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StayingPower
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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject: Anyone Here Feel Better or. . . |
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Do you feel worse whenever you write poetry and someone critiques it? Just wonder, since I've dabbled in poetry, thought it a good way to pass time. Then I joined a forum called 'Eratosphere', another 'Everypoet.com' Both pretty much lambasted me, although Eratosphere offered less negative criticism.
Anyways, I find writing poetry something that's just too self-defeating and demeaning, in some respects. A lot of literateurs out there. I don't get the science behind much of poetry either.
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bluetortilla
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I've written several thousand poems, a few have been published, and I avoid criticism like the plague. Consider all the classic novels that were rejected over and over only to be published posthumously or many years later. Write for yourself, and if you don't love it, don't do it. Who cares what others think? They'll like your stuff or they won't. 'Critical' forums are for wusses.
Kingfisher--
Three dives and
She sits on the bank
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bluetortilla
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| now i can't get rid of of this huge leticular cloud image! i deleted it in settings! |
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BigWally
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Location: Ottawa, CAN (prev. Kaohsiung "the Dirty South")
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| try replacing it with a smaller picture |
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trukesehammer
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: Re: Anyone Here Feel Better or. . . |
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| StayingPower wrote: |
Do you feel worse whenever you write poetry and someone critiques it?
...Anyways, I find writing poetry something that's just too self-defeating and demeaning, in some respects. A lot of literateurs out there. I don't get the science behind much of poetry either.
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"Opium-eating beatniks set us out to graze
And torture poor sex and death twenty thousand ways..."
Poetry? Umm, yeah, I dabble in it from time to time but I've given up on the critics --who are usually other poets. But what am I talking about? I don't even consider myself a poet anymore! I got so turned off by that snooty, backstabbing tribe (most of whom write snooty, esoteric tripe) that I changed my title to "novelist."
Just between you and me (and the zillions of other readers in this forum) there is no science behind contemporary poetry. It's a free-for-all, much like riding a scooter in Downtown Tainan during rush hour.
My best advice: write for yourself and maybe a close circle of friends. And keep your poetry as specific and evocative as possible. |
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Dr_Zoidberg
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I've always liked Haiku.
Blue Tortilla, use Photoshop.
Your avatar is too big.
The moderators will ban you. |
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bluetortilla
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not too big now?
tried photoshop actually but couldn't get the darn thing up on the net.
mountain songbird--
stunted trees
on the windswept ridge
looking forward to those mountains in taiwan...
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