Should be lots of poets here, no?

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With such deep, slow, resolute preoccupations that we have, with melancholy, sex and stubborn, obtuse love for truth clumped together - as if characters out of Moby Dick - I would expect a particularly strong poetic streak among Aspergers.

i've been known to write a poem from time to time.

there's one here, at least.

I definitely have a poetic disposition

I like rhymes and rhyming poems, as in my signature.

Published poet, though not for a long time. Making patterns and images with words always came naturally to me.

Am feeling much better lately and might return to writing poetry and sorting old stuff lying around in first draft form in my cupboards.

I dislike rhyming poetry though, not my cup of tea. I taught a poetry class for a term once. Tried to convey the message that poets use imagery to paint pictures on the walls of the reader's mind. These were adolescent students and they had been turned off poetry by an earlier teacher who just made them read and memorise dated poetry that had no relevance nor personal meaning to these young people. Imagery, they got that.

I've occasionally turned my hand to writing uniformly bad poetry. I can do ok with prose, but I've never really had the knack of poetry or lyrics.

I should like to see some poems from members. Is there a Poetry Corner? There should be one.

I write short stories and poems, occasionally submitting them to writing contests. I'm part of the editorial team for an ongoing anthology (we publish non-fiction, fiction, and poetry), and I'm subscribed to Conduit, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Jubilat.

poems confuse me.

I'm not a poet,
but my feet show it ....

Here's one of mine:

The end of our relationship

Pain leaks
from me
like blood
from a deep gash;
never supposed
we'd crash and burn
like this
all that time
and love
and risk;
yet we have
and there is no going back.

I've never been much for beautiful use of language. It's why I respect works like McCarthy's The Road so much. All my melancholy and brooding goes into character and plot development.

to say i feel conflicted about posting my work online would be serious understatement, but this one seems appropriate after the winter i had (and it's--perhaps mercifully--brief); i wrote it about 5 years ago:

winter weight

I wish I could just lose this winter weight; I've been
carrying it for far too many seasons; too many
days spent hiding inside, away from cruel weather
and harsh white light. I wish I could tell you when
it was that I gained this cloaking heaviness, this
slung burden encompassing my borders to the
outside cold. how stealthily it can creep up on
you like a second skin, this flesh shadow enveloping
a sleeping self with the lulling drag of gravity.

good one starvingartist

I like rhyming poetry for the pattern of sounds.
I like to rhyme as many words as possible on each line and still have it make sense, constraint to creativity.

I can understand that. It's just a personal choice what style a person likes best. I like rhythm more than rhyme.