| User | _Dancing_Alone_ | | Topic | ANSWERSANSWERS! | | Message | Question: How come people here don’t like reading happy poetry or just happy writes in general?
i’ve been on here for some time now but still...it’s what i’ve noticed.
someone please explain this to me.
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| User | joeyalphabet | 2007-07-12 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | There seems to be an attitude that happy poetry is "Hallmark-y" and therefore is taken less seriously. What I’ve found is that’s true for a lot of it. There is some that’s good, but a lot of what’s posted here belongs on greeting cards. |
| User | rws | 2007-07-06 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | If the post is well written, it shouldn’t matter what the subject matter/ inspiration may be. |
| User | NoMartyr | 2007-06-03 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I’d say about 80% of my poems are happy, 15% are neither happy or sad, and the last 5 are sad and I get generally well reviews. |
| User | UnderINK | 2007-04-10 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I don’t like happy bouncey poems, though that doesn’t mean I don’t like subject matter that’s ’happy’. For instance, I don’t like poetry so much that is like BOUNCEYBUBBLESHAPPYFIELDSOFFLOWERSANDPRETTYSPARKLESYAY. I really tend to associate that with slutty internet people who put on a fake front for ’friends’ and attention, for some reason. . . Fake joy. But I do enjoy poems about happy things like butterflies or pretty skies or an optimistic walk around the park so long as the form is enjoyable and not forced.
I enjoy funny, sarcastic, witty poems that have a point to them and that are humorous and ’happy’, even if not outwardly bouncey.
I grow tired of depressing poetry. Eh. . . |
| User | Yasou | 2007-02-02 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I don’t much about the other writers on here but I know that I adore a happy poem or story from time to time. I think it could possibly be that people are genre specific, people who love horror usually tend to write horror and so on and so forth. I’ve caught myself in that mind set quite often so guilty as charged I’m afraid. It’s not really a specific genre that people are looking for, just something that ignites the passion buried deep within their souls. Of course, a plot does help and I am kidding so please don’t take offense. :) |
| User | Azuire | 2007-01-31 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | The sad general trend among young writers today is to be depressed. I think you should look up the older poets, their work is extremely postive and uplifting.
Perhaps sometimes because happy writes or happy poetry just seems so fake, we know what the world today has become, but even more so we should have happy things to say, to make our surroundings a little more positive, a little happier, heal the world, like Michael Jackson’s best song ever.
I personally don’t exactly write happy things, but I don’t write about extremely depressing things either. Hmm.
Cheers |
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