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
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 was reading me a poem he wrote for me. It was beautiful, and going really well… until he read the last line, which had a girl's name in it. It wasn't my name. My boyfriend said, "Shit, wrong girl", and dug through his bag for a different poem. FML
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
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, I spent hours delicately writing out what seemed to be a beautiful poem to my girlfriend. After I sent it to her, I kept eyeing my phone to see her surprised message. No, the only response I got was, "You may want to use a spellcheck." 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 a long poem that ended with, "Please don't get another mister / I regret I screwed your sister". FML
Today, my boyfriend gave me a poem saying "Roses are red, violets are blue, rubbish is dumped and so are you." 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, I wrote my boyfriend a poem, and left it on the bed with a rose for him to see after work. When I came home later, I noticed the flower in the trash, and the poem had been used as gum wrapper. FML
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abbbeyS 14
He is so rude. I bet that what you wrote was amazing tho.
JocelynKaulitz 28
Some people just don't understand poems like others do. I bet it's good.
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Cr8zier 2
Thats on him for not being clear. Many types of poetry and different styles of writing. don't doubt yourself over his inability to be clear.
RAUN 8
If you want to be a writer, write every day, not just when someone asks you to do it. Your ability is to be judged by editors and publishers. Unless your boyfriend is one, as a writer you should pay little heed. Does the average reader like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? Remember, how many publishers rejected the first Harry Potter manuscript before one decided it was worth publishing.
Kashaqueetrah 12
Maybe he thinks poems have to rhyme?
breakinlegs 19
post the poem! post the poem!
TogeBara 12
I was an English major for two years in school (before I changed to game design as it has more opportunities and I enjoy it more), with lots of amazing critiques from my teachers and even had a poem published in some local media. Just because your boyfriend is too much of a neanderthal to understand your art, does not make it bad. You probably wrote it in a scheme that wasn't the average rhyme. He most likely doesn't understand that poems can be written in multiple types of rhythm some of which lack in the rhyming department. Continue your work, but maybe have a teacher or a peer that is also a poet look at your work. If you get a bad review it could be that you wrote a crappy poem, it happens eventually and is unavoidable. People won't like what you write 100% of the time and that is something you need to understand. Creative writing is even more so a testament to this fact. I would only say that you might need to think about your career choices, if you are hesitant about the job market. English is near the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to career paths (the reason I'm in game design now) and if you can't write a good story or reveal some hard fact that is shocking to society, you wont get much out of this choice. Good luck OP, I hope to read your work someday, don't feel dismay at your boyfriend's ignorance.
Stuffaluffagus 25
Maybe your boyfriend is dumb and just can't understand it
cjlerch 29
Tell him that you actually worked hard on that, that he's not getting another, and that that's as real as it gets.
Namenlos_fml 20
Writing is a process. Don't be afraid of criticism, embrace it. Ask him what makes him think what he does before forsaking your goal. For all you know, the mistake could be a simple one, like a misunderstanding of meaning, or a lapse in rhythm.
Xotoolyxo 16
He could have at least pretended to like it
Shark127 3
Or rethink your boyfriend choice...