POLL: Do You Like to Write Poetry?
I love storytellers. Those old-fashioned storytellers from days gone by, days gone by as in the Middle Ages.
Those storytellers still exist, and you can hire them if you’re organising a medieval festival or, for example, want to liven up a birthday or other party.
Hiring a storyteller is certainly not cheap. Of course, the voice needs to be pleasant to listen to, so it’s wise to ask to tell a short story before you hire someone.
A storyteller isn’t someone who reads a story out in a monotonous voice or simply rattles it off. A good storyteller uses the voices of different characters and puts on a sort of play. That’s the way to captivate listeners. Incidentally, this is something I often find lacking in audiobooks: a captivating voice.
With a good narrator, even the dullest story or the most tedious, incomprehensible poem becomes a pleasure to listen to.
I also love telling stories and writing poems. I absolutely love poems that tell a story, preferably a fairy tale or a fable. There are quite a few of these in Old Dutch, and not just a few lines, no, hundreds of pages long. I’ve written this sort of poetic stories myself, and I still think they’re brilliant. That probably makes me my own biggest fan. Whenever I reread them, I’m amazed about what I wrote.
(To be honest, I don’t find all poems impressive or enjoyable, there are such a boring ones, and there’s nothing wrong with that.)
I also find that I enjoy writing a poem way more than reading one. This is most likely because I love puzzling over words, playing with double meanings, proverbs and sayings.
A story can be an existing (twisted) fairy tale, a fable, or something you’ve made up out of thin air. It can be narrative or in poetic form.
How many of you on Steemit write fictional stories and/or poems?
Who writes for pleasure, perhaps finding more joy in writing than in reading?
They say you have to read a lot to be able to write well. Is that true, or does the same apply here: that those bound by rules never really come to real #creativewriting?
*I hardly dare say it, but… If you write a narrative poem (you, not AI), I’ll reward the good, enjoyable, funny, sad and thought-provoking ones with 5 Steem.
This poll will run for 14 days!
19.9.26
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📊 Do you like to write a story/poem?
- Yes, more than reading one
- Yes, but it depends on my mood
- Yes, but only certain ones
- No, it is a mystery to me
- Way too boring
- I never tried
- I do not write, I read
- Other, ... (Please, explain)
Poll — pick up to 2 · voting closes Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:12:55 GMT. Vote on SteemX.
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I have to admit, some poems, I do not understand, no matter how many times I read them. And then I wonder, do I need to think a certain way haha. So, poems for me, it depends. I write them when I have an inspiration to. And for me to appreciate poems by others, I have to understand, else I don't appreciate. But when there are comments saying how good it is, I would scratch my head wondering how is it good? Then, I would end up not commenting because I do not know what to say haha.
I love story tellers too, inspiring ones especially. I do enjoy watching motivational story tellers because I need some form of motivation to pump me up sometimes. Even in movies or dramas, I enjoy watching characters who are story tellers. And I love story telling but mostly on my life stories or something I watched or heard. I think my brain is not as creative or imaginative as I want it to be sometimes. I've been thinking to participate in the Exquisite Corpse but my brain doesn't want to co-operate 😅But I do agree that the more we read, the more we experience or the more we hear, it does help with writing.
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I love writing and reading stories and poems. I have written stories on social media and poems as well.
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Previously, I ONLY wrote poetry. Prose pieces gradually came to mind, really only through blogging here on Steem. Poetry is important to me because it allows me to write in a more controlled way. And that, in turn, helps me think in a more controlled way… Reading poetry was, of course, where it all began. But there are only a few that really speak to me (those by @ty-ty are definitely among them ;-)))
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