I LIKE WRITING POETRY.MY PARTNER SAYS IM NO GOOD AND STOP WRITING...?

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Day to day,
morning till night.
I did the same today
as I did yesterday.

Wanting changes,
I set myself goals
hoping to see a difference.

Whether good or bad,
doesnt matter,
for just a daily change
is all im after.
 
Whatever it takes to "float your boat" then do it. Who cares about what other people think as long as you are not financially dependent on your writings.
 
Writing poetry is something you do for yourself. If you enjoy it, why let anyone tell you to stop? Maybe it sucks, but so what?

My mother wrote very bad poetry all her life. It was embarrassing. She would send me poems and ask for my feedback, and it was so hard not to hurt her feelings. Now she's dead, and I treasure all those bad poems.

I kinda like your poem, btw.
 
A partner who doesn't support any and all of your creative endeavours needs to keep their thoughts to themselves. I think it's terrible that they would tell you that you're no good. That's what people who hate you tell you - not people who love you.

That being said....

I liked your poem quite a bit. While I was reading it I had the notion that it might make a great song of some sort. If you don't sing, why don't you approach a local band you like and offer to collaborate with them in writing their next set?

Best of luck :) :) :)
 
I think it would do better as song lyrics because poems are usually suppose to use metaphors to hide the meaning. You would be great at writing song lyrics, and it isn't a bad poem, but a "proffesional" poet would not like it because it is not original in thier eyes because it uses no original metaphors.

However, like I said, if you like music and making music, you would write good lyrics.
 
Yeah, it's something you're just supposed to enjoy if you're doing it as a hobby. Don't worry what anyone thinks, then.

I mean, do you want to be considered "good" among your peers? If that's your goal, then you should keep practicing and start reading contemporary poetry books and journals (written within the last 20 years). People who want to improve their work (it's called "work" for a reason) should know what's considered "good" by today's standards, and should also have an interest in what everyone else is doing. Look at it this way - engineers read trade journals to keep up to date, musicians study and listen to music, novelists read and study novels - poets should be reading and studying poetry. Here's a little poem by Thomas Lux to get you started. Luck!

A Little Tooth

Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It's all

over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,

your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing. You did, you loved, your feet
are sore. It's dusk. Your daughter's tall.
 
A partner who doesn't support any and all of your creative endeavours needs to keep their thoughts to themselves. I think it's terrible that they would tell you that you're no good. That's what people who hate you tell you - not people who love you.

That being said....

I liked your poem quite a bit. While I was reading it I had the notion that it might make a great song of some sort. If you don't sing, why don't you approach a local band you like and offer to collaborate with them in writing their next set?

Best of luck :) :) :)
 
Yeah, it's something you're just supposed to enjoy if you're doing it as a hobby. Don't worry what anyone thinks, then.

I mean, do you want to be considered "good" among your peers? If that's your goal, then you should keep practicing and start reading contemporary poetry books and journals (written within the last 20 years). People who want to improve their work (it's called "work" for a reason) should know what's considered "good" by today's standards, and should also have an interest in what everyone else is doing. Look at it this way - engineers read trade journals to keep up to date, musicians study and listen to music, novelists read and study novels - poets should be reading and studying poetry. Here's a little poem by Thomas Lux to get you started. Luck!

A Little Tooth

Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It's all

over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,

your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing. You did, you loved, your feet
are sore. It's dusk. Your daughter's tall.
 
A partner who doesn't support any and all of your creative endeavours needs to keep their thoughts to themselves. I think it's terrible that they would tell you that you're no good. That's what people who hate you tell you - not people who love you.

That being said....

I liked your poem quite a bit. While I was reading it I had the notion that it might make a great song of some sort. If you don't sing, why don't you approach a local band you like and offer to collaborate with them in writing their next set?

Best of luck :) :) :)
 
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