Why do you write poetry? (for all the poets that post in here)

[Tupacfan]

 

[thedesolateone]

i write poetry to break free from monotny and to travel the universe

 

[Low budget]

THAT FRESH PRODUCE FROM BEATAHOE - MILITARY STRATAGEM EP -http://mrbeatahoe.bandcamp.com/album/military-stratagem-instrumental-ep-produced-by-beatahoe

 

[TheCoach757]

i write because if i didnt id probably kill myself lol my words are the only things i own

 

[Amotekun]

I used to write and perform because I had something to say, and I wanted to mobilize people to action.

I became disillusioned with the who genre of politico lit when it dawned on me people are comfortable

just being entertained by words, they arent convicted to organize and move.

I still write in my head, havent put anything on paper or performed in about 5 years.

 

[HipHopisGlobalBitch]

=plcp

 

[Undergroundraplegend]

I like it becasue of Rap and becasue I like to write and etc other reason I have to go in depth but dont feel like it.

plus do we need the whole 300 post thing to make a thread here to.

 

[DOPEdweebz]

Therapeutic like Joe Budden once said.

 

[EastCoastDarkMan]

one of the mainest reasons is stress relief

 

[libertine]

i don't write poetry, i write stories and articles. I write because i would go crazy if I didn't.

so you want to be a writer?



by Charles Bukowski

if it doesn't come bursting out of you

in spite of everything,

don't do it.

unless it comes unasked out of your

heart and your mind and your mouth

and your gut,

don't do it.

if you have to sit for hours

staring at your computer screen

or hunched over your

typewriter

searching for words,

don't do it.

if you're doing it for money or

fame,

don't do it.

if you're doing it because you want

women in your bed,

don't do it.

if you have to sit there and

rewrite it again and again,

don't do it.

if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,

don't do it.

if you're trying to write like somebody

else,

forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of

you,

then wait patiently.

if it never does roar out of you,

do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife

or your girlfriend or your boyfriend

or your parents or to anybody at all,

you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,

don't be like so many thousands of

people who call themselves writers,

don't be dull and boring and

pretentious, don't be consumed with self-

love.

the libraries of the world have

yawned themselves to

sleep

over your kind.

don't add to that.

don't do it.

unless it comes out of

your soul like a rocket,

unless being still would

drive you to madness or

suicide or murder,

don't do it.

unless the sun inside you is

burning your gut,

don't do it.

when it is truly time,

and if you have been chosen,

it will do it by

itself and it will keep on doing it

until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

 

[LadyKnowThyself]

I write poetry to tell stories and for expression. A lot of my inspiration for my poems come from my own life experiences, or conversations I've had with others. BTW, I'm new here, but I hope that I can post some of my poetry on here soon, if that's okay.

 

[POEATREEMAN]

youtube.com/watch?v=IAmFzCwD55Q&list=UU6K_nSAXnP0ZweeYEsgiB1A&index=1&feature=plcp

 

[POEATREEMAN]

Weblog

Tuesday, 04 December 2012

THE RED DEATH

[THE RED DEATH]

DEATH IS SERVED

BY DOING NOTHING.

THE PLAGUE IS MAN

FOR HE GIVES

DEATH A HAND

HE WEARS HIS MASK

TO HIDE HIS FACE

THE RED DEATH

IS NOT THE RED LINE.

IT IS ALL OF HUMANITY

WHO CROSSED THE LINE.

DEATH SERVE’S

EACH TIME THERE IS WAR.

WE USE IT TO REDUCE

OUR COST.

BULLETS AND BOMBS

WIPE OUT THE NEST.

WHILE GAS

WIPES OUT ALL THE REST.

HOW CAN

HUMANITY EVER LAST ?

USE WISDOM

INSTEAD OF GAS.

BURY THE BULLETS.

GIVE LIFE A CHANCE

WE MAY YET LAST.

POEATREEMAN

IT IS MAN

WHO WEARS THE MASK.

WHAT LIES BEHIND IT

YOU ASK ?

UNCOVER

ALL WILL BE EXPOSED.

TRUTH WILL SHOW YOU

THE FACE YOU HOLD.

BLOOD WILL SHOW YOU

THE DEATH TOLL.

DEATH HAS

A WELCOME HAND

ONLY A FOOL

WOULD TAKE HIS LINE.

EVEN MORE SO

TO WALK HIS LINE.

EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO

12/4/2012

COPYRIGHT@2012

 

[POEATREEMAN]

 

[POEATREEMAN]

Wednesday, 05 December 2012

WHO IS BLACK IN AMERICA ?

[THE SHADOW]

EVERYONE

WHO CAST A SHADOW.

FOR IT IS OUR SOUL

THAT TRULY

SHOWS OUR SKIN.

WE ALL

HAVE A DARK SIDE.

UNTIL WE

LET THE LIGHT ON IN.

TRUTH CAST NO SHADOWS

FOR IT REFLECTS

WHAT IS WITHIN.

POEATREEMAN

ONLY GOD REALLY KNOWS

THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN

EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO

12/5/2012

COPYRIGHT@2012

 

[POEATREEMAN]

 

[onegod]

Eye write because it's my duty...

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[AllstarKing]

i write poetry coz rap music is wack nowdays.

 

[RanchWheatThin]

Ive never posted on here before, but ive been reading the IC for a bit. I started having rap style rhymes pop into my head about 6 years ago. Then i started thinking in rhymes inside my head more than i was even comforable with! Often they would provide comic relief for me, or even answers to problems. It was like they were coming to me, rather than from me. When i hit hard times they helped me see my situation in a better way. I havent had that headspace for a few years now and i really miss it.

 

[luke1733]

Therapy is the number one reason. 2nd is It's stuff that comes out that can make people enjoy it and it can't be said a different way or else noone would want to hear it, so it's a language. Entertainment. 3rd Way to express a piece of me that exists but I don't get the chance to express in other modes of communication. It's also kind of like a diary of my thoughts and a way to enter a different world in my perspective