Why do you write poetry?

Question

Me? I do it because it makes girls smile.

Answer 1

same reason i read it.

to learn it, to feel it.

its the insides outside

that goes back inside.

Answer 2

in all truth. . . I'm still wondering my self. . . no reason seems to be good enough=)

Answer 3

This is a question that must be asked and a question that shall leave me without an answer.

Actually I dont know TD.

Why I write? What answer could I make? Is it an inborn instinct? What is it that tempts me to words? I love them very much...Like Keats said, I love words asthough they form my Lover, my mistress, my wife...and everything born to me and my words are my children.

There is a world that poetry can create...or is it that I create a world for poetry? But I have a feeling of floating about, a musical bliss...I am a wanderer among the blue hills, the velvet blossoms, the twinkling embers of populated skies, the white cloudlets, the slender streams, babbling brooks...i am a lover among words, a priest of words, a sage among words...but sometimes a madman among words...there is a spiritual urge to sing...to sing and be the song itself...it is like a sleep TD...a sleep lulled by pleasant thoughts from where I would like to awake never...

Answer 4

Why do you? To punt books and feel like a real author, no doubt. I see the block's back on, despite your assertion to the contrary.

As for personal, I merely answered your question, which in no way constitutes abuse. Calling me names like 'stupid', etc., DOES. And thus the limits of your intellect are betrayed by your own words.

You may feel you have learned what you WANTED to know, but you certainly haven't learned what you NEED to know. (Except in the case of being a janitor, perhaps. Oh, by the way, did anyone ever hand in that pen I asked about a while back?)

Go and do what you're best at...being a jannie. 'Bye, d**k. (No,I 'm not being rude, merely using the shortened version of your name. Apt though.)  

Answer 5

Feelings can be converted to words

Answer 6

Because I enjoy it. Why else?

The friendships and nice comments and brickbats are just the collateral damage...

Answer 7

I do it because a bunch of people said I should...and it makes ME smile! :-)

Answer 8

"Some of us drink because we're not poets." ~ Dudley Moore as Arthur

"Some of us write poetry because we can't always drink." ~ Rockman as me.

Answer 9

I like to write it because it's nice when people say things like "hey, I don't understand... or... are you medium height  ?

I'm like.. "so.. and uhh yeah".

Answer 10

'Cause I have all this STUFF I gotta get out!

Pure and simple.

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Answer 11

I do it because it allows me to communicate with other poets and adds richness to the mundane.

Answer 12

Personal permanent expressive communication beyond the verbal that is simply unexpressive in any other format.

AND,,, because it helps the woman ( just one ) of my life understand me quite a bit more clearly.

  

Answer 13

Poetry? Whatever, writing is an issue of survival now. I grew up believing in learning and now I believe in teaching. Myself more than others. So after 7 years it seems that perhaps I have something to say. On a day to day basis, I can no longer hold on to the forces that move my heart and soul, and writing, as dangerous as it is, is the safest way out for me.

Answer 14

it's a good form of expression and it clears my mind which alleviates preoccupation

Answer 15

I write it because I like to read it later, after I've forgotten what I wrote, so I can say "Hey! I like that!"