Do you read or write poetry?

I read poetry.

I like e.e.cummings, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, modern poets; many styles and kinds of poetry.

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anyone lived in a pretty how town
by E. E. Cummings

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

I read poetry...Michael madsen and jack kerouac are two of my favorites.

i hate poetry.....

but i love to read novels and real life incidents....

I HATE poetry.

I love both reading and writing poetry. It's kind of my hobby.

i tried. i couldnt get into it.

Love reading it, love writing it.
Find it an amazing way to creatively express oneself.

I read and write. :P

all the time!! It's how I express myself. Also in song and piano pieces... Sometimes in story form to.. I just love to write!

I love reading poetry but i don't make poetry. :/

I used too, until I became bored with life.

Now nothing inspires me to write poetry, life and the people in it are just too predictable....nothing amazing.

I write more than I read. I love thr rhythm, and the way you can express yourself. That's why I love to write fiction too.

Do lyrics count as poetry? Also I read occasionally.

I Read And Write Poetry.

I write. It comes pretty easily to me but I like the challenge of making the words flow. It also soothes me and usually puts me in a wonderful mood. (:

i don't exactly write poetry. i write songs.

"Up, up, where Parwin's hoofs stamp heaven's floor,
My soul went knocking at each starry door,
Till on the stilly top of heaven's stair,
Clear-eyed I looked--and laughed--and climbed no more."---snippet

The only poem I've ever intentionally read is this one by Omar Khayyam. he was an atheist before it was cool to be atheist.

i like spare poetry, stark and evocative or soft too. a few lines otherwise its boring, dylan thomas is ok for longer

I used to write poems and short stories in high school. My teacher thought I had some talent so she recommended to an art school but they rejected me.

They told me my stories had too much description and not enough dialogue.

I love writing poetry, and I love reading too. But I don't really like a lot of fiction books. I'm into books that are based on true stories. I like bio's, and I love books on love&romance.

I used to write poetry and I love to read.

I write poetry, though I don't read that much. If I do, it's the classics, such as Poe, Lovecraft etc.

I write poetry, but mostly those are just failed song lyrics. It seems to me that poetry fans are very easily impressed. I've seen poetry hailed as masterful just because of one vaguely clever instance of wordplay.

I don't respect poets at all. It's just too easy to take a very abstract subject and just write some random stuff about it.

"Birds fly, wind blows. Sun. Reaching the sky. Oh, I wonder."

There, a typical poem that people like to read and pay for. A masterpiece in just five seconds.