Poetry Forum Guidelines

I don't mean to butt in, but I've read what you all have to say, and I haven't been to this forum for a while, but I remember reading some of sylvanlightnings, kittenx, and kidder's peices. I've posted a lot at once, because I haven't been on here in a while, and I've written a lot, so I wanted to share a few. So, I just wanted to clear that up. Not trying to be on the front page. peace&love

 

It's late, and I have to work in the morning, but now look what you've all done. I have been reading this and have decided to say something about it all. So here's what I think about all of this-


I look to this forum, as free speech. A place where people can express their ideas, experiences, anger, desires, fear, fantasies, beliefs, disbeliefs, feelings, whenever they feel them; into this great big ocean of thoughts. Completely exposing themselves. Naked, in this great big ocean. People strip themselves, and share what's underneath to all of us, and we share the same respect.

I think that it shouldn't been so analized...When I post something, I'm not like, "Oh yes I want everyone to see me on the screen." I just don't think about it too much, I write something and then I post it.

But to get right down to it, I feel as if everyone's inspiration deserves it's very own page. I think it's all going to be alright. Poetry is beautiful in all of it's forms. All of them. peace&love

p.s. I believe that I have given an example of this controversy tonight with my postings. My apologies.

 

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i just wanted to come in here and introduce myself. i am mostly in the private forum, but i run my own site and forum also. I just wanted to say anybody can write no matter if you think its horrible or not. My dad (who i take after) will re write things over and over till he knows that its how he wants it to be. But i know that anybody who has a face hands feet legs arms etc is able to write..(i work with handicapped children) i write whenever i have time or however... that also goes for singing to, you can also have the worst singing voice but sound like Whitney houston after a few years. I just wanted to come in here and tell a few people.. Thats all.


Cheers
PG

 

Thank you for sharing your work.

 

I'm personally glad you decided to share your feelings.

 

thank you sylvan And so am I.

 

Yes Dear,
You have been most kind to me in the past, and it was only
the dormant state my com., as well as I have been that I've not been
around to say hi, or reply, I don't believe I've ever had any ONE say
negitive/nasty things I've written in the past, and still I've read some
great emotions here, I've laughed, and some may have once, or thrice,
made me swollow hard if it was truly heart felt, I felt for them, as for
myself, I've refrained from making anyone feel bad by writting negitively,
I find all that accomplishes is both the writer and myself feel bad.
Now that I'm up and running for now anyway, I'll be around for good
reading, and will attempt equal writting's, and nothing like a little Neil Young
unplugged to set the mood too..Peace all.
Devon Knight ~ Icurus

 

now i know exactly whatcha mean

 

(((((( Devon ))))))))
Seems like eons! I've been in and out with computer woes lately. Hard to read on a monitor going thru a death throe.
This post was written some time back when the poetry forum was getting a barrage of posts from people bitching and making rude accusations because they weren't getting the attention they believed was due to them. Sylvan made it a sticky because it always seems to crop back up from time to time, the occational "genius" that only got a few responses for their ten posted poems that were so much better than this or that persons....pfft~
The poetry was taken from my heart and soul for awhile and was even having trouble reading any except for a few like my beloved Frost who are more like old friends to me but luckily wounds heal when you don't pick the scabs. Glad to be back myself!

 

i like to see people who keep their poems together in a thread. to me poems are fleeting and can be lost if you dont keep them together in a group. i have a thread in here but its about 50 pages back because i havent had any inspiration for a looong time. But if i was ever inspired, i'd go drag that thread out of my history and keep on writing in it. just to keep it all together. the more prolific writers, i think they should write in one or two threads also. jus' because, thats how i like it...

 

is it allowed to post a poem who isnt your own?????????

 

Logically, it would deem that Yes,
It is allowed,
Just give credit to the Poet.
Don't try to say something's yours, that's fucked up.
If you want to pose,
progress yourself to the image
you are so desperate to conceive.

Ah, not that I'm directing that toward you or anything,
Just saying

 

I would prefer it if they were individually posted- that way you know what poem the feedback goes with

 

"Zealous enough to anger in my attempts at trying,
causing sounds that soothe, and satisfied sighing,
read it for what it is, don't be affraid,
muse over the meaning, and the sound that it made,
ink and the path that it chooses, simple quilled thoughts
of one that muses....."

 

How many of you revise and revise your poems as you would do with say, a story?


Or do you believe that good poetry can be written in a moment and doesn't need the same level of revision you would give any other ficitional work?


I think I used to believe that if I wanted to write a good poem it had to be in a moment...that the moment would give me the inspiration for the whole poem, not a basic frame work.

Now, I like the idea of revising a lot. I like the idea of tightening a poem so it becomes minimal in a sense, and fits neatly in a well thought out framework. I like the idea of few words concealing great meaning and complexity. And, in my opinion, this comes with revisions.

 

I agree. Writing is like any other art form; in that every single second you're doing it, you're just that much better than you where before. I enjoy looking back at my earlier work, and usually do keep my first drafts around, but that doesn't mean I don't revise and change and scribble things out or add things in.

My problem is over-analyzing stuff and thus changing it or rewriting it until it just stops making sense.

 

Everything I write I write in the moment. If I write something it is usually done within a few seconds. If not I usually give up and completely delete everything.

Inspiration for me is momentarily.

 

Both, but most of the time they need revision. Sometimes just little nudges to make the flow or meter or whatever better, sometimes I'll chop lines or stanzas, or add some.

Then sometimes I write poems just flat out and they come out pretty good.

 

It depends on the poem. Some are written in a fit of inspiration and remain like they were in the very beginning, others are revised - I look at them and continue or improve it a bit by adding a few lines or changing others.