What makes a good poem?!
Question: courage.
Answers: courage.
Jack Daniels
sex & booze
A good rhythm, It is hard to explain, but some poems just have it.
rhyme and reason
what??
oh, your serious Q startled me........... ;)
i guess it would be the ability to transport the reader to the world inside your words, to make them feel something.
A poet.
Inspiration and insanity
prison love life
One from the heart or from a mad man like Bulowski...ok he wasnt exactly mad just drunk but still damn good
A ordinary moment in time.
a poetic sense.
Lena Horne
gotta be short, sweet and rhyme....i dun care what anyone says...poetry should rhyme
free-form prose
there once was a lady from nantucket...........stuff like that
Rhythm and rhyme
sex, drugs and more sex...
oh you said poem....i thought you said "first date"
Someone else reading it and not telling me about it.
first, a nice story, then nices rhymes and nice rythm
and to me something short
I think everyone has pretty much summed it all up for you...I think i will add sorrow to the mix...are ya gonna write us all something??? oh please do!
Start it off with: "Long or short, thick or thin..."
it varies from person to person... i like a poem with strong imagery... and so far anything from this crazy dude who goes by D.P.M. seems to fall under that category...
A great mind.
makes you think and search your soul
words that paint a picture in our minds and move us..