Gothic and Emo Poetry Online

Poetry is a great way to express you feelings and ideas to others, and with the spread of online culture poetry has become easier and easier to share. This is both good and not so; you can easily get feedback on how to make your riting better and inspirations for themes and styles, but there will always be those people who for one reason or another will make nasty comments about what you wrote. As someone who likes to write poetry, I myself had seen this happen many times, and know how it can be avoided. Here are some tips I learned from my own experience with this:

1)Post anonymously
     If you post your writing anonymously or at least under a name no one will recognise, it will be harder for people to make a personal attack beyond writing something silly in the comments. However, with this be sure to choose a name that reflects who you are as a person and your writing style, not just a jumble of words that "sounds cool". For example, while something like Gothic Poet will look like a respectable individual whose work I'd be glad to read, poems written by an author like  XxXGothVampirePrincessXxX will seem wannabe-cool and overly angsty before one even looks at them.

2)Think of a good title for your work
   Oftentimes a poem comes up to readers only as a title, and it is up to them to choose if they should read it or not. A title should reflect what the work is about, and how much effort you'd put into it. When you have absolutely no idea of what to call your poem, use the first line or part thereof. The style of poem, be it a distinctive style or freestyle, could also go with the title. With that, you'd have something like "Midnight Clouds Above Me (Freestyle)" which sounds interesting, respectable and reader-worthy.

3) Be Mindful of Grammar
 This is so obvious people ofthen forget about it! Always re-read what you're posting before posting it, as it is all too easy to hit the wrong key while typing. Bad grammar and lainguage arts like poetry definitely don't mix.

A good example of the mistakes commonly made I will explain below. This was labelled as an "emo poem", but goes for other styles of poetry as well. You can easily see that effort was put into this work, so I blacked out the author's name so my criticism will not result in personal attacks against them. If you are the author of this and don't want it to be used as an example, leave a comment on this post and I will remove it if you ask.

And so, this poem. I will not say anything about subject matter; this is entierly up to the author to choose what to write about. The first thing I'd noticed are the obviosly edited tears in the photograph. While I do not reccomend posting a picture of yourself as an illustration at all, as it can and will turn into an embarassing "babybat" photo that is hard to remove, I especially don't advise a crying pose or edited-in tears. This adds to the angstyness of an otherwise good work, plus plainly shows the face of the author while it is as I mentioned before best to post anonymously.
Adding to that, the grammar: day's, wnated, a nother, croud, memorie, waisting, breth, and others. be careful while typing, especially in things like this. There is nothing wrong with looking up a word you don't know how to spell. Again, misspellings add to the teenage factor, as though the author is asking for negative critique. In the poem, a lainguage art, this is especially important.
The last thing I wanted to mention was the author's name, which I blacked out for her own security but which she herself posted in plain sight. Posting your first and last name in full as she did here makes it only easier for bullies or "trolls" to find her and send her nasty messages not only in the comments but also on sites like Facebook, and from my own experience I find there are all too many people who would want to do that.