When you were a teenager, did you write angst ridden poetry and think it was profoundly beautiful?

Question

I've just looked at the poems I wrote as a fifteen year old. Best laugh I've had in ages. A collection of teen angst poetry would be a great idea for a comedy book, don't you think?

Answer 1

I don't see why people are saying this is a cruel idea. I wrote plenty of melodramatic poetry at that age, and maybe I would have taken myself less seriously had I known that other people my age felt that way and that not all life is a great, tragic drama starring me.

Either that or if such a book would have come out I would have ignored it, as would the rest of my peers writing angst-filled bad verse, because it's what kids do at that age, and although they are extremely sensitive and dramatic, they also have a unique faculty for ignoring everything that doesn't fit their point of view. ;-)

The only cruel thing would be to find and print a teen's poetry without their permission, especially by way of mocking it. That, of course, would be unforgivable.

Maybe the best approach to this would be to publish the teen poetry of people who are already adults and have grown thicker skins, as a means of laughing at themselves and saying "See? And I turned out okay."

Answer 2

Yes!

Of course, now I write angst-ridden poetry that is profoundly beautiful! Ha ha

Your emotions are so highly charged when you're a teenager. Everything is so melodramatic! My happiness hinged on whether the guy I had a crush on smiled at me that day or not. "I don't exist unless you see me..." I think it's cute. I wish I could find more of my old poems. But I think they got chucked somewhere along the way...

Answer 3

yes most definately, i wrote one about an ant crawling in the garden and reaching the gate in the garden after a long journey, it was a metaphor for life, the blades of grass being the ups and downs and the garden gate being death and entering the next life (maybe the path outside im not sure, i left it open to the viewer lol). Funny thing is, I went to do a fine art degree thinking i could change the world, by the time i finished i had travelled and grew up realising i was just pretentious, now im stuck wqith a degree that i hate!!!!......thank god for advertising!

Answer 4

regularly while somebody is untrained and has had little practice at workout a ability, the product they convey is far less captivating than the flaws they convey later of their profession. Teenage Poets are patently much less experienced at writing Poetry than they are going to be while they are extra mature. purely as some track created by making use of a very small form of youngsters is superb some poetry created by making use of babies would be fairly sturdy. the final public of the paintings paintings of all varieties created by making use of babies is enjoyed via making use of their mum and dad and grand mum and dad. Poetry isn't an exception. the large poetry of the destiny will additionally be created by making use of people who wrote poorly in the beginning up and then better there skills.

Answer 5

Oh don't remind me. A group of us, (all sad and angst ridden teenagers), even went so far as to create a book of our badly written poetry and published it ourselves and tried to sell it in school. So sad. We didn't understand why no one else wanted to read our thoughtful and insightful poems. Couldn't they see how sad and angst ridden we were?

Answer 6

Actually, I *tried* to write angst-ridden poetry; but I was enough of a literature buff to realize that it was drivel: most of them languished half-complete until I cleaned out whatever folder I was working in, or half-way in got filed in that top-loading circular file (trash can) beside the desk.

Answer 7

No I have always disliked most poetry. I got into trouble in college for refusing to write a poem for a class.

Answer 8

I'e been writing songs since I was a little 'feller and have sold three to date I recently found an old note book and had a good laugh over it also. I wonder what happened to that bright eyed boy ... I know... he grew to be this grinning musician who craves the dawn. Good question friend.

Answer 9

wasn't there a country singer that read one of the poems she wrote when she was 15 or 16 and wrote a country music song based on her poem she wrote when her mom sent her to her room.... "theres no use crying over split perfume"...

yeah, actually, most of mine are pretty bad too. kind of an act for attention i suppose. theres one that that i'm whining in about being so short in, everytime i got in a car the seatbelt rubs against my neck and gives me a hickey, HAHA that was very funny.

Answer 10

I agree. The beauty of poetry is not the mood but how descriptive it is. I know years down the line it seems so petty, which is why we laugh, but at the time, it was very serious to us.