#outdated - Hello Poetry

Haiku ? What you want ISN’T POETRY Nor, is what you are making . Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted by the rest of us. What I want is not poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed ! (Don’t expect us to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t candy coat my sledgehammer for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. ) It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither is a form that hinders it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick **** shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed garbage. No real expression had syllable count as its impetus ! Yor lame brevity without weight is really just laziness and incompetence . What should have been a paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet sandwich.” Most real writers can and do enjoy words and or at least a complete thought with actual depth.. We don't write epic poetry in dactylic hexameter anymore. We don't compose courtly love sonnets to unattainable noblewomen. Some forms had their time, served their purpose in a specific cultural moment, and then ended. That's not a tragedy that's just how art evolves. But haiku won't die because it's lazy and easy and fools every IDIOT into thinking they are an actual poet.. Read Plath, or Bukowski or Nabokov or anyone that actually has something to say. You may find that it's actually more satisfying than reading "frog farts in the wind." Why do you Want to mimic Basho, any way ? Are you a scared feckless samurai boy toy trapped in a ***** house that serves tea ? Are you socially stunted and rambling through a whispering ********** zen garden ? Are you being forced to pretend enjoyment in polite torture or can you not tell poetry from sudoku? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn **** crybaby daddy issues art act, much ? It's not deep and it's really not relevant. It's a cheap, lazy path of least resistance for people who want to pretend to be artistic or deep don't wanna do the actual work. If it doesn't deserve at least a paragraph, it shouldn't deserve your time or attention.

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Sep 25, 2025

Sep 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM UTC

OldeMrHoover

Haiku and syllable counting

Haiku ? What you want ISN’T POETRY Nor, is what you are making . Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted by the rest of us. What I want is not poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed ! (Don’t expect us to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t candy coat my sledgehammer for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. ) It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither is a form that hinders it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick **** shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed garbage. No real expression had syllable count as its impetus ! Yor lame brevity without weight is really just laziness and incompetence . What should have been a paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet sandwich.” Most real writers can and do enjoy words and or at least a complete thought with actual depth.. We don't write epic poetry in dactylic hexameter anymore. We don't compose courtly love sonnets to unattainable noblewomen. Some forms had their time, served their purpose in a specific cultural moment, and then ended. That's not a tragedy that's just how art evolves. But haiku won't die because it's lazy and easy and fools every IDIOT into thinking they are an actual poet.. Read Plath, or Bukowski or Nabokov or anyone that actually has something to say. You may find that it's actually more satisfying than reading "frog farts in the wind." Why do you Want to mimic Basho, any way ? Are you a scared feckless samurai boy toy trapped in a ***** house that serves tea ? Are you socially stunted and rambling through a whispering ********** zen garden ? Are you being forced to pretend enjoyment in polite torture or can you not tell poetry from sudoku? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn **** crybaby daddy issues art act, much ? It's not deep and it's really not relevant. It's a cheap, lazy path of least resistance for people who want to pretend to be artistic or deep don't wanna do the actual work. If it doesn't deserve at least a paragraph, it shouldn't deserve your time or attention.

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I said this year’s Oscars slapped you said nobody says that so I said it’s all copacetic I’m a product of my time’s word aesthetic so I’m deadass proud that I said it without regard to whether it’s respected.

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Apr 20, 2022

Apr 20, 2022 at 6:58 AM UTC

andrew-rueter

Outdated Lingo

I said this year’s Oscars slapped you said nobody says that so I said it’s all copacetic I’m a product of my time’s word aesthetic so I’m deadass proud that I said it without regard to whether it’s respected.

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The hill is alive Marching soldier Plugged into the hive Follows the scent trail of the world before him Winter is closing in Food stores and Disney Plus Take turns as kingpin It's all about what's current And holds a charge Technological holdouts Form an orderly line to the graveyard The rest do their very best To keep up with progress

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Aug 8, 2020

Aug 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM UTC

Carlo-C-Gomez

Electric Ant

The hill is alive Marching soldier Plugged into the hive Follows the scent trail of the world before him Winter is closing in Food stores and Disney Plus Take turns as kingpin It's all about what's current And holds a charge Technological holdouts Form an orderly line to the graveyard The rest do their very best To keep up with progress

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So I was taking lil Tyler to school and I got to meet one of his friends! Tyler was so excited to introduce me to him, but that poor little babe! He was in a wheelchair! Bless my son's heart for looking past this kid's... um.... Well you know it takes a special kid to have a crippled friend! Wait I mean Not special! My son is not special No, wait, I mean he ain't SPECIAL special You know? Anyways, so I met his friend and I'm not quite sure what to do here I say HELLO I AM TYLER'S MAMA and this little kid looks me dead in the eyes and told me "Hello ma'am, there's no need to yell" I was in awe He didn't sound handicapped at all! I mean I didn't know if he would be able to understand me But he did! Who would have thought a wheelchaired kid could speak and think just like any other kid who wasn't gimpy! I am just so so proud of my son for looking past this poor victim of um... deformities... Cuz you know it's probably good for the disabled to have a regular normal friend like my son! Hopefully my son can make that kid happy you know since people like that usually have such sad lives. Golly I am just so proud of my son for taking pity on that kid! I am such a good mother!

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Jan 17, 2020

Jan 17, 2020 at 11:15 AM UTC

disabledpoetman

My son has a crippled friend!

So I was taking lil Tyler to school and I got to meet one of his friends! Tyler was so excited to introduce me to him, but that poor little babe! He was in a wheelchair! Bless my son's heart for looking past this kid's... um.... Well you know it takes a special kid to have a crippled friend! Wait I mean Not special! My son is not special No, wait, I mean he ain't SPECIAL special You know? Anyways, so I met his friend and I'm not quite sure what to do here I say HELLO I AM TYLER'S MAMA and this little kid looks me dead in the eyes and told me "Hello ma'am, there's no need to yell" I was in awe He didn't sound handicapped at all! I mean I didn't know if he would be able to understand me But he did! Who would have thought a wheelchaired kid could speak and think just like any other kid who wasn't gimpy! I am just so so proud of my son for looking past this poor victim of um... deformities... Cuz you know it's probably good for the disabled to have a regular normal friend like my son! Hopefully my son can make that kid happy you know since people like that usually have such sad lives. Golly I am just so proud of my son for taking pity on that kid! I am such a good mother!

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Were suffocating ourselves with our own plastic bag of denial. Let us recycle our outdated baggage and carry it another way.

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May 25, 2019

May 25, 2019 at 1:28 PM UTC

poetic-t

Recycle Ourselves

Were suffocating ourselves with our own plastic bag of denial. Let us recycle our outdated baggage and carry it another way.

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