Is Poerty Dead?

i don't like to think that poetry is dead.

Use the Improv thread! Please!

i see that this post was many months ago but if youre still looking to share and read poetry id be up for it ^_^

i see that this post was many months ago but if youre still looking to share and read poetry id be up for it ^_^

poetry will never die. shhh dont speak such evil into existence

It depends what kind of poetry. 

I like to write pomes but nothing has came to my mined to write anything as of this year and last year.

poetry will never die.

I don’t think poetry is dead

I hope not:(

poetry will never die, for it is immortal. the special technique in which the order of the words convey emotion can’t be replaced or duplicated.

I've noticed books like Milk and honey or pillow thoughts are getting quite a lot of recognision

i wouldn't say it's dead or I at least hope it isn't !! >.< 

(( also love the prompt idea sounds super fun ))

Poetry will never truly die. Wherever there is an aching heart, there will be a pen inking a page. A lot of my poetry was written to help me deal with intense emotions, but after a while I suppose I dried the well. 

I've wanted to get back into poetry for a while, but I often don't have much inner resource to write from. The best poems are written from the heart, no matter if that heart is beating strong or breaking. 

I don't think poetry is dead, because I used to despise and avoid poetry even though I'm an aspiring writer, but now I'm getting into it and even starting to write my own poems. So hi, I'm new to poetry and very interested in it (≡^∇^≡) 

Poetry will never die <3

when i was m 15, i found out my gf had cheated on me, so i went to my girl friends house after she, f 16, had lost her dad. It was a few days after the funeral and the mum was apparently was ready signing up to dating apps which was good news to me because she was a MILF, and i really wanted to hit. She was grieving, but apparently desperate to move on, so i was gonna help her do that. So i went upstairs to my gf's room and smashed her, (she had big tits just a btw.) and then, afetr that, i told her i was hungery so i went downstairs, and saw her mum bent over the table cleaning. anyway lontg story short, me and her mum got down, and then during it the mum starting crying and saying that she missed her husband, ew. he was uggo anyway? anyway after, i went into the living room, and jacked off into the dads urn, and then left. 

really helped me get over the grief of her cheating on me. 

i've read some comments and i found out this forum is quite old, but if you're still looking for some answers to your question, for me poetry will never die because it got its impact even today 'cause it represents people's life and emotions, also a determinated historical time. regardless of this, we can also see poetry almost everyday, for example in music if we think about sogs: are just rhytmed poetries, or into ad spots where sometimes slogans are created based on rhetorical figures.

(sorry for eventual mistakes but english is not my first language)

I dont really think its dead, just not that common.

In my opinion poetry is beautiful, u can show ur feelings with it! I started to like it because of my school, it was a topic in our subjects lol

Poetry seems like the most common form of writing imo

I especially think of poetry as romantic and that kinda died down with modern romance, but there are still people who like the old romantic stuff like me. You just have to find people that have the same interest( ◠‿◠ )

I could be vague and say, "What counts as Poetry is subjective."

However, I think I have more to say on this.

Basically....

Poetry seems dead nowadays because the "Writing Scene" so to speak, has been overflooded with very-bland-commericalized-feeling poetry. Cheesy quotes you'd in ancient interests posts that some would say "were SO 2016". Think, r/iamfourteenandthisisdeep type stuff.

I think new life could be breathed into poetry if a few authors, who were not just in it for the money, were able to get published. 

i dont think it is at all you just need to look in the right places 

I think nothing ever truly dies, maybe in some places it is dead.

yet that's the beauty of life, there's always a new place to discover, new people to meet.

cycles and progress you know? for me poetry is a part of who i am, so until i die its alive within me.

Está pregunta es muy antigua pero valió la pena leer las respuestas. Creo que el temor de que algo desaparezca o muera es inevitable, pero las respuestas me han tranquilizado y demostrado que los poetas o quienes aman la poesia, siempre mantendran viva su esencia.

a cada ditado desaforo ou frase dita ja pode se disser que certa formar pode ser parte de uma poesia, acho qe uma coisa tao bonita nao seja capaz de morrer mas certamente ser esquecida

  Some years late, but anyway. I do understand that you are talking about poetry as a form of literature, but I find it comforting to think of "ways of expressing love" as poetry. Watch animals do their things for ten seconds and then going on with your day is poetry. Saying "hi" to that one person that you know nothing about, but still is in your commune to work or school or university is poetry. 

  The way we see poetry as poems may be less than what it used to. However, while there's love, there's poetry. While there's suffering, there's poetry. While there's life, there's poetry.

no creo que la poesia esta muriendo, siento mas bien que la estan dejando de lado aunque sigue habiendo escritos hermosos sobre diferentes cosas y temas 

Poetry is not a thing that dies ... The conception that this kind of things can end is surely sad, like "the end of hisory" and all that lmao.

Sure, one could argue "the dead of poetry" as some kind of downgrade, but as if people didn't write bad poetry since the beggining. As lord Henry says (obviating the traits one could tag that god's forsaken man -- still a gentleman of sorts):

 «The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists simply exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.»

Edit: that couple you wrote 3 years ago, dispite being so naff or tacky (don't know what I really mean in english, not my first lenguage), hides your own kind of sensibility towards whatever made you write that. Hope the years lead you to better verse, not like my case.

i dont think poetry is dead, to me honestly its dormant, I love writing poetry or just writing in general, and I don't rly plan it, its just like a waterfall that starts flowing so I pull out my journal and start yapping, I would love to discus poetry w/ someone omg

poetry is most certainly alive ! 

while I agree with the idea that it is 'dying' as a genre of general popular literature (both due to the rise of more 'long-form' methods of prose storytelling; thinking of those 'court of blood & swords'-type series, & because it as an art is being disrespected by the likes of social media influencers who publish their shower thoughts), it retains an eternal intrinsic value because people will never stop telling stories & looking for beautiful ways to do so. (it is also worth nothing that the rhythm of poetry makes them much more practical for memorisation in times of hardship than typical prose; I say this in reference, for example, to the christians in north korea, who each memorise parts of the bible- because there's no way for them to keep it alive but in their minds.) I wouldn't be surprised if, within 7-ish years, public preferences for storytelling shifted once more, & we saw a resurgance in the sorts of thoughtful, high-quality poetry we now consider to be 'classics'. there are also many wonderful modern poets! perhaps they'll help drive that sort of change. the best way we can keep it alive & loved in our collective memories is to have these sorts of discussions about it- so thank you for posting about this topic in the first place! 

poetry died at the hands of the people there are these days

do you mean poetry? it isn't dead. poetry isn't something that's always man made. poetry is in everything.

I hope not. But on my take, I think it's alive and breathing but not widely acknowledged by many as it was back then. :)

No! It will never die as long as language is spoken!

nah poetry isnt dead, theres just less writers especially in the 20th century making poetry and more people trying to sell shitty "poetry books" when its actually garbage and it's something so bad that it doesn't even qualify as poetry and that gives people a negative sight of poetry. but poetry is still alive, just less people do it now.

Nothing is alive.

I luv poetry, and like to think at least some people still respect and follow how old poetry used to have true meaning, so I would rather say in hope that its not dead.