Take a raging endocrine system. Add poor English skills and little experience of the world. Combine this with an ego that is big enough to kill a grown ox. Gently lay on top a passionate desire for introspection. You have a timebomb, folks. It's called Teenage Poetry.
| Boys are never forever
You're heart is not a plaything,
Written by: Roxy.
|
Learn to spell! Learn to spell! A truly unique observation, never before made in the history
of humankind.
Thanks, Roxy! |
| Drone
I am a pawn, a usless being
Watch me as i grovel at your feet
An empty shell, i am nothing
Forgotten. |
This example from Gothic "The
Scarred Angel" shows a few salient features for you.
Firstly, it exemplifies the classic teenage nihilist-suicide style that consumes so much rhyming time among the hormonally charged members of the community. Its bleak Orwellian-Oedipal distress is particularly cheering to the rest of us. Secondly, the typical antispelling is apparent. "usless", "masters trail", "spinless", "wishs", "idea's" (and for pedants, you can also add "till" which should be "until" or 'til) I suppose the power of the emotions overcame his power to spell and punctuate. |
| Vampire
Crosses of gold,
|
One wonders why some poems are ever
written at all. Of course poetry was the best way to discuss
the topic of vampires.
Affect is a verb. Effect is a noun
(except "to effect change")
Exactly what was this poem meant to achieve, I wonder. |
| Cassie
Cry not till now,
|
Poor Cassie. I bet she didn't deserve
this...
"Cry not till now"? i.e. "Start crying now"? Swell, and burst. Maybe not...
Huh? "they"? The "words" from line 2 or the "truth" from
above?
The sentence constructions are appalling!
What does this mean? Does this mean the Doth? Oh, not again!
Holdeth? Anyway, what is he going on about?
Yes, well. I bet Cassie's confused too. |
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