Well, I may have just found my "Go To" starter list of poets on the Hub ;-)
I'd say mine can be cynical, scathing, dark, blunt, honest... and yet some (count 'em on just one hand!) are quite nice really. It just depends whether I can override the pull towards the shadows and the dark corners.
Sometimes I am not sure of the virtues engendered by being considered a dark poet. I seem to be catching a lot of those comments recently and I am only aware that my works of late have had a definitely serious note and tenor about them.
Dark poetry is a mainly product of a fractured self - having found a happy and fulfilling place in life I find it really hard to write introverted stuff about the bad experiences of life.
China, I am glad that you have found that capability. Being incapable of ditching ones' past isn't any fun.
I would say that this is the biggest problem in society generally, the piling up of one damage onto another until it is too hard to get out from under. Then damaged people run the media and religion reinforcing the idea that the general state of psychosis is the norm.
Interesting indeed when human tragedy statistically skews the norm but was there ever a norm anyhow or a concealment and ruse that has been unsealed and aired? For better or for worse we may not be any nicer now then when we thought ourself nicer then just more awake to our abnormality in normality.
That is the western issue of trying to return home which is impossible (the reason religion is attractive, by offering a mirage of 'home') . The way back - to less complex and damaged - is forward by following some personal path in the way of Buddhism and a few other enlightened ways.
Writing dark stuff is in some ways rollng around in the rotten guts of a damaged self.
Excellently stated. We can never go backwards.
I would probably be considered a dark poet/write. I personally would like to think of myself as 'phsycological' writer. I just joined this site and I only have one Hub called 'The Demon Writer'. Read it and you will understand me.
I think all poetry is dark, I remember my English teacher telling us that almost all poetry is about death in one way or the other . . .
I thought about your comment and tried to find what I thought was my happiest poem. I actually came up with several, too many to post as comment, and honestly couldn't see any deep death meaning behind them. Just proving that those who teach academia are often as clueless as any other.
Is this considered Dark?
Dust of My Dust
O dust of my dust,
child who died as soon as
you split the matrix,
dead with my dead fathers.
You never tasted breath though
you tried so hard in vain
with a wee heart that beat within
your mother's womb, but stopped
when you left us for perchance
a better place.
Ah, so the better, my child.
for you never traveled
the long way of drudgery
when wee finger blurs under the tears
that fall upon the first wound,
or when abandoned by a friend
for another, and illness, and
the smell of death by the bed;
the loss of a loved one;
or shame, or poverty;
the old friend sorrow as childhood ends;
the blind eye of nature that gives you
drink from the heady cup of love.
Lost child, death may be better than life.
Ralwus
Ralwas,
Depends on your point of view I guess on that one... there are some people who don't want to hear that message even though it was so elegant and poignant... I wrote one about a fetus once that has never seen the light of day because I didn't want the abuse.... it's a hard topic but is there darkness when you shine a light?
I would say this is melancholy but not dark - it reasons around the loss and looks for some kind of balance.
You should maybe publish it, but I understand. Death is scary to many but it too is life. Losing any child is so hard, even stillborn. Thanks Suburban.
Stillborn... man I need to expand my assumptions... great poem regardless....
Ralwus... I wanted to also say I'm sorry that you had to endure that kind of pain. I don't think it's dark to write about something that happened to you... maybe it's dark to some people but life is life. Dark might be just a general poem that projects moroseness or only seeing the negatives of life. It's a tough thing to define. I don't write "happy" all the time; but I have to guard against trying to go deep when I write because I feel the allure of dark words. For me personally it becomes pretentious because I really have no reason to be dark. I have my problems but they are manageable and in some cases self-inflicted so I have to regulate myself with what I say.
The darkest poets are the most thoughtful poets they can dig deep into their souls and find their pain and misfortunes and turn them into something beautiful that can spark others to feel connected to the same such writing and feelings.
Thats just one ex junkie hippie nerds opinion though ha =].
Rev. Archibald Bean
If you in the village of Shreve think my work as good,
who closed the sex shop, stopped gambling
at John Stibb's place, and got that whore
Polly Brinkerman hauled before Judge White
in my crusade to purge the county of sin and vice;
why do you let the good deacon's daughter Julie,
and that worthless Amish son of Jonas Beechy
nightly use my grave for un unholy bed?
Ralwus
Are dark poets always as
unsettled as I.
Once I had the chance
and lost it.
and now.....now.
The darkness of the night
skies give way to stars.
And the wolf moon dances for
pennies at the circus......
Yes....Yes I am dark
and getting darker still.
Are you too afraid
to look me in
the eyes?
oh no! Some one close this thread or my darkness might start showing noooooooo..... tooo late! YOU ALL ARE GOING TO DIE!.... eventually lol.
Yes, until I got help...
I'd like to dye just someday soon and rest through eternity;
A peaceful death, not violent, like drowning in the sea.
To die would be a pleasure, when heartache and pain are gone,
For never again would I have to cry, for the things I've done that were wrong.
Fourth Grade. Wow!
by Mike Pugh 8 years ago
Do you consider yourself to be a true Poet?If so please explain what certifies you as such, you can draw from your writers experience here on Hubpages, or from your true life on the ground of writing for the shear love of poetry. (No spammy answers though with links or the likes.) Note: The purpose...
by PhenomWriter 12 years ago
Many people find Shakespeare's work as 'tough'; but those who do understand, do understand what a genius he was. But was he a good poet?
by Audrey Selig 12 years ago
How could the poet E E Cummins attain fame with deliberate punct, spelling, and grammar errors?
by Dizzy Barlow 4 years ago
I am hoping to receive a post from each poet on Hubpages so that I may read your work and follow you.Thanks,Surfeitt
by Roman Trend 13 years ago
Does every poet have a muse? Does she need one?Being neither a poet nor a habitual lover of poetry, I am wondering why the word "muse" pops up so often where poetry is being discussed.
by Patsy Bell Hobson 6 years ago
It's National Poetry Month. Which poet would you like to meet most?Spend the day with a poet. Take a stroll, enjoy tea in the garden, Have an extravagant dinner or a picnic. The best thing is that you get to talk with this poet.
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