Can poetry have a popular rebirth, or are good lines only useful in greeting cards and advertisements?

Are Y!A, and the like, places where poetry and prose can take root on the rocky crag of popular indifference?

Can poetry have a popular rebirth, or are good lines only useful in greeting cards and advertisements?
I believe poetry can have a rebirth and needs to do so, It is traditionally the spirit and soul of prophecy. There is much that is cheap and tawdry in this world of ours, as well as demeaning and demoralizing. The false prophets stomp about the marketplace with their iron horns and self-serving glorification of false power. The images need to be turned back on them, and people need someone to proclaim the vision and dream the dreams of peace and restoration.
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Reply:No. I don't think anything will induce the masses of this self-serving and "I want it now" society to care about poetry because poetry is something that you have to work at. You have to work to write poetry -- not everything that people call "poems" really are -- and you have to often work to understand poetry.





Poetry is a wonderful and marvelous tool of expression and beauty, but poetry does not usually offer the instant gratification that this society craves.





The only thing that will resurrect poetry in the hearts and minds of society is good and passionate teachers. I hope, someday, to instill my passionate love for poetry into my students, and it is my hope that the others who come before me and after me will do the same.
Reply:Yes but not all of them.It doesn't sound correct even if you create specally or the occasion.So I don't suggest it's use on cards.
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Reply:a definite maybe...





friends, I must leave now, my sincere apologies to those I offended, but my bark is far worse than my bite, my sincere thanks to those who engaged me, no matter how, I learned from you, my heartfelt thanks to those who felt it in their hearts to talk to me...


my beliefs and my convictions ask me to bow my head and acknowledge each and every one of you, may you all find peace... I do that gladly...


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Reply:I would say yes.





I've been in classrooms where poetry is loved by students, and I know friends who live for it. I too enjoy writing every now and again. It would be nice to see more published, especially for the younger generations--that way they're raised with an appreciation for it.

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