Why Do Poets Do It

Most original. We mostly murder classical poetry, here because we don’t know it, nor how beautifil it is Worse….we label forms incorrectly. Few here have the integrity to be accurate to form. Me, too….much easier to write free verse. Ee Cummings could. We can fool and tickle each other, sure. Writing words on paper is not poetry. It is WORDETRY. Wish I had the cajones to call myself a poet after five years, I don’t deserve that name, honestly…Pangie

FAVE, pure and simple! Thanks, John. (Though I admit I was expecting something a bit sexier. lol). ~ Not Why I Do IT!

Great thoughts, John:)

Perhaps I do it because i am a naughty person or more likely because I know no better!!! A poop poet I will always be:-) hugs jan xx

We write uneven syllables in Sonnets, too many in Haiku, and then pretend it was just the temporary glitch of a poet. We do it because we are driven to capture our thoughts. Yours resonate.