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on my writing: old poems vs. new

a conversation about my poetry spurred off of "We Need To Be Together", my first gold winning poem in 4 years. Read bottom to top.1

Daniela Violin
3 minutes ago 2

No, nothing is wrong with fantasy.
Really I shouldn't say fantasy, more like fiction (or what I thought was fiction) but when I looked over my poems I had written from years back I found truths in them I hadn't noticed and I now understand why I wrote them. The ones in which I couldn't pinpoint a reason got scrapped because those tended to be badly written so I find I write better now having much more life experience then when I started and the ability to be honest with myself and pinpoint a reason why I wrote something. I won't write something just for the sake of writing it anymore. Also, I am a lot more picky about the poetry I read and some of the poems I read and commented on years ago (that I thought were amazing) are now sort of bland to me because I associate with better writers now. 3

perfectsunset4

Hmm very interesting,
and yes.. a poem seems
to have more strength
in terms of flow/depth
when it is written from
angles of truth. 5

though, there's nothing
wrong with fantasy 6

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Daniela Violin
17 minutes ago
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It's cause all my new ones have truth woven in, and that's the vantage point I'm writing from now, whereas a lot of my old ones were fantasy or fantasy that somehow later became truth but not before it got written. 9

perfectsunset
23 minutes ago
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Hmm.. not sure who you'd get
that from.. *rolls eyes* lol 11

But I can't wait to see all
the fresh writes comin
hun, they're gonna rock!!12

The old ones are very good
don't get me wrong, but it's
nice to see you develop your skills
so brilliantly as you have already
being back on here egain 13

Daniela Violin
27 minutes ago
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"You're getting more abstract in your pieces"
Hmm, wonder where I could have learned some of that from.
Thanks hun.
I'm done posting old pieces
It'll all be new stuff from here on 15

perfectsunset
31 minutes ago
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This was brilliant and one of
your best writes to date.
I LOVE it.. your getting more
abstract in your pieces and
I'm liking it a lot.. soo many
good word usages and metaphors
here, and very creative storyline.17

Congrats on a well-deserved gold

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