First Prose than Poetry

So I wonder why people write poems.. I mean I don't know why they try so hard to rhyme each word, make each sentence sound perfect. I was never the one who likes them. I can't write and I can't read one even. Of course I can read but I don't have patience to analyze each word for its hidden meaning behind. I don't have patience to read it twice and adore it. I read them in school because they were going to be in exams and of course I had hard time with that. It was like I memorize them robotically, without tune, without thinking about its meaning.

I asked my blogger friend that why do they like to write poems. He said its just a way to express things and feelings in a 'subtle' way! So subtle way huh? Well then I am not the person subtle way is for.

So whenever I get across poems on someone's blog first I check the length. I am particularly more aversed with long poems. I can't read all and remember how the poem started and still find it beautifully written. I usually forget the first paragraph after going to the fourth. So I can't see how beautifully it is linked. So you see why I have an aversion with long poems.

Second I see the blogger. Yeah this also depends who has return it. If it is someone who I closely follow then I would take a sneak peak at least.

And then it depends upon the topic on which it is written on. You know that people write poems on any topic and on any thing. They write on rain and childhood. I have seen poem on childhood toys too.
And there are some common topics on which is written on now and then. I find their contents almost same always because of my indifference for words. I can't see the difference the words have made on the poem.

Because of these three things I mostly skip all the poems that come before me on blogspot. I accept poems are not for me. I prefer reading prose then poetry.

Please do comment even if it is criticism.. :D  I would take it as constructive criticism ;)