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How can poetry that is about vampires be improved?
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I dont want to hear about "biting her neck delicately" or "crimson blood"

if you can do it originally without coming right out and saying it..then I say go for it.

I guess i dont write vampire poems because of the easy cliche you can do....but maybe i am just too lazy to try something new.

I will tryyyyyyyyyy perhaps.

*tiptoes away, crimson blood dripping from her mouth*

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I hear
your voice
down the hall, through the window, above
all those trees, a light
it seems
& you are singing. What song
is that The words
are beautiful.

-LeRoi Jones

They need more about vampires other activities...like counting...ya know, like the "THE Count" from Sesame street. One, one post, bahahahahahahaha.

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Somebody should go stand with the cheese...it's alone

The mythology varies from place to place, one vampire myth does involve "counting" as a method to elude a vampire..toss a bag of mustard seeds on the ground and they must stop to count all of them. I also recall a type of vampire that could only suck blood through the soles of the victims feet. Talk about overspecialization, lol.

I think a little research could go a long way in improving vampire writing. For example, instead of writing about the cliched hollywood vampire, one could write about the kappas of the far east, critters that literally have a brain in a bowl, a skull with a gaping hole in the top. I think a contest on kappas could be quiet interesting, writing from a non-western viewpoint that may be alien to many of the writers here

I agree with ArmorFelix2001. The genre would greatly be improved if authors bothered to research on vampire myth/literature before writing their own take. Go slightly deeper into the underbelly of the vampire.

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Liviania

Poetry "about vampires" can be improved the same way any poetry can be improved: originality. Doing research can only go so far; new tales don't necessarily require new images, structures, etc. Personally, I'm getting a little tired of poems and stories that focus on a "new take", or a slight variation in plot or mythology. I think the traditional ballad form works very well for most vampire poetry, and it's fun to learn about mythologies from different cultures, but your choices of words and your individual brand new inventions on how to piece those words together are what will make your poems interesting to read.

Vampire mythologies are very popular, obviously, and have been overused to the point where it's extremely difficult to move beyond cliche. Remember when the half-human half-vampire was a new idea? It's almost a dare to be able to come up with something new... almost as difficult as writing an original love poem... a suggestion I'll make is parody: insert a vampire (story) into an existing traditional poem format besides a ballad. For example, a vampire sonnet, or collection of haikus have a lot of potential. Might have to give it a try. But only if Queen Heather does it first.

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I have no hopes, no resources, no money. I am the happiest man alive. -- Henry Miller

First thought: "People write poetry about vampires??? You've got to be kidding!"

I'm more an elves and fairies sort of person, but I agree that in those cases the cliches can ruin an otherwise interesting subject, so I'm willing to grant that it does for vampires too. One of the things I find most fascinating about all these creatures is the way they react to time (a favorite topic of mine): not only are they are enduring images in the human imagination, but they are also said to live longer, be immortal, etc. So I think not only would it be interesting to look at the way their depictions have changed over time, but also try to place oneself in their situation, for example: What might a vampire/fae/elf have to say about living from the time of Julius Caesar to the present day? That's a poem I'd want to read. What might be their reaction to the way we live our lives, as opposed to the insights they might have gained in multiple centuries of life? Alternatively, what might a very short lived sprite have to say about the way we squander time?

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The Original Tearlin Fan
"In every wood in every spring, there is a different green." ~Tolkien

'Vampires and Their Big Cloaks' by Johnny

You're only a vampire
if you wear a great big cloak.
It won't shade you from fire,
and the sun turns you to smoke;
but you'll look like demon spawn
a malicious, evil shape.
Up until the break of dawn,
when all that's left....is your cape.

Stay away from stereotypes unless they're well used.

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Every story is a ghost.

I do get ticked at stories, or roleplaying for that matter where there's a character hobbled together from a thousand different parts. Another good piece of advice would be to keep the vampires realistic (unless for satire) because the reading audience today is a more critical one to such things than in the past. Realism gets the vampire character limits, flesh them out, and in a way makes them more human, something the reader can relate to.

A haiku would indeed be something a bit different. Also, I'm surprised more writing doesn't go into what the vampire myth really symbolizes..excesses of the flesh and taboos