1. The meter is tortured, the topic is banal, the rhyme is forced, but people are still cheering it and calling it awesome.
2. There is a preponderance of poems about fairies, unicorns and knights.
3. Reviews consist of only: "great job", "I really liked this" or "I don't get it".
4. There is a preponderance of poems about making love under trees beside a stream running through a golden field.
5. Love is always rhymed with above.
6. Much sighing and whispering going on in the poems.
7. People refer to a sonnet as free verse.
8. Site members are proud of their high rankings and fabricated titles.
9. People claim to be published poets because their work shows up in a poetry.com vanity publication.
10. There's not much good poetry to be found there.
4 comments:
Great job, I really liked this... I don't get it.
bwhahaha!!
i have a sneaky feeling that you are right
...but i live in hope that you arn't
...x mzggie
Maggie, throughout time there have always been those who have aspired to create. However, prior to the internet, there was no way for anyone to get broad exposure to their creations - good, bad or otherwise. So sites that allow for posting of poetry, art, photography, and such, have brought out all manner of competence levels. To me, the saddest thing is not that people like to create. Nothing wrong with that at all. It's that mediocrity is being highly praised with consistency and regularity. I say kudos to those who are trying to improve, and kudos to those who are already good at what they do. For those who think they are God's gift to the arts - and really aren't - boooooo. :-) Funny thing is, the folks who are good are usually not in the center of the high-fiving activity, ie they aren't popular. Kind of like high school, eh?
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