A month without alcohol

On Poetry, would be poets especially take note

July 27, 2007 · 3 Comments

Frequent viewers of this site may notice have noticed that I’m inclined to the odd rhyme. Its rarely very serious and never any good. Naturally, not many people read my verses which is perfectly fine by me because I know the ones I think are funny and fuck everyone else, literary democracy etc.
Now, I have only just this afternoon worked out how the whole ‘tags’ system works and so I have only just this afternoon added poetry as a tag for this site-big mistake! All of a sudden my tag surfer is full of Haikus and impressionistic attempts at making puddles seem deep.
Its not that I’m giving out to people for writing poems. Its just that everybody wants to write poems but very few people want to read them because the overwhelming vast majority of them are woeful in the extreme.
I mean c’mon people, I know its a blog but lets excercise at least some quality control. I suppose I should have known better, anyone who uses the plain boring tag of ‘poetry’ clearly suffers from ‘creative imparement’.
No, I must say, I’m glad I used the tag ‘poetic injustices’ for all this time-at least I was different! I know it completely flouts the whole tag system which relies on people using the same words but I don’t care-if you were any good you’d have been published by now.
I will end with a few ideas for you less creative folk who all of a sudden want to change the tag poetry, and to prove to those of you who are even less creative that there are other options.

1. Fine Rhymes
2. Eloquently phrased and classically versed writings
3 Words’n’stuff that like, rhyme’n’shit
4. Living Poet(s)
5. Emotive verses
6. The agonising clarity of the inner eye
7. Sixteen year old girl who wants to be taken seriously
8. Sylllabic Assasination(sounds like an Art Rock band, misspelt for that edgy effect)
9. All the various derrivitives of the word poetry(poet, poetic, poem, poo)
10. Prose(if you want to be ironic)
11. Yeats(if you want to be iconic)

The list could go on all day. Incidently, I don’t actually like Yeats-he was a bit of a fairy. Also I’m aware that some of the above suggestions(ie all of the above suggestions) are completely impractical-if you wanna be practical stick to ‘poetry’. Of course poetry itself is completely impractical so………………….

Categories: Pet Hates · Poetic Injustices · poetry

3 responses so far ↓

  • Designator! // July 31, 2007 at 2:24 am

    Hey a rhyme here or there never hurt anyone…. keep it juicy i say

    oh yea i set up my blog and filled in the gaps with my myspace blog …

    cant remember the address….. its on blogger.com tho

  • conortje // July 31, 2007 at 8:25 am

    Haven’t quite come to terms with tagging myself yet. Not sure why I use any but I’ve come up with lots of odd ones that have no use from ’sanitary towels’ to ‘Irish skin’. Maybe some day all will be revealed.

  • Rua MacTírean // August 1, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    Designated Diamond Decepticon Dave: I don’t have a problem with rhymes, just the amount of shit rhymes that clog up your tag surfer when you add poetry as a tag-lots of offence intended for anyone who chooses to take it!

    Conortje: I dunno, in theory tags are really really practical………………….sorry, I have no argument whatsoever. I just don’t like them!

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