I would have to agree with
redmist. It seems that most people will take Perl Poetry very lightly and not be to concerned with the quality of perl or poetry. If I was ever to write a perl poem I would take it very seriously and make sure of the following:
- Its good poetry
I have seen posts that are good perl, but they suck as poetry. I do not beleive that this is the idea at all. Perl poetry should be harder to write just because its real poetry in code.
- Its good perl
Same as the above, except the other way around: Perl poetry should be harder to write just because its real code in poetry. :)
- Its in good taste and original
Mind you that in good taste does not mean that we can't be obscene, or use vulgar language. I just think that all poetry (or prose for that much) has its place and time. Writing something like $perl++; or #!/usr/bin/perl__END__ and calling it poetry hardly qualifies. Not that its in "bad taste" but its so obvious, and has been said so many times before I can't see anyone benefiting from that sort of post.
- There's some reason to write it
This is somewhat related to the above, but I'll go a bit deeper. I have never written any poetry, mainly because I have nothing to say. I feel that the day I have something that's worth while saying, I might, but for now its not like I'll get up one morning and say, "Oh! Maybe I'll give that perl poetry stuff a shot" and just start writing anything down. That is not a real reason to write.
I am not trying to diss poetic license, much on the contrary, I think people are taking poetic license way too far...
kaboo, I think your first poem was very good, your second ..humm.. yeah, okay, it was okay but not as good as the first.
#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!
