/aes/ - Aesthetics

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I've never made poetry my art of choice, but I do have a knack for it.
When I was, maybe, 9, my school teacher tasked the class to write a poem and make a short picture book of it. I had an arrogant streak and decided it was too easy to just rhyme '-at' like most children books ('the cat lies flat on the mat where the fat rat sat') so I ended up trying '-itter'.
So that was the peak of my poetry career, unless someone really liked my zine contributions.

OP, were you around six or so years ago when there was an /eris/ poetry jam thread?

>Be warned! What you read in this thread cannot be unread!
Years of browsing imageboards has taught me how to unsee things, and after years of reading 'news' articles I'm sure I can now unread just fine, thank you very much!

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>What pieces do you like? Do you have a favorite poet?
I suppose my favourite pieces are those when I don't expect them.
Have you ever read a joke book? It's contrived. That's sometimes enough to take the spark out of it, and that's basically how poetry was supplied to me in school; contextless. As if this fucker actually just woke up and decided to write about Zeus (swan) raping a chick. Academically,, I stand with the rant in the pic in >>1127 .

I recently started (and finished) reading Lackadaisy and one of the central characters and therefore the author is a wordsmith. Their regular conversations are often sprinkled with alliteration and assonance, one could blink and miss it. A touch of spice, not a chilli to eat alone. Only a couple of times do they shamelessly break into a full "poetry-pile" and the second (attached) is far more appealing to me, not just for it's presentation but due to it's context: a segue the page after an assassin told their colleagues to dump a couple of corpses in a river.

I'm also partial to a few (few) rappers. I maintain so many popular rap tracks are better without their lyrics, but standouts like MF DOOM's wordplay make the genre worth shouting out. But really, all songs which realise they don't have to end every line with a rhyme may be worth my time. When you can tell someone is so desperate, so obliged to rhyme, it tends to detract from the lyrical strength. Contrived.
No, worse, industrial.

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>>1127
I bet your teacher probably had a fun time reading the pieces by you and your classmates. 
I wish I could remember those old pieces I shat out as a kid. To this day I'm trying to recreate (because I lost the original) a childish parody I made of Up on the Housetop, but Santa Claus is armed and pissed and evil.

>were you around six or so years ago when there was an /eris/ poetry jam thread?
I was not. I know only the rumor of it. I only found /eris/ comparatively recently. I was surprised to find the lack of a poetry thread, figured the board probably could use one. 
I came to find new authors, but wouldn't mind seeing a lil Jam go on. I certainly have a few pieces to add

>>1128
I never read Lackadaisy, but I'll make an effort to do so, after reading that piece.

I think contextless academia makes poetry boring and dry, albeit it may help if a piece flies over the head. I remember hating poetry as a child, it never made sense to me. My mind could only comprehend animation as expression. I cannot recall when this changed. For me, making poetry these is my way to make something creative. 
Rap on the other hand has constantly turned my head with a few profound lyrics I've heard. I don't resonate much with it, therefore I'm not much a rap fan, but I respect beauty and quality and expression. A friend of mine is a big fan of MF DOOM. He's an artist I enjoy, albeit none of his pieces are on my playlist.

>As if this fucker actually just woke up and decided to write about...
I've always enjoyed that perspective, spontaneity is the spice life needs.  Creating the things you wanna see and so forth. But sometimes a message is important too, I guess.


Here's my contribute to any potential Jam:


With a Golden Apple clutched in his hand,  
Paris was called to judge Beauty’s cruel gate. 
The three blessed Goddesses, each grandly planned
Their gifts as bribes entwined with Lust and Fate.
To choose the Fairest is to tempt and dare, 
Because Passion’s kiss can lead one to Strife;
Yet in that fatal moment, bold and rare, 
He had grasped at a fleeting Taste of Life.
Though Death will follow after Pleasure’s song,
It is in ecstasy where we find breath;
Yet Love’s star-crossed embrace can feel so strong,
That we will madly chase it—Life or Death.
So let us sing high of Paris’ plight,
His young Heart ignited by Desire;
For in choosing his Love beneath the Night,
He danced happy upon a funeral pyre.

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>>1129
>I was not. I know only the rumor of it. I only found /eris/ comparatively recently
I'll also assume you hadn't see the zine from a few years ago, attached. Most of them were compiled into Page 3.

>I've always enjoyed that perspective, spontaneity is the spice life needs.  Creating the things you wanna see and so forth.
Despite by Erisian duty to argue, I cannot refute this.

I have no idea what poetry is or how it works.

>>1131
Poetry is masking the fnords with fancy grammar

And there are no rules

>OP Gregpost
It's definitely congruent with the philosophy they helped found. Existential angst is a common universal theme, like the love song, yet I'm always relieved when it resists the tired power of edge, nor pathetic surrender, but instead showing sober modesty.

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>>1131
If you don't know what poetry is, how did you just write one?

I was here but now I'm not
I have gone to smoke some pot
I left this poem to prove a point
Life ain't shit without a joint