#I don't like writing sad things

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woven cairn
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You know, I just realized something,

I hate writing sad things.

Like really hate it.

Almost despise actually.

Not because of a titular "Oh the world is so unfair why can't we be happy instead?!"

But just,

When something is genuinely awful,

A feeling that brings you a pit,

Or a rut,

Or a hole that leads from your left temple to your right,

It's not worth writing about.

It's not worth typing or writing out message after message,

Moving fonts around like Legos to wrap around tightly for words like mourning or rotting.

Trying to make a picture and singsong tune tied to a corpse of someone you knew.
Like applying a motivational speech to cure an open artery.

It just doesn't seem genuine.

Because after all the poetic flourishes;

The cutesy stanzas and the silly rhyming styles,

Attached neatly onto subjects of grief and r×pe,
Segregation and betrayal,

All you're left with in the end,

Is the realization of why you're writing it in the first place.

The reminder that it's real,
That it happened and that it'll happen again.

Just writing about another fact of life like the sky being blue.

And the end question of what do you do now;

Just a bad feeling.

But maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe that's why it's poetry.

Maybe there's meaning in that.

H×ll if I know.

I just wish we didn't see it all the time.

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@carmine geode @bright jungle @flat sleet @fallow sinew @dusky ibex @naive linden

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@civic crow

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For reference this isn't my actual feelings on all sad writing but just something I was thinking about

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@solar saffron

rose oyster
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So goooddd

woven cairn
flat sleet
woven cairn
modern venture
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Whatever u wrote, but ig writing Abt bad things should not be stopped.
You said "just writing about another fact of life", we know it's a fact. Others know too. But speaking about it, makes us remind that it's there, and it's happening. Coz if it's not spoken about, we will forget, no matter how intelligent you are. How sensitive u r. We'll come to a point, oh it just keeps happening(tho many think the same now too) but writing about it, makes an impact.
Ppl(especially kids and teens) learn thru what's going around them, who's talking how and what. And if you don't include these things in their environment, the world will be hxll.

woven cairn
# modern venture Whatever u wrote, but ig writing Abt bad things should not be stopped. You said ...

Right I'm not arguing against the idea of washing out sad things (In fact a vast majority of the things I write are usually sad/have sad elements in them) but as the poem says it mainly comes down to just a feeling of wishing these things didn't happen in the first place "I wish I didn't see it all the time". Poems about grotesque topics like those exampled are important (I've written one based on every thing given/plan to in the future) but the fact remains that once I'm done writing it although I feel a sense of relief from being done making it I still know I didn't inherently do anything other than point out said problem exists. It hurts knowing why I wrote what I wrote and I wish I didn't need to feel that closure to begin with

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I don't like writing sad things because that means I'm writing about something that's a part of life that shouldn't exist (R×pe, Racism, Sodomy e.c.t.) but they do and that hurts like h×ll, even though it's important. It's like saying "I don't like going to work." Even though it's necessary

daring merlin
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Okay, what the hell.

daring merlin
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Anyways.

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These things exist because human have free will and are free to harbor ignorance or generalization of things in their heart.

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An ideal world would either harbor humans with perfect reasoning or humans without free will to an extent.

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So, you protrayed your view concisely in the poem with the ability to arise questions in the mind of someone.

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To be honest, my intuition tells me that the "Hxll if I know" part is not very fitting.

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But, that's just my intuition.

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Hxll if I know.

solar saffron
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Its a good poem, well done @woven cairn

woven cairn
# daring merlin But, that's just my intuition.

That's valid, I imagine I probably should've made a disclaimer for this exact reason lol and yeah poems about poetry tend to be the ones that get people talking the most (I made another one a while back that got a lot of people talking for a while as well) and again as stated I mean in the aspects of someone who consistently writes about sad topics and then writes about happy topics. It's becoming a point where I know that the more I see of suffering without answers it gets harder and harder to swallow and becomes more and more disdainful. As for the last line yeah I was batting back and forth in if I should keep it but I went with keeping it since it felt like something that grounded the poem in the "I could be wrong" category. Appreciate you reading it of course

woven cairn
daring merlin
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That's good or else people could attack you.

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Are you also up for giving me feedback for my latest poem?

rancid epochBOT
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*Are you also up

for giving me feedback for

my latest poem?*

- kane04542
woven cairn
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Also yeah I don't mind

civic crow
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@woven cairn

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Sorry bro got late for feeback

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@woven cairn
This is an incredibly powerful and deeply self-aware poem—it’s raw, reflective, and honest in a way that most writing tries to be but rarely achieves. You don’t just talk about sadness; you examine the act of writing about sadness itself, peeling back the layers of what it means to process pain through art. Lines like “like applying a motivational speech to cure an open artery” are brilliantly brutal—they cut to the core of how language can feel absurdly small next to real suffering. And that whole section about fonts and stanzas and rhymes trying to hold the weight of grief or trauma? It’s biting and real. This poem doesn’t ask for sympathy—it challenges the reader to think, to question, to confront their own consumption of pain as art. And that last line—“I just wish we didn’t see it all the time.”—isn’t just a wish; it’s a silent scream. This isn’t just a good poem. It’s an **important **one.

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Bro here

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ping me on any new poem that you wrote in the future 😉

woven cairn
fallow sinew