  scific-novel, but in fact wrote  a biography, wouldn't you think thats wrong?

I have no problem with what he's (she's) written. It's just that I can't see why you would label beef with chicken.

If every football player would listen to his 'own rules' insteadt of the ones written in the official books, do you think they'd play one decent game together?!

Why is it that you believe there to be no difference between prose and poetry? Do you think there are no rules? Rules only make sense if everyone keeps to them. A definition is a definition because it defines something. You wouldn't call a square a circle because you make your own rules of geometry and language, right?

Btw, my prof was a brilliant man (at least to me and I am sure many others) and he helped many people and thaught me more than just academic things. He wasn't someone to be looked down upon by people like you. Plus, I don't know what your mother thaught you, but talking badly about the death brings bad luck.

I don't know if it is costumary where you come from for teachers to teach stuff they made up themselfes but here it isn't.

Now, to clarify that: I did not mean to be offensive towards Kelly, all I say is that that is not a poem. It does not mean what she has written is bad, (although personally its not my tatse, although thats probably is because I am not religious and can't relate) it means that its not a poem.