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Hello there fellow South African. Just thought I would drop by.
Dimitri
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i had to read your author page. if you mean what you said about wanting the critiques~i will do the best i can. people sometimes get upset so just take what i say and use what you feel appropriate. i, too, like the honest comments rather than pacifying me. if i wanted/needed that~i shouldn't be writing. thank you and how do you like South Africa? i have only been to the US and Mexico so i am curious about your country. 
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Oh wow how awesome! You live in S.A? I wish I lived there, that would be so cool. I wanna travel the world, so I plan on going there sometime.
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It's only 19 pages in word
I can't enter prewritten poems because it is a story contest, the poems I've written doesnt show up, otherwise I would have entered another story classified as a poem.
Just try the last on I entered, maybe you'll get hooked 
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I don't mind poems at all in the contest
Ok? ok
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well... the story you just entered is really intimidating... it's like a full novel... I think that that is exactly what it is...
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Thank you very much for letting me know, I really appreciate it.
Maybe I'll enter after all, just because you went to all this trouble.
Thanks!
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Okay, I understand. I just wanted to be sure you were aware of it. Also, there was feedback from Seeds of Light on that contest and they are giving away DVD's to the people that entered. I believe they are in South Africa now, so if you want a DVD you can go to the link again and pull the email address from it and send them an email. Also, this was published in Zimbabwe and on the South African Independent Radio. allpoetry.com/Poem/1755935
I wish you the very best. Take Care.
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Did you see my contest where the winner receives a gold membership and then there are two silver memberships being awarded as well? Here it is:
allpoetry.com/Contest/1741092
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Wow, fraeky, I just posted a comment on a contest refering to that poem, that is why I was confused by your post, I thought you were refering to that...LOL my apologies 
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Indeed I do, did I misspel it, I was in a hurry when I typed it.
And yes my mother language is afrikaans
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The "Second Coming" you refer to... I take you are referring to W.B. Yeats? Mother tongue Afrikaans?
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Thanks for the advice I wrote God with a capital. Also thanks for the nice compliment.
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I do not really understand the reason forthis whole speech, maybe I said somethign that brought it on? (I forget easily these days)
I'll keep it to read it again later.
Thank you for the comment on my poem, I'll return it towards or during the weekend 
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I stopped by to return a favor, and before moving on to read the poetry read that you are a 19 year old female. As best as I understand the term, this almost requires you to be a lady, girl, woman or some other noun relating to our particular species, whether for better or worse. If you are a female of some other species please disregard my comment. But if you are human you deserve more respect than is accorded by a generic reproductive role. Most likely I am addressing a young lady with all the fineness that entails. My upbringing tells me so. It seems wrong to me that anyone should ever allow themselves to be disrespected, even by themselves. Now on to read your poetry.
Peace,
~RJ~
It's ok if you delete this remark... the male/female thing is just a pet peeve of mine. People who forget their nobility are just more prone to do lesser and indeed inhumane things. Too much disrespect going around these days. Now stepping down off soap box.
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Your an awesome poet... Love your stuff... Great stuff!!! Fanfreakingtastic... Lol Write more!
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Where in SA are you from? Im from Verinaging.shit I probely spelt that wrong but I always do...
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I know I have a problem with my spelling, easily explained by the fact that English is not my first language. The reason I place so much emphasis on correct spelling is first of all because it is very important in the art of writing, and second of all this site does have a spell checker.
People seem not to use it, because it is easies to just rattle of a piece.
Oh an by the way, don't take a straight and honest comment as not being nice, I was being nice when I commented on your story.
If honesty hurts, look for the problem elsewhere.
I could tell you that your story is awesome and the best I have ever read, but that would not be true, and you would never be able to grow as a writer
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First of all you need to get a spelling book because you're the one that sucks at spelling. Second of all is that you need to be nicer to other people. Some people might take it the wrong way!
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South African  Afrikaner had a sensitive meaning to it these days.
thank you for your new years wishes, also a wonderful new year for you and your family.
Thank you for the advice, I really appreaciate it!
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Happy New Year, my Afrikaaner or South African friend:
I hope that you, your friends and family are well.
Don't ever get discouraged. Study. Read the great poets. Read more and more. Recite the ones that really touch you. Listen to others recite. Learn what is good, and what isn't good. Don't ever give up something that is your dream. Remember your dreams. What are they? Write them down.
Tarik "Abu Ziyad" Creighton
formerly Corporal Creighton
Alpha Company, 11th Engineers Bn,
"Junglecats! Forward!"
Third Infantry Division,
Fort Stewart, Georgia
cafegroundzero.blogspot.com
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I've heard about the song and the band, I might have heard the song before, I'm not sure.
I rarely know more about a band than their name and some of their songs so yea
Happy new year to you to
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South Africa, eh? One of my favorite songs came from South Africa, "Master Jack" by "Four Jacks & A Jill". Are you familiar with it? I wish I had a cd of their songs. They were very good. I wonder whatever happened to them. I will try to look around, but it might not be for a day or two until I get caught up on other things.
Happy New Year.
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 I know how happy it makes me if people comment on my poetry. And yes I really think that it is a really good poem,.  Have a wonderful new year!
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Thank you for your most humble, thoughtful and heartfelt comments my friend, they were much appreciated and quite touching I must say! Wow...do u really think it's all that worthy..to be hung in the homes of family and stuff..that is quite a compliment, THANK u so much..and I think I just might take ur advice on switching that, "often" and "much" around, as many have suggested the same...thank u so much for the input and thank u so much for stopping by..Have a wonderful new year!
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Hi. I feel you about not having many friends in real life or on allpoetry.
I'm off to look at your contests...
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What you read was one of my worst writes, wish you read something else like : A prisonner of bodies " or "Before you my love", well anyway thanks for reading it , and keep up the good work.
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i'm guessing you commented my poem twice on two different usernames...well thank you for your comments.
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I'll let you know. Just have to work up some more points first
We did Hamlet in school actually.
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if you have that contest. and i "think" i know what it will be. lol. let me know. i have a very sad poem i wrote about ophelia of hamlet that ive never even caught a cold for on this site that it just irks me cuz everyon always says how beautiful it is.
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I appreciate your critique. It is essential for me to grow as a poet/artist =]
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Hehehe thanks 
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wow
I like that photograph...i need new ones.
But you look really pretty
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beautiful page, your a beautiful girl
and quite a talented poetess... 
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Hey, nothing much is up with me...i really like your poetry though, especially Jerrynm.
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i like your page it is very up front and honest.
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oh I really like your page! Did you leave vertigang?
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Thanks  now I only need people to start liking my poems 
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Edited on Dec 04, 3:32 p.m. because ''.
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Hi sycho warrior, I just wanted to let you know I just hit a milestone!! Check out my "Quadruple Acrostic" called Racecar.
later gator 
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hey,i was reding your "biography" at the top, an it seems like your a pretty cool person. if you have msn, or aim messenger you should consider sending me your screen name so we can chat some time.
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I guess I can be expecting two entries from you then since my contest is so simple.
With the top to bottom and the bottom to top does not mean that first and last has to be the same or anything like that.
I didnt even say that it has to be the same. Please at least read the contest instuctions properly before simply shooting it down
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Sorry, apologies for a typo in the fourth line of my pseudo-Icelandic 'Rimur'... It should, of course, be "reading critics' jibing'.
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Your competitions sound interesting.... though rather too simple to be a real challenge...
I am not clear however whether the poem which reads the same way top to bottom and bottom to top means that simply that the last line is the same as the first line, the penultimate line the same as the second line, the antepenultimate the same as the third line etc... or whether it is that the last word is the same as the first word... as was a fashion for a time in mediaeval Iceland? I give here an example which I once wrote to illustrate the Icelandic verse-form (2 quatrainn, with line-length, rhythm, rhyme and alliteration duly reproduced.)Not much sense to it... but that was also true of the Icelandic productions...
Crazy poets driving dreams,
Dismal, circumscribing,
Mazy stanzas, rhythmic reams,
Reading critic's jibing.
Jibing critics reading reams,
Rhythmic stanzas mazy,
Circumscribing dismal dreams
Driving poets crazy.
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Thanks a lot  YOur poems are just as good!
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