are there any males here who love poetry?

Question

Many people think that if you write you must have some emotional issues. I want to know if guys think its true.

if you write then write one for me
please

Answer 1

Love poetry....especially Poe, Robert Browning and Shakespeare.

Answer 2

I have emotional issues, or perhaps non-emotional issues. I thrive on this vague sense of power I have, but don't often feel "up" or on top of things. I feel as though I have to be a god before I have legitimate feelings.

However, I am a lover of poetry. Whether the poetry is a result of emotions (and perhaps not the skewed ones) or the emotions (skewed or not) are the product of the poetry is something I have had doubts about. I don't like to be fatalistic when it comes to creative activities.

I don't want to discourage you from writing. I believe it can have value. However, according to the poet Theodore Roethke, the life of a poet is to be avoided at all costs (funny how information like that could remain so obscure).

Of course, poets aren't always aware of the alternatives. I'm sure some of them are fairly awful. Or at least criminal. One of my worries is that time will slip by too fast, and I'll be left with nothing, no record to prove to myself that time was spent, and spent wisely.

I recognize that I have a little wisdom not to want to look like a fool to myself. Yet only a fool would need that kind of reinforcement. Mostly when I write poetry I'm trying to be playful in the only way I can (without being embarrassed or feeling that I made a terrible mistake).

People are partly defined by the questions they ask. So to me, someone who asks about poets, without being critical, must be a poet. Its hard to find poets sometimes. Let me know if you want to exchange e-mail. There's a link to my webpage on my profile.

My poetry page can be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/drypress/PoetryMain.html

I'm occassionally prone to nonsense, especially under pressure. I always expect my readers to be "gold diggers". Hee hee.

Here goes. Very little innuendo intended. And keep in mind that this sort of abstraction isn't often welcome even in poetic circles.
Being partly subconscious, I admit there may be elements that are revealing and yet unintentional.

AVENUE

Affronted by the shape of a passing bus
the umbilical of travelers
wanton with the falling petals
wandered nearer.

Yet the dry wall shivered with the skratching
the lonely shoe-in-shoe placed forward
over the concrete

Into the glass showers, the falling breaths
weaving into the shadows of a seperate thunder.

Answer 3

I'm a male and I love poetry. I think your question is a good one. The view that someone must have emotional issues, or as others here have suggested that male poets are gay, comes from a very naive and uneducated point of view. I would like to suggest that writers, especially some poets, are more emotionally in tune and aware as people. You have to be in order to write something that may be appreciated and understood by others.

What may cause emotional issues for some men is hiding and repressing their emotions fearing that others will view them as being homosexual and/or weak.

Answer 4

I'm a heterosexual and I love poetry. The guy above who said, "probably not straight ones" is likely a homophobe and hiding something. My personal favorites are Keats, Yeats and Poe.

Here's one of mine:

The Artists

a rifle crack adds crimson to grey woods
just a splash here and there
but color isn't his vehicle

his important works are sculptures
patiently chiselled by pain-filled tedium
in sheer granite slabs of time

living sculptures guarded as saplings
watered with the blood of deer and lamb
whittled and clipped by artists' care

despite tears, she eats at the same table
hot reds and cozy greys in her oils, borrowed,
born and nurtured from conflict's clearing

her fiery autumn warms more cherished work

Answer 5

I love poetry, both reading and writing it.
Here's one of my poems:
"Matchmaker Moon"

Hey diddle doot,
a fay and her flute,
played music to suit, the bright moon in the sky.

The moon looked down with a glow,
on the fairy below,
as an elf joined the fay and said, "Hello."

"I heard your sweet tune, "
said the elf showing his brass bassoon.
"May I join in your song to the wonderful moon?"

"Of course you may, " said the lovely fay,
with a smile that glowed bright as day.
"To the beautiful moon together we'll play."

And all through the night a sweet sound from two sweethearts did swoop and soar as their love for each other did grow more and more.

When it came time for the rise of the sun,
the moon gazed down, and smiled, as two became one.

For the elf asked the fair fay to become his wife
And she quickly replied, "I will be gladly be yours for the rest of my life."

Answer 6

I like poetry, and I have Manic-Depressive disorder, but I liked it when I was a kid, and I didn't have problems. I wrote more back then too. One poem won some contest I entered.

Answer 7

I do like , but I find it difficult to write poetry.
I haven't read poetry of famous writers, but I have read some in many places, incluiding here.

Answer 8

Yeah .. poetry, arts and crafts and quilt shows.
It's what really makes the world go around ...don't-cha think?

So .... you wanna go get a salad ...maybe see a nice chick flick and than come back to my place?

Answer 9

i enjoy poetry, i wrote my girlfriend, now my wife, some poetry she loved it.

Answer 10

probably not straight ones