Today, I wrote a poem for this guy I am falling for. Before telling him that I wrote it, he read it and then laughed at how "corny and stupid" it was because he would "never date someone who could come up with something that lame." The poem was about how vulnerable he makes me feel. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, my boyfriend asked me to write him a poem, as I am an avid writer. Happily, I agreed. After hours of working, I proudly presented it to him. He read it, laughed, and said, "No babe, I meant a real poem." Maybe I should rethink my career choice. FML
Today, my friend, on whom I have a crush since I can remember, read the most beautiful poem to me, which he'd written himself. After reading it, he said that it was for a girl he likes, and asked me if it was good. FML
Today, I spilled my heart out to a guy by showing him one of my poetry journals. He read through it and said, "Wow, I feel sorry for the guy you wrote about." The poems were all about how I loved him. FML
Today, my boyfriend gave me a really sweet poem that he wrote for me. I think it was secondhand - the first letter of each verse spelled his ex girlfriend's name. FML
Today, my boyfriend wrote me poetry. Here's how it went: "Roses are red, violets are blue, I suck at poetry, show me your tits." That's the most romantic thing he's done for me. FML
Today, my boyfriend asked me if we were going to become "that stupid couple that sings cheesy songs to each other." I just spent the past 3 months writing the perfect song that I was planning on singing to him tonight. FML
Today, the person I've been trying so hard to get with wrote me a beautiful poem that almost everyone at my school saw and liked. It was about how we'd never be together. FML
Today, my boyfriend came across an old poem I wrote. I like to write horror stuff, but he was disturbed, called it “silly” and “sad”, and said he didn’t want to have a girlfriend who thinks about stuff like that. I'm now discouraged from becoming a writer. FML
Today, my boyfriend wrote a song for me. As he was singing it to me I realized it was actually a breakup song. FML
Today, I received the sweetest love letter from my boyfriend after having a bad day. After gushing about it and reading it to my friends, they said it reminded them of a letter that they'd seen online. He got it from a fill-in-the-blank love letter generator. FML
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redbluegreen 41
It's cool that you had the guts to gave him a poem you wrote yourself, but you really shouldn't write about how vulnerable someone makes you feel. And they're a little overdone, making them even more corny. Not everyone appreciates poetry though.
ZiggyMorrison 0
most guys dont like poems specially love poems you should have just told him how you felt its not that hard
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diet_otaku 0
you dodged a bullet on that one, you're better off without that asshole.
kyeee 0
how did he not know it was from you? did you leave it in his locker or something? because thats extra lame. and really a poem before even telling him you like him? i can understand if you were dating and trying to be cute... but just a love poem out of no where can never be good. maybe your poem was super corny and lame. he wouldnt have said it if it wasnt.
Numba22 0
haha. #2
fxdxhk90 0
Most dudes aren't into poetry. Try another strategy and see what happens.
Weil 0
Writing poetry for people ALWAYS makes you look like a stalker. You should have known.
Vintage_art 0
Okay what a douche bag of a guy. He's not worth it if he acts like that right away. Also what's with the people agreeing with #3 who's mental state is one of a neanderthal. Girls should be able write poetry for guys. For God sake, we're living in the 21st century! It's just sexist.
Shlizabeth 0
You're an idiot because, A.) Love poems are epic failures. B.) The only time love poems aren't epic failures is when they're well written. C.) Even some of the best authors cannot write a good poem. D.) You're a creeper for giving some guy an anonymous love poem. E.) How vulnerable he makes you feel? Ew, uh, this isn't sex ed, it's real life.
emzmcgee 0
I don't get why everyone thinks the guy is such an asshole, he was being honest, he's obviously not into poetry and he didn't know she wrote it. I'm a woman and if a guy wrote me a poem about his feelings for me, I'd be a bit weirded out myself because I'm not into that sort of thing at all. When doing something like that you really have to take the person you're writing it for into consideration, because obviously poetry is not for everyone.
jambalai555 0
why would you write him a poem?
littlegolferboy 4
Wow, what a douche. Don't listen to people on here, there's nothing wrong with writing a love poem for a guy. Not knowing that you wrote them for him is no excuse for his behaviour. My ex would write poems for me and I loved them, even if I didn't really get them.