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Poetry thread

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I quite like writing poetry and so I thought I'd start a thread - please post your poems here. The first one I want to share is one I posted on another thread recently, about autistic people being typecast.

It's called "I don't wanna be typecast"

I don't wanna be typecast, I'm not a Tinpot

Unimportant, inferior or worthless, I'm not.

I'm not a savant, no genius IQ

But I'm not stupid, I can learn stuff too.

Don't think there is no emotion there

I have empathy, consideration and care

I don't wanna be typecast, no matter what we do

We're all individuals, I'm me and you're you

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  • Thank you for this thread. I looked at it for a while and wasn't going to bother. I spent the weekend reading some terminology, to understand why some lines work well:

    1. iambs,
    2. meter,
    3. couplets,
    4. Extra Syllable (Anapest/Substitution)
    5. Clipped Ending (Catalexis)
    6. Stress Shift (Trochaic Substitution

    I asked the AI to give me some exercises.

    I have written some more, it thinks 2 are good enough to try submitting to a competition. I may try and see what happens.

    I think I may have found my voice.

  • in reply to Stuart333

    Don't get hung up on the rules.  There are really no rules with poetry and spoken word, but there are plenty of people out there telling you there are, doing MAs, PhDs and whatever, some of whom are great but others of whom are basically gatekeeping.  Write, express, if it fits a meter use it if it doesn't don't worry.

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  • in reply to Stuart333

    Don't get hung up on the rules.  There are really no rules with poetry and spoken word, but there are plenty of people out there telling you there are, doing MAs, PhDs and whatever, some of whom are great but others of whom are basically gatekeeping.  Write, express, if it fits a meter use it if it doesn't don't worry.

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