• @[email protected]
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      211 month ago

      Prose can be poetry too. I don’t get why people should always want to criticize poetry, or art, for not being “proper”. Poetry is there to reach inside the heart and to make you feel something. Nothing less, nothing more.

      • @Valmond
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        It sure makes me feel something. I doubt the author wanted me to feel that way lol.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Isn’t this just prose formatted in a weird way?

      When you get down to it, isn’t that all poetry really is? But really, I think this would technically fall under ‘free verse’ (poetry with no rules).

    • @Valmond
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      That formatting is the worst, cudos to the enormous blanks too, wtf.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        Poetry is both the sound and the silence. Without the silence and the breaks, there can’t be any poetry.

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          Sure, but this is not poetry spaces, it’s just badly cut up text IMO.

          You think it is done intentionally? Like some post modernist style?

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            Some phrases remained intact, while some were abruptly cut off.

            • @Valmond
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              -51 month ago

              Thank you captain obvious.

              • ddh
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                So the sentence structure reflects the lives of the poem’s subjects, some endure but others are cut short. Is it that obvious?

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                  Yeah, it’s very edgy. What a masterpiece. /s

                  Live Laugh Love Level.