dialyn opened this issue on Mar 18, 2003 ยท 7 posts
dialyn posted Tue, 18 March 2003 at 8:48 PM
Attached Link: Confessions of a Poetaster
I may get this printed on a business card. :) * * * * * *A poet writes poems; the writer of inferior poems is called a "poetaster." A writer of insignificant, meretricious, or shoddy poetry. [New Latin potaster : Latin pota, poet; see poet + Latin -aster, pejorative suff.] Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ***************************** Po"et*as`ter, n. An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. --Macaulay. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Shoshanna posted Tue, 18 March 2003 at 8:53 PM
lol Dialyn, if I'd known that word before, I'd have used it as a screenie Shanna :-)
dialyn posted Tue, 18 March 2003 at 8:59 PM
I got there first. :oD
Charmz posted Wed, 19 March 2003 at 6:58 AM
Describes me to a 'T'. What rhymes with Tyalangan'di?
awayne2 posted Thu, 20 March 2003 at 11:39 PM
That is me too on bad days, like today. But oh well.
jgeorge posted Fri, 21 March 2003 at 11:09 AM
"Poetastro" is the Italian word, and it's used pretty often here... usually by people who feel the best poets alive and are calling thus every other poet they read...
dialyn posted Fri, 21 March 2003 at 11:17 AM
Some people have beautifully developed egos, don't they? So large that they crush everyone around them. Ah well. I don't mind admitting I'm in the Poetaster Club. When it comes to poetry, honesty forces me to admit that I have more audacity than skill.