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That's really strange. Definitely keep me posted.

[quote name='chibi-master']Maybe I'm just stupid or something, but a lot of poetry just strikes me as pretentious and angsty.[/quote] [font=Calibri]This is perhaps one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen you say. Like, the whole sentence. Anyhow. I'm not generally fond of poetry either, but my distaste stems from continually seeing person after person believing they can just toss deep-sounding words on a piece of paper, claim it means something personal to them, and [i]voila[/i] it's poetry. That's a crock of horse crap, and anyone with half a brain can see that there was no effort put into the supposed poem's creation. (Lo and behold, people with half a brain tend not to be stupid. Funny how that works.) Poetry is only interesting when the poet takes pride in their work. Writing a poem requires an intense familiarity and faculty with the language, a precise control over word placement, and the ability and desire to work within stringent boundaries, because it's through those boundaries that the poet's skill and talent can be observed. So what you want to do right now is look for some of the classical poets, since it'll be easier to find quality among them. Poe is a good one. "The Raven", "The Bells", and (to a lesser extent for me) "Annabel Lee" are excellent works of hisâ??and "The Bells" abandons the confines of strict meter so it can actually [i]sound like bells[/i]. Robert Frost is another; "Fire and Ice" remains one of my favorites to this day. And of course anything by Lewis Carroll is fantastic and great fun to play with. [center]- - - - - - -[/center] If it's not the stupidity of most modern poets that bothers you, and instead the concept of the meter, we can talk further. But basically, if you like music, you should like meter, because poetry is the basis for song.[/font]