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So called 'chick magnets' were the poets of the 19th century according to the london metro today, which I reckon doesn't apply to the modern day poet. It is a creative field, poetry, one that can encapture audiences if said in the right voice and tone and ofcourse poets are fluent in socialising, they are advanced really. Wiki defined poetry to be a written piece of prose that has the ability to attract a woman's attention, so I was wondering what your thoughts are?

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Hmm ... Pretty quite eh? Or ur ignoring me?

[JAMMEDTOAST]

I personally like poetry ^^ But some girls might find it cheesy or that a guy is trying too hard. You just have to be good with it for girls to like it haha. Like not having too many cliches, etc. Original stuff. Some probably just don't like it at all. It's verrrryyyy romantic when written well *-*

No one's ignoring you, you just post reeeallly early in the morning. Well at least where I'm at. (Oh, & I don't think you can double post ><)

[imhitomi]

I detest poetry...so much.
I do not care about the poet's feelings enough to spend all that time trying to figure out WTF they mean. The only poetry I like is free verse that's pretty straight forward. I could probably count the number of poems I've actually liked on one hand.
But yeah, writing poetry to get girls is not only not going to work, it's going to make you look like you're trying too hard. It's like the annoying guy who brings his guitar everywhere.

[rectitude*]

I only like some poetry, those that I can actually make an interpretation about. I'm one of those girls who think a guy writing a poem to me would be too cheesy though. sure, I guess it'll be sort of nice, but still, that's just me.

[Lie]

There are very few people who still understand poetry as a craft the way it was understood in the 19th century (in terms of it being a piece of almost mathematical material that is usually constructed in accordance with a formula, that formula being: it's often highly-referential, paying homage to one's poetic predecessors, it makes use of carefully-organized meter, it has a rhyme-scheme with a particular purpose, etc.), but I think contemporary poetry is still appreciated in the way it was then--by a small percentage of the population, outside of novelty poems between loved ones. For most people, good poetry means, "Is it pretty?" "Does it seem original?" "Does it make me think?" etc.

If I were going to write a poem for a girl at this point, I think she would have to be intelligent enough and well-versed enough to understand what goes into a sonnet, villainelle, etc. Or at least love me enough to try to pretend she was. I've written a few sort of cutesy 3 or 4 stanza poems (which I pump out in about 45 seconds at a clip) for girls who've asked me too, but I tend to write more prose than I do poetry. I refuse to write free verse poetry if I can help it. No offense to anyone who enjoys free verse (I like the occasional Bukowski or cummings poem), but 98% of free verse is painful to read.

[KOGEPANN;)]

Poetry is nice as long as the guy's good at it, an originality to it (:
although I do admit, I find most poems cheesy and v.cliche atm.

Shakespere's Sonnet 130 <3
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare

[꼬라지하군]

i really hate poetry....

[jihye87]

I like poems but that's cos I did literature for nearly 6 years for my GCEs.
satirical poetry are probably my fav. and a few of Shakespeare's sonnets too.
but i totally forgot abt the pentameter and rhythm stuff after graduation.
i'll probably pick a short story over poems any day now ..

[kandi]

I can't say i don't like it or like it since in my daily routines I'm not exposed to it. I don't actively go out to read it either.
So when you mentioned about poetry , it takes me a while to think about my stance on it. Pretty much I'm a fence-sitter on the topic.

[7:45am]

I love poetry! I would definitely be impressed if a guy wrote poetry, but not cheesy romantic ones. I love ones with many metaphors or vivid visualisation.

[shattered_teardrops]

I like poetry.
To be honest,a guy writing poetry would be... cheesy.
But if a guy would write poetry to me, I would have preferred it if
he has an apt command of the language he chose to use, should be
rhyming (a sonnet would be nice), should have originality and depth,
should not have grammatical mistakes or I would openly laugh out
loud at him. Pardon me, I'm no Miss Nice Girl.

I think guys who write poetry are very rare nowadays.