I bought Bob Schneider's "The Californian" in which he sings You're like a bullet / Stuck inside a dead bird / Sleeping on the forest floor. It's from the song "Game Plan", which is a sort of rocky methamphetamine ballad, but he hits up some weird poetry in rattling off shocking lines that pile a syllable on each time
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Okay so you're not a poet and that's a crappy poem, but honestly it isn't.
You're talking to a woman who's talent is in drawing and painting - and occasionally photography. I DREAM of writing good poems and out of hundreds have maybe two that make the cut. So far I teach myself and still haven't a clue if I'm doing it right or not.
Art is a personal craft, language is everybody's purview.leondacterOctober 18 2006, 01:37:09 UTC
I think the best way to become more adept at poetry is to ply different kinds of it. I mean, everyone has done haiku (at some point in their schooling), but try tanka, or write a genuine sonnet (some of Shakespeare's sonnets are not sonnets to the exact syllable, but read any of them and you'll get a great sense of the ear you have to develop). If you're teaching yourself, it's very comparable to me teaching myself screenwriting (which I've done and am doing): Everyone says, Read as many scripts as you can. Read as much poetry as you can
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I bought Bob Schneider's "The Californian" in which he sings You're like a bullet / Stuck inside a dead bird / Sleeping on the forest floor. It's from the song "Game Plan", which is a sort of rocky methamphetamine ballad, but he hits up some weird poetry in rattling off shocking lines that pile a syllable on each time ( ... )
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You're talking to a woman who's talent is in drawing and painting - and occasionally photography. I DREAM of writing good poems and out of hundreds have maybe two that make the cut. So far I teach myself and still haven't a clue if I'm doing it right or not.
I love everything you write. I really do.
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