Hmm...where to start?
Many brilliant poets were offended in the first edition of this column.
If it means anything, i didn't desire to point the finger at anyone, I was absent in explanation. let me try this again.
Poetry is the voice of the soul, it's like therapy, it's you thoughts expressed in words, each piece is a unique work of art. The talent you poets wield is sharper than any human sword.WRITE ON!!!
It sickens me to look around and see many poets stapled to audience approval's, their brick wall boxes that bind imagination, stuck like glue to their comfort zones. I see it when i look at my own works, and when I click on a random write.
Don't smother your talent!
light-hearted poets, dare to visit the dark side!
dedicated dark writers, dare to peek at the sun !
Go beyond.
Write.
if someone thinks it's crap:
A) let me know, I'll applaud it with an honest reply
B ) so what, keep writing, it's YOUR poetry!
C) break your box! strengthen the poet within, broaden your comfort zone.
In other words, perform your music.If they throw tomatoes- eat them!
Take something that seems "simple" and give it your depth.
or take something well- layered and tare off the layers like bed sheets!
Go throw poetry around like a ball, (EXPERIMENT!) it just might smack you in the face with its treasures.
(let me know what you think, honest opinion, and if you actually try this out, let me know)
~best wishes all poets~
~keep writing,~
*~sunrise777~*
I've never written a column before, maybe this isn't worth your time. maybe this isn't worth a column even. I'm making it a column anyway - so please enjoy and
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I have only been a part of allpoetry for a few days and have already found many new things to write about. I read works of other people and just think of something and post it. I totally understand what you are trying to say and will continue to write things that I have never before thought of. Thanks for the great column
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I'm sorry to interrupt your journey to my contest, I'll never do it again.
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your persistance in slaughter shows you are stubborn!
I had asked for a critical veiw, no one can provide that.
I know I'm wrong- i'm constintlay wrong- thats why I made the column - for ~improvment~.
This doesn't desrve an argument.
Excuse me, I need to go look at a friends contest
~sunrise777~
Living with it - *rolls eyes*
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I'm stubborn? Your the one insisting you could never be wrong because opinions will never have an effect on you. I don't think you realize what opinions are. If you hate talking about it then stop attacking me for critique. If you ask for a critical review, sunrise, you might get one. Live with it.
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Put it to rest already! I understand, that's why I made the column! you can agree or disagree- doesn't mean anything to me.
insults go nowhere. You knew that, I thought.
open your eyes,
s-t-u-b-b-o-r-n
~sunrise777~
keep writing
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Oh I get it, but I'm not sure you ever will.
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Oh, yes, lot's read it, but I'm not sure they understand -
thanks for commenting- appreciated it so much
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This is very uplifting and encouraging. I'm glad you posted this and hope that a lot of people read it.
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thanks!I'll fix the typos
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That's more like it. Although your b option has turned into an emoticon... and "stuck like glue to their comfort zines" should be stuck like glue to their comfort zones. But definitely an improvement.
Lynn
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thank you but i'm not quite aiming at that. if people sya poetry is the soul, if they just agree to be bound by bars against imagination, and what they're comfortable with, where's the soul in that?
THANK YOU for sharing,
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Crystaldust welcome and thank you for sharing with us your work.
It took me a while to come into the light of AP. I am still growing as a poet and hope to be for many years to come.It is a journey the little voice in my head screamed at me not to take. My muses on the otherhand said you don't even need to pack let's GO! We truely are our own worst critics.Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to read your works! -
Hm, well I do agree that people need to care a bit less about what others think, but still. You can't go on living your life doing the oppiste of what others tell you to do, for that is exactly the same. But there is a diffrence between conformaty and improvment. I have improved immensly from the critiques of others in my poetry. It is still my own, and bares the mark of my soul upon it but without those people who have taught me things I could have never learned on my own, it would be a great deal less. For instance, without this site I would still be forcing rhymes and be blind to freeverse poetry (which is what I actually write the most of now)
Oh well, I hope this does help people realize not to live their lives by what others think, but I bet a few will go overboard and refuse to do anything that others suggest because it would be 'conformity'. Thanks for having honest intentions of improving the world!
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thanks for standing up, crystaldust
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crystaldust 17-01-05 23:13
If you are saying, as I think you are, that we should write poems for our own delight and pleasure, I definitely agree with that. Yes, it's fun for a while to read what people who don't know you think about what you've written. But when the chips are down, as far as I'm concerned, it's what I think of my poetry, whether I wish to keep it or throw it away because it's not good enough, is what counts. Which is why I'm looking very carefully at cliques on this website. There's a great deal of back-scratching going on. I've found about 4 poets who run rings round me, I'm delighted to say, and shall probably find quite a few more. That's a salutary experience even though it has taken me decades before I would call my own bluff and send mine out on to the waters. You won't need to push me beyond the comfort of my talent, because assessing how good a poem is for me is an astringent process. You should see the heaps of rubbish I've disposed of over the years. -
THANK YOU!
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nice!!
well i write for myself, for fun. but its always nice to hear peoples opinions and get compliments. ;-)
i like that phrase "If they throw tomatoes- eat them!" Clever!
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I'm just trying to push poets beyond their comfort with their talent, saying that you can find depth in other writings that aren't vague, layed, but -appear- simple(depth in unexpected places), and that they shouldn't care what the comments sell- not fight a battle of thoughts.
get it?
keep writing,
~sunrise777~
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Faith might be an opion to the agnostics, I always thought Christianity was a FACT and a PROMISE!!!
no, opinios won't ever have an importance to me,
thought you knew that,
keewp writing,
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I know, I'm countering from an agnostic's view. But at the same time, it's your faith that's being categorized as an opinion, and you should be aware of how important opinions really are.
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Yes, I understand, i'm just trying to get poets to not be stapled to their "comfort zone' and audience appluses.
thanks for the feedback
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this is almost humouruos!
being born again is God's promise of faith, not an opinion!That's surrendering your life to God's ways and being spiritually reguvenated.
you knife appeares blunt
~sunrise777~
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Mm, I know the feeling, being able to categorise it so easily usually. But I also agree with not knowing how effective this is. Poetry is meant to be expressive - if you are depressive, writing something "happy" would be fake, and due to that it'd normally end up quite badly, and come off as plastic-y. So hmm... but oh well.
Lynn
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But if opinions REALLY meant nothing to you, then being a born again Christian means absolutely nothing to you. After all, it's just your opinion.
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Why? opinions mean nothing to me!Go ahead and lead the animal activist to my lair, all the more entertainment! *grabs column and steals away with it*- your right, only one poet has been wise enough to dare to burn the boxes and boundries, branch out and reach out - what a shame, only one-
your comment wasn't worthless, i never ended it at that. it's a comment, just an innocent view, an opinion, and i've said befor, opinions mean nothing to me. Thanks for the warning, but the path beyond the danger sign looks so exciting!
~sunrise777~
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Go ahead and do whatever, but you might want to think twice about the crocodiles, the animal rights activists will be all over you
In all seriousness, you missed my point. One poet has been smart enough to see the core of what your saying, that's not always going to happen. So before you decide what I just said was worthless, I suggest you take a second look at what I really said, and what I really mean.
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Effective? I've already made plans to go "slay some croccodiles" with another poet who agrees to throw away popular approval, comfort and "branchless trees" - the art of poetry has more...I need not explain
thanks for the honost comment though!
appreciate the feedback
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Interesting preposal, but I think alot of the poets your trying to "reach" will be offended by your initial comments about depression and blood, even if that's not quite what you meant. Great idea, but I don't know how effective this can be.
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thank you for taking a look at it Aref!
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Well, this is what columns are about! A message to people! Great effort, you seem to make a clear point!
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THANKS windssong - the fisrt to kindly comment on this column and I appreciate your input! YAY! let's slay some croccodiles!
Finally someone else agrees to mess around with poetry. some just try to stick to the favors and neer go beyond that - sad to see stagnint talent. I think you get the message, i need not go further - some poeple are getting really edgy abou this!
i'll head over to your page right now!
~sunrise777~
THANK YOU MUCH!!!
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IT IS!!! that the whole essence of poetry! i just think that some forget to look around and see there's alot more to poetry -
thanks for clicking and commenting-
maybe this wasn't such a great idea after all-
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This is a very good idea, a wise idea, a scarry idea. Most people seem to write what they are confortable with, or hells bells what they think people will really like.
I for one applaud you and will be one of the first to check out your branching out if that's ok with you. Take a look at my stuff and recommend a subject that you think I should try and I'll do the same for you!
Let's jump in feet first and slay some croccodiles! -
yeah, i get it, i do that too sometimes- i'm not trying to point fingers at anyone, just trying to tare down some walls. feedback appreciated- thanks for clicking
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I thought poetry was supposed to be ones lyrical reflection of their soul, huh guess its just me. Either way I agree with you, I wish others would have fun and smile every once in a while too. But if that reflection is dark, so be it, as long as it helps that person escape and make things better, thats whats really important right.
Edited on Jan 16, 11:24 p.m. because ''. -
I don't know.
Hmm, Maybe it's just me, But I don't try to make all my poems "Dark"/"Sad" it tends to happen. I write when I need to excape from a problem, Or an emotion, But that's just me.. Just though I would share.
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