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" fan on, fan on stupids. You fan but the fire that consumes you"

of writing poetry.

.... is tired of ppl putting random words in grammatical order and calling it a poem. we can't all be plath or cummings, you know.

i gt that from a fren's facebook status when i was in the library doing my assignment just now. all the way back home, i kept thinking of that. is that true or it is jus sum1's opinion?

i do agree to a certain extent, where not everyone can write poetry and if u think u r a poet just because u think that it is grammatically correct and it is shorter than a paragraph of essay, then, u r wrong. it takes more than that to write poetry. u need to master the language and its beauty. different choices in words and expression. which will give u an extra meaning to ur work and of course , the beauty of the language.

however, poetry is subjective. it can be in the form of anything that u want. u r the writer n u write what u wana write and how u wana write it. its ur interpretation towards whatever u r writing. n mostly people poetry to let out the emotions within them. and its like u r writing a story about something, or maybe thoughts. we cant judge them because poetry is art. art is again, subjective. like what people think beauty is, beauty is on the eyes of the beholder. that same goes with poetry.

even when u wana read poetry, its totally not like reading comics, or even stories. its different.

'when ink on a page becomes true passion'
brisbane writers festival.
9-13 sept 2009

i am a stranger.

i am a stranger in this world.

i am a poet.
i write in verse life's prose, and in prose life's verse.
thus i am a stranger, and will remain a stranger.
until death snatches me away and carries me to my homeland.