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Flitzy on July 1Thank you for passing by and your opinion about the piece (voices). Absolutely, we get stronger and learn from what we go through, no matter what some say? Thanks so much
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Harrisham Minhas on May 17
You are the current Featured Member of Visions through Haiku!
Harrisham Minhas
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PandorasBox on April 19Just wanted to drop a hello on your page...your writing is beautiful and your page itself is a wonderful inspiration. God Bless always!
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Sandygram : Stopping to say hello. Hugs and Smiles on May 26, 2008
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midnightblue1272 : Hi on May 20, 2008Thought I'd drop you this line on the guest book. Thanks for your kind words. Peace & love!
Your friend,
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Sandygram : Have A Beautiful Mother's Day My Friend on May 10, 2008
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Sandygram : Hope your day is beautiful!!! on March 27, 2008
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x-Black-Butterfly-x on March 27, 2008i loves and miss you sis
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K-Dense on March 10, 2008Print a number of your favorite poems in a book format (Microsoft Word has such a feature), print them, and them make photo-copies and staple them at a copy store. Get a techno-savy friend to help you.
"Fortune favors the bold"-Marcus Aurellius.
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K-Dense on March 5, 2008Ann-
Don't search for publishers, publish your own chapbook. It'll save you so much more time.
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x-Black-Butterfly-x on March 5, 2008love you sissy sorry I didnt reply to your message last night i fell asleep and when I woke up I didnt really talk to anyone. Ill miss you but ill be here as always and i can write now
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K-Dense on March 4, 2008It goes...yourself?
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SongOfSilence on March 3, 2008(sorry im postin here.. my msging doesnt work -.-) well, anyway.. thanks for msgn me.. and.. yeah, simon n G. are old
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quack : Love Rhianna on February 28, 2008
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imahealer on February 26, 2008Anna marie,
I love your user name. As a teenager, I sang folk songs and one was "Ananaisis" I never knew the meaning ( I was young) but I sang it so soulfully. Ot was first recorded by Odetta, am American Indian, and it was the song I always got the greatest applause. Now I know why!
Wonderful person,wonderful heritage!
Shana
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quack : I Love You Mum on February 14, 2008
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quack : I Love You Mum on February 11, 2008
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K-Dense on February 5, 2008I'm evolving. Yourself?
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Wolf Mistress on February 5, 2008Hi sweetie
Thnxs for the wonderful comment you left me on my page
I read your notes here and they made me smile
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K-Dense on January 8, 2008Happy and prosperous 2008 to you too Annie!
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Pete Greenslade on December 23, 2007a very merry christmas to you and your family dear anna. enjoy the new year xxx peter
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Passionate Phoenix on December 7, 2007my home computer is broken atm so I can't access MSN they're still not sure what is wrong with him just yet, he has been given so many pain killers he's not aware of what's going on around him. I am visiting him tonight, as I had to work last night. thanks for asking, take care and thanks for entering my contest xx
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Passionate Phoenix on December 6, 2007thank you for the love, although my mum and I whilst we are hopeful he will be ok, we know that there is a strong possibilty that he won't get better, as he is already terminally ill anyway and our doctor told us that he doesn't have too long left only last week. I would take the day off, but there is so much work we're doing in class that is not easy to catch up with, my computer is already broken at home atm, so I can't catch up at home. :S life is so complicated for me atm xx
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raggyann on November 28, 2007to a beautiful and sweet soul
with a warm heart
just stopping by to tell you hello and hope you have peace and harmoney
much love to you my friend
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Sean Logue : A star. on November 13, 2007Read this poet, I did and my hair grew back in five minutes!
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Sandygram : Heres A Big Smile for you. Bless you. on November 11, 2007
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poeticweaver : Hi there, on November 8, 2007Just sending ya some love!
Peace to you and yours, your friend.
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Pete Greenslade : Dear Anna on October 28, 2007I am so honoured to be your brother dear...with you i feel i belong ,,blessings xx peter
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K-Dense on October 24, 2007Another poem to analyze. Remember, don't read it, SEE IT.
Also, a quote to consider: "Poetry is not a hobby, it's a force."-Bob Holman
Keep that quote in mind.
-C
No Soup Kitchens For Starving Artists
By Kim Johnson
There have never been soup kitchens for starving
artists,
Musicians are doctors without borders,
And when a writer dies, it is so quiet, you can hear
their pen drop.
Tonight I've got a fat lady locked in a music box,
And there is a cypher going on at the corner of 24th
and Mission,
That reminds me of the purity of music and poetry.
This city is built on distractions,
She doesn't owe anyone her attention.
I see your fresh faces as a pumpkin patch,
My pen has yet to cave expressions in.
And I would jump through hoop ear rings to get you to
listen.
So I step out of the crowd,
Become a shadow puppet under the streetlight,
Stare up into the heavens as they unfold into a fan of
peacock feathers,
Creating just enough breeze for these paper crane
notebook pages,
To float off my tongue in the thousands.
In a world that aborts webbed fetuses, I've survived
in the womb of surrealists.
Today I'm taking all the dreamers on a field trip to
the unicorn farm.
What if I told you that a siamese twins dying wish,
Is to have a zipper tattooed on his skin,
And that I only shoot myself in the foot when I wear
bunny slippers?
That passion is running out of glue and busting a nut
on your project
Because you can't wait to finish.
That both art and orgasms can be out of body
experiences?
If you paddle out far enough,
You can seen the reflections of gods in the earths
punchbowl.
And it's the closest I've ever come to walking on
water.
Even when it's low tide and tough to couch surf,
I've pounded toenails into the pavement,
To hang air fresheners in armpit towns,
And watch cactuses embrace their 5 o'clock shadow.
I've followed the holes in my heart to the other side
of the world.
Remember, even when life is rabbit with a missing
foot,
This earth, is still a Dalmatian in the realm of
beauty marks.
We are a generation of skunks who have been baptized
in tomato juice,
And it is time to reclaim our essence.
This will be a night of sangria and Santeria.
A moment where your finger can door belly dance
In anticipation of what's possible.
Musicians have always been doctors without borders.
Pick up a seashell off the beach in Florida,
And you can hear the soft whaling of trumpet in
Havana.
Press your ear to an MC's chest ,
And you can hear their heart beatboxing.
I've felt like Linus all these years
Holding Jimi Hendrix like an electric blanket.
Knowing that inside out headphones can become
Megaphones.
Tonight we are two peas in an iPod taking in the
city from this rooftop.
Using mix CDs to teach collages to teach collages the
blind.
I was born in a quicksand box,
With a penny jar for my thoughts,
And taught that the heart is a two way mirror to
freedom.
So if you're going to hang an artist to a cross,
Don't bother to give them tetanus shots,
Because I've seen archers, disguised as martyrs,
Shoot down strange fruit from heavens orchards,
And know that when my ancestors passed,
They weighed their hearts against a feathered head
dress.
There have never been soup kitchens for starving
artists,
Because hunger is what drives us.
Tonight I prey to the Salvador Dalai Lama to release
the chains of writer's block,
So I can write a poem that's going to levitate us all
off this street corner.
Because when I die, I want it to be so quiet,
That you will hear my pen...
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x-Black-Butterfly-x on September 30, 2007weeeeeeee sorry i saw your profile on an old friends..who im trying to apologize to and noticed...we share the same amazing ap mum
he he
well thats my randomness for today
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quack on September 30, 2007mum i wrote a poem for you and its called my guardian angel. i just want to say i love you and you really are a angel for real. i love you loads and hugggggs you tight love from rhi xxx
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Laura Lamarca : Thanks for the mention on September 29, 2007
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PassionsPromise on September 29, 2007Hello my sweet just wanted to spread some love here.
Thank you so much for reading me and I know i will enjoy reading you. Be well and be blessed and do stay in contact.
My Angel,
from Tory
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K-Dense on September 29, 2007Sure. I just hope you realize I'm actually 23. lol
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Pete Greenslade on September 25, 2007Always attentive to the needs of poets around her.a great inspiration.sincere full of depth and a jolly good poet as well bless
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Amera : Thank you on September 21, 2007I stopped by to put some love on your page
Thank you for the things, you do for others
Your heart and wisdom is that of a sage
Thanks from your AP sisters and brothers
Don’t ever think that your work goes unseen
You’re a star above stars, we love you for this
Don’t ever think what you do is routine
You give us the hope and you give us bliss
If anyone asks, please let it be said
Break out the news and let it be spread
There’s no bigger heart in England you see
Than the heart that belongs to Anna-Marie
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Pete Greenslade on September 17, 2007i love your poems on nature and the coastlines ,a pleasure
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sleepysmile3 on September 12, 2007k-dense is awesome!
how dare you include me with those wonderful poets! eee!!!
<3,
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K-Dense on September 12, 2007After browsing through your work, I have seen much improvement. However, I wonder(and I say this with with no malice), if you took my advice reading the poets I told you check out. If not, I drastically re-iterate that you put the follwoing names into a search on google, MySpace, wikipedia, YouTube, et cetera:
Rachel McKibbens
Buddy Wakefield (go to www.buddywakefield.com and skim the entries in his journal)
Jeffery McDaniel
The allpoetry poet whose address is www.allpoetry.com/poets/sleepysmile3
and lastly, Bucky Sinister.
In general, I want you to remember this:
In the game of show and tell, showing is the poets' game. Leaving storytelling to storytellers.
Try to stay away from common-place/cliche words like "pain" or "soul," and attempt to use more adjectives in your description. You can be pained by a pinprick and a nuclear bomb. The key is to make sure your readers know the difference.
For instance, saying "When I was born, I gave my mother's body a lot of trouble" is far different than "I came out of my mother like a dancing bullet" (a line by New York poet Aja Monet).
Note the imagery. Note the action. Note the sentence structure: "I came out [action verb] of my mother like a dancing [adjective] bullet [noun]" Try to get more "[adjective] [nouns]."
When you read more McKibbens, Wakefield, et cetera (or re-read, as the case may be), read each poem five times and dissect what you like about each lines. Ask yourself, "Why do I like this line/image/word use, et cetera?" Once you've figured out why you like it, STEAL THE TECHNIQUE AND USE IT FOREVER. (Note caps.)The same goes with writers of novels, memoirs, et cetera. THE MORE YOU READ THE MORE TECHNIQUES YOU CAN STEAL. Even if you don't like an author/poet's work, MAKE NOTE OF WHAT THEY DO THAT DISAGREES WITH YOU, AND AVOID THAT TECHNIQUE.
Only after understanding the techniques of your peers, can you adapt their ideas and tweek them into your own style.
As an exercise, I want you to read the poem "The Beautiful Ones" on this site, which you can find through http://allpoetry.com/NonaLeona
Note how the author NEVER says "I was scared and sad," she instead presents the situation and her reactions to it. Only a cold-hearted monster would not realize that "This is sad poem." But you know what? NEVER does the author say "This situation was sad" or "I was sad." Why? Because the situation speaks for itself; that is, she SHOWS INSTEAD OF TELLS.
Criticism notwithstanding, keep up the good work.
Remember, every poem you read, read it five times.
-C
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CarolDesjarlais on September 8, 2007Welcome to AP, jump in and swim for all you are worth...the water's fine..make your splash.
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poeticweaver : Welcome~ on September 7, 2007Thanks for your comment on my poem, and I'm happy you enjoyed the one I left you as well! I'm glad you share your poetry here, and I shall add ya to my favs, so that I may keep tabs on your works.
Keep on penning on, much love and light!
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rosepoet : Welcome to AP on September 2, 2007Thanks for visiting my poem
I read you bio and felt quite emotional. I can imagine how you pull through. Here is the best place for you. In no time you will feel totally renewed.
Have a nice day 
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K-Dense on August 30, 2007Just post your works as poems on this site. I put you on my favs list, so I'll see them after they are posted. If there's any specific work you want my say on, bring it to my attention, and I'll gladly comply.
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K-Dense on August 29, 2007The best way to familiarize yourself with foreign terms ("chip-wich") is to look them up in a google or wikipedia search. Always strive to learn. The more you learn/know, the more you give yourself to write about.
I'm giving you a few assignments: 1) I want you to write a image-heavy persona poem and 2) I want you to research poem forms (pantoum, sestina, and sonnet are good starters) and 3)I want you to research the history of poetry slam and tell me about a slam poet that you found whose work you really liked, and why their work appealed to you.
Take as long as you like. My intent is that this will lead you to other work that will inspire you.
But still, make sure you read the work of poets I suggested in the previous message.
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K-Dense on August 27, 20071) ALWAYS copyright your work. The easiest way to do this is to type work in Microsoft Word. Put a Capital C between an open and closed parenthesis, (that is, a (, and a ) ), and the program will format it for you. This may not be an official copyright, but it impresses potential publishers and dissuades others online from stealign your work.
2) Don't ever wait for publishers. Self-publish your own work in a chapbook (paperback) format. The simplist way to do this is to type up you work in a page format and staple books yourself. Include a brief author's bio and whatever art/photos you desire. Some include a table of contents. It might not hurt to make a spoken word album as well.
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K-Dense on August 27, 2007Unfortunately, unlike what Vic told you, I don't actually write music, sorry.
However, I can give you exceptional counsel as a writer (I confess I have yet to read your work, but I will browse as soon as I get the chance).
Bottom line: The easeist way to become a better poet is to read/hear poetry. The more poetry you expose yourself to, the more your own writing style will evolve as you unconsciously incorporate elements of the work created by your favorite authors/poets.
I tend towards image-heavy stuff in vain of Jeffrey McDaniel, Rachel McKibbens, Buddy Wakefield, et cetera, but can just as easy expoound Hip-Hop-like rhyme forms. Let every type of poetry and literature (including journalistic non-fiction) influence you, even if you don't care for it.
I recommend checking out the following sites: www.gotpoetry.com, www.livepoets.com and www.podslam.org
By all means also feel free to read my allpoetry profile as well as some/any/all of my works posted on this site.
Stay well, I'll be around should ever you wish to ask me anything.
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Starz of Heaven : Welcome to Allpoetry on August 26, 2007
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vici377 : New Welcome on August 26, 2007love your style.. love to read other's work..hope to read yours for a long time.. good luck and welcome again to the ap site..
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