Never in my life have I been creative. I was the kid who didn't have an imagination; most of the games I played were based off of something I'd seen before. In fourth grade, my favorite subject was writing because prompts were always provided. Now, I'd rather write an essay on a topic I'm not interested in than a narrative on an interest of mine. I can take an idea and run with it, but I can't come up with anything on my own. I even find poetry difficult, as structured as it can be. Poets who write within boundaries, e.g. Shakespeare, are incredible because they can express their ideas in a certain amount of syllables with a certain rhyme scheme.

One thing I'm extremely baffled by is the amount of notes (times a post has been featured on a blog) screenshots of unoriginal, unstructured poetry get on Tumblr.

For example:


And:
 

For one: neither of these poems are original. I'm sure just about everyone has thought about whether or not suicide is ethical and how much they care/don't care about old partners. Also, neither poems have any structure. It's as if the author literally wrote down their thoughts exactly as they were being processed in his/her mind. It doesn't seem like any actual work went into these poems, so should they even be referred to as "works"? Are unoriginal lack-of-work works still art? Should they be referred to as art just because they are widely-popular? I guess it's in the "eye of the beholder".

My eye says these poems suck.