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Nice! 🙂

I quickly skimmed through this and thought I read foreskin and was very confused for a brief period of time.

That was very well put together. A for structure and A+ for theme.

Shades of Plugson here...

dunno why, but it sorta reminds me of geisel

nice one

The Snow didn't win the last election for two reasons:
1) The Coalition didn't vote because I supported Jacobi.
2) I pushed Jacobi over myself publicly, only pushing myself through my party constituents when it became apparent that Jacobi was going to win.

This is called being a nice guy and letting someone who seemed honest and willing to listen to opposing view points and take them into consideration take the lead, which I did. Unfortunately, Nice Guys finish Second, and then get fired.

If you are going to make me waste valuable time by reading a critique of me at least get your own history correct. Honestly you guys truly are worse than the Coalition. And to think I just sent an ambassador to your party once again to offer you a chance to take part in my Cabinet, and this is your response.

What a bunch of trolls

What the hell game are you playing man?

This isn't Speed Travian. Take it down a notch.

Some people only log in for 5 minutes a day. That's what being AFK was supposed to be about.

In the last election you did make it known that you supported Jacobi. You obviously made that known! You two even had the same Cabinets! I certainly know my history.

However, there was much more that was different with your CP Platform. You pushed for your election for quite sometime. You gave people reasons to vote for you. I remember looking at my feed and seeing several posts throughout the day encouraging others to vote for you. I remember you saying how you were going to sleep

and hoping to wake up as CP. If you really wanted to finish second, you would’ve made sure that you had plenty of votes as a buffer between you and 3rd place. However, you pressed on.

Also, on a normal day, I would probably look at taking a part in your Cabinet. Tonight, I have no interest at the moment. You got fired from being VP for doing the exact opposite of what a VP does. In return, you declare yourself “Shadow President” and decide you should impeach him.

Also, stop calling everyone a troll. A well thought out and articulated article of opinion is not trolling. Saying something like “OMG Tryael is soooooo butthurt and won’t stop complaining and being stupid. Why won’t he shut up and stop complaining about his butthurt-ness,” while including stupid and off-putting pictures is trolling. Articles based on Opinion and Observation is not trolling.

I approve.

I'm a writer, and besides I wrote over 300 poems I read over a thousand of them.
This is a joke.

"A poem is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities."

I'll just repeat this aesthetic part: Aesthetic... Aesthetic.... Aesthetic.... Aesthetic........

This has nothing to do with poetry. This is a rap song.

0_o...So in Canada, a guy writes a nice poem and it starts a considerable political debate ?
Lol, nice poem mate. If I was Canadian I would be a wolf. That being said, you need to see the sun to dance in the snow 😉

Tyrael, I am honestly sick of you. Your "shadow president" run is just another of your attempts to gain power. Your person occult of Clan Wolf has been duped into supporting you on a cause that many including myself initially was supportive of. You claim to be against the coalition and for responsibility and transparency, but you refuse to work at all with my party because in the long haul, you are only in it for yourself.

Merriam-Webster, the foremost authority on the English Language, defines poetry as,

"writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm."

I'll tell you that I am an artist. I work with, listen to, and play music all day long (Rap being my least favorite). I love poetry and other literature. Poetry is a literary art consisting of rhyme, meter, theme, and other

aesthetic forms of the english language. This is what sets it apart from prose and other forms of literature. Poetry is meant to have a musical effect. It is meant to have rhythm. It is meant to convey imagery, meaning, and evoke an emotional response much like music. There is a reason some poetry is “Lyrical” Poetry. In the ancient times, lyric poetry was sung (as were epics such as Beowulf, although singing the whole of that would be crazy).

Overall, poetry is an art form. Not all art is loved by everyone. For instance, my mother desn’t like the Mona Lisa. Yet it hangs in the Louvre as one of the greatest masterpieces. Just because you may not like it, doesn’t mean it isn’t poetry or art. (Go look at modern art at the Art Institute of Chicago. That stuff is crazy) I could submit this to my college class and although responses may differ, they would say it is still poetry. My poem is just as much art as anything else.

If e.e. cummings stylized and confusing works constitute poetry, than my work sure does too.

For reference see: http://bit.ly/9l000g http://bit.ly/eB7i3y http://bit.ly/11iZOw

I have to admit, I always loved "I carry your heart with me" We had a 250 person chorus sing a song built around that poem. It was stunningly gorgeous.

o7!

"I carry your heart" is poetry, but this thing you wrote ? My sister could write this... She is 5.

It looks like you just wnated it to rhyme and that is it. The song is not a poem just because it has a rhyme.
On the contrary, many poems don't have lyrics that rhyme... (Walt Whitman poems for example)
And poem must have rhythm ??? I would love to hear you sing poems that Edgar Allan Poe wrote 🙂 🙂

If I'm to believe your definition of poetry then Lady Gaga has some great poems. She is a really good poet....

I never intended to mean song is automatically music or vice versa. I was drawing a comparison between the two. Everyone has their own style, and everyone has something different about them. Just because you don't like the song or artist, doesn't mean it is not music or anything. Its the beauty of art, you aren't quite sure what you may see, hear, or read. In the end you may not like it. However, that song, book, or painting may touch someone in a way you could never imagine.

Yes, many poems don't have rhyme, rhythm or other properties. It is called free verse or blank verse poetry. I just assumed everyone knew this. It is not necessary for poetry to have a set of elements. There is not some panel of people grading compositions on a checklist and approving it as poetry.

Also, your 5 year old sister sounds like a wonderful person! It seems she has quite the grip on the English language as well as using the language to create various literary compositions and art.

Lol at people getting butthurt cause he said it was a poem (which it is). Anyone who bashes other people because he doesn't agree with the other person's artistic style isn't much of a artist (aka: poet/writer) to begin with. Also, what's your pen name Mochan? I'm curious if you're a published writer or a "I have a folder on my computer with over 300 poems in it!" writer.

First off who cares if its a poem or a rap or a raging elephant boner.

The point is we are "trolling" Tyrael, and by trolling I mean wittily pointing out displeasure at a leading politicians behavior. Which one could argue is the role of the press, to question and promote discourse.

troll article is troll article

B+ for hidden agenda disguised as art

A- for instigating non-eRep related debate that is better than most of the crap that goes on here

This isn't a poem, it's a terrible, terrible rap song

~hyuu~
lol @Simon B-R

Haha I loved Simon's comment too!

Personally, while I respect the effort and time you spent writing this poem, feel that poetry isn't the best medium to express your thoughts here. I don't find poetry enjoyable when it is immediately relevant to society, and politics nonetheless! I'd prefer poems if they're more abstract.

I completely understand! Its just what came to mind. It gets a little boring when you write/read large walls of text full of complaining and criticisms all the time. So I decided a little alternative might be nice.

Poetry in Top 4 is something I can just barely tolerate.

Poetry in Top 4 with more comments than the votes is downright intolerable.

At least there should be a bikini-clad woman in that beach picture, and wearing a Canada flag bikini at that. It's rather shameful that the media has fallen to such heights of discourse. What's next, philosophy? Child-rearing?
oh wait!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-snows-log-2109945/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/literature-2110324/1/20