"Poetry" (if you insist) of all types. Preferably lousy but mediocre and fair poems will also be tolerated. Is it luminous and beautiful? People will say "Well done" but secretly loathe you for being expressive.

This is an . . .

"Poetry" (if you insist) of all types. Preferably lousy but mediocre and fair poems will also be tolerated. Is it luminous and beautiful? People will say "Well done" but secretly loathe you for being expressive.

This is an excellent group for purveyors of rhyming couplets about their grandkids and paint-by-number syllable counter "haiku"writers. Do you sound like Doctor Suess but no one has the heart to tell you?

Do you consider yourself a poet but you don't read any poetry besides what dribbles down the drool slickened chins of your fellow forum poets? Are you without any real influences, but feel qualified to write because of your "passion for words" (hahahahaha) post it here.

If you are wholly without artistic merit, wear a beret, play bongos and smoke french cigarettes this is the place.

Do you use words like "thou, thee, shan't, canst, and o'er" in your poems? Perfect! Escapees from Victorian era mental wards are more than welcome.

Are you compelled to use verse to tell complete strangers how lonely and hurt you feel? Care to bare the wretched misery of your love life? Though I'm not a shrink and can't help you out any further than saying "this bites," thinly veiled threats of suicide in five line stanzas welcome.