English poetry is terrible by definition.

[Sovereign]

I'm sorry, but it's true. English is a harsh, non-poetic language, and it's not cut out for metaphors, gentle rhyming, or any of that shit - even in the hands of a master poet. Ancient Arabic poetry sounds better than anything in English, even though (or maybe because) you probably can't understand it.

English is a language suited to aggression, wordplays, expansive vocabularies - i.e. technical rap battling, and - to some degree - topicals. People who write poetry in English should quit and learn another language.

[Fart]

Look, guys, a fucking moron.

Contradictions out of ten from me. Bravo

[EtH]

I find the Arabic language is very backwards.

[Sovereign]

I find the Arabic language is very backwards.

They do have a different word order than English, but their poetry is actually pretty beautiful. This is mainly due to the lack of ridiculous consonant clusters. Native English speakers tend to be unaware of just how many absurd clusters we have in our language.

[Diode]

I find the Arabic language is very backwards.

take this lol

[Diode]

ridiculous consonant clusters

boy, you must love slavic poetry then.

[Chill Phil]

I was more impressed with Japanese poetry.

[Diode]

I was more impressed with Japanese poetry.

you read kanji?

[Witty]

This is a dumb thread.

[Chill Phil]

This is a dumb thread.

indeed. definitely an outdated troll technique. i think lars posted a template a couple years ago. the template was based on a "know it all," that spoke lowly of people's creativity and intelligence levels over a few paragraphs. littered within the paragraphs were misspellings of commonly misspelled words. like their, they're and there types of words.


given that formula, you get this thread. go to an english speaking board of poets and rappers, and tell them poetry in the english language is trash.


it's super stupid, and would only work on a board with older people. even better if they're older and religious.

[Mr. J]

what an odd little man..

[Destroyer]

dumb as fuck
I'd attribute about 5% of a poem's value to it's melody or actual sound
95% to the meaning a reader can pull out of it

[Inno]

I would say join the poetry league but fuck you

[uh-oh]

HEY GUYS POEMS ARE GAY THO

[YDK]

Is this him begging us to have him post some Arabic poems?
Cuz I won't

I can't tell the difference between a beautiful poem from some Arabic poet and a terroristic letter written by isis

All looks the same to me

[EtH]

I can't usually tell an English poem from a suicide note, but then I stop reading YDK's topicals.





Poetical shots fired bitch!

[YDK]

No shots fired, its true

They're all suicide notes because iI died years ago an never got to write on

I'm a ghost in the online rap battling system

I jjust want a good suicide note before I pass on

[EtH]

You'll be alive for a long ass time then.


BOOOM GHOST SHOTS FIRED!

[YDK]

Only if I'm counting on you to comprehend it

Boom turn you too a ghost with me hoe