What's wrong with Funny poems???-TheRavensGhost

I think people expect all poetry to be dark and sad and mysterious, and when something funny comes along, they're like, that;s not serious, it can't be good poetry...

I've read your poem! It's great! I don't know how it;s only got 3.4 :S There are poems on this site much worse than yours, which don't even have simple punctuation which have got higher ratings than yours... i think it all stems back to people's ideas that good poetry should be serious

Imi
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It's hard for me to find a good silly poem an dmost just do it for me. If I found one that made me laugh I'd vote high but if it didn't I'd vote lower. I wouldn't care if it flowed right or not. So I ten dot stay away from those poems :/

I love writing humorous poetry. When I first post a funny poem, I get 5s but the minute it hits the best rated poems list, it goes from being a five to somewhere between 3 and 4.5. I just don't worry about the rating. I look at the comments. I figure those that like it will comment on it and those that don't, well let them vote it down. Low votes aren't going to force me to stop doing something I love to do.

Because a very large percentage of people on this site are depressive... and as soon as you laugh, you aren't sad anymore... which sort of ruins your emo "cool look."

//T.L.//

I agree with the comments more inmportant than the rating.

You shouldn't have deleted them. Just because some of the people didn't like them doesn't mean noone liked them. If I'm writing poetry, I write what I enjoy writing. If I don't like it I don't post it. Some I like more than others but if you have a god given talent to write, then don't second guess yourself. I have notebook on top of notebook of poems that I liked the idea of but they didn't turn out very well. I take them out once and awhile and read them again. Alot of the times I can fix them and when I'm satisfied, I'll post them.

Never sell yourself short if writing is something you enjoy doing.

funny poems ... arent feeling anything they are trying to make people laugh .. ppl dont read poetry to laugh ... they read it to feel

your poems is amazing, i do not know why it has been marked down?

i noticed this too, its weird because it also seems that most ppl whose poems i read hav at least one random mad poem, so u wud think that they understand. but obviously not, i think its because funny poems are usually imature and ppl think that poems should be serious or something.

personally i think its great jsut to mess around with words and see what comes of it, its usually very entertaining, thats how i wrote my funny poem 'bunny sqwalkings' and yes ppl say things like 'i dont see the point of it'...to those i say THE POINT IS TO BE ENTERTAINING, TO BRING SOME HUMOUR TO YOUR MISERABLE LIVES.

apparntly they dont want to be entertained, they just want to know that everyone else is suffering as they are!!

I Think The Major Reason Why Funny Poems Are Underated Is Because Authors Are Coming With Similar Poetry Already Written About Before, And For The Simple Fact That EVERYONE Has a Diffrent Sense Of Humor, I Might Roll On The Floor Laughing About a Movie With Chris Tucker In It, And Someone Else May Just Look At Me Like Why Are You Laughing This Man Just Isn't Funny

To Each His Own xoxo-Nikki-xoxo

i dont think anythings wrong with a funny poem ,as long as they make sense =].
every once in a while ppl enjoy them.

Because everybody's sense of humour is different, not everyone will think that every funny poem, is humourous I guess.

Absolutly nothing.

^I don't judge them on being funny or not, just as long as their poetic, flowing, etc.

I wrote one last night and when I went to bed it was rated at 5 with 5 votes.. when i looked when i logged in it was down to 4.4 with 9 votes and someone else just voted now and put it down to 4.1.. rating doesn't bother me really, but wish they would give the reasons for voting it so low

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