i want to read it.
but even if you're shy about posting it i'm still curious if you do.
On rare occasion, yes; I prefer to write fiction. The only recent poetry is from a (rather frustrating) class I took last semester. Oh, and an Intro to Creative Writing course I enjoyed. I'll dig some up later.
Johari/Nohari
"Tell someone you love them today, because life is short; shout it at them in German, because life is also terrifying."
Fruit, the fluffy kitty.
I do. I do Creative Writing as part of my degree too. I can't post anything up right now as I'm not sure which bits I'm using for my assignment and they could end up failing me for plagarizing myself. Could maybe PM something.
suffocated in a bubble of time
i can fly but it's the same so why
the graveyard glowed and the ghost appeared
blood splatter on a homoerotic chest
You could write gay poems for Salvation Army, BnD.
Anyhow, I wrote this myself. It's called "Oh Socionics!"
I surrender myself to thee,
and offer my soul for the highest fee
So when time comes I'm going count to three,
stripped of any illusions that have so far befallen me
Night and day, day and night,
I promise to
Work, sing and write just for your delight
stop I won't
To spray, feast and shite even in the absence of light
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Mwahaha.
I haven't in a while.
http://allpoetry.com/poems/by/A%20big%20ail
lol @Vois you remind me of my reaction to hearing Natalie Portman rap and say "I'm gonna sit on your fucking face and take a shit".
~~*-SHOCK-*~~
i write illegitimate haiku by accident on occasion.
I think I LOVE you.Originally Posted by Vois
FUNNIEST PERSON UP IN This Piece.
Onion, onion
Why so big?
If I were an onion,
I wouldn't be so freakin big!
Alas, I'm no onion
Nor fruit, no fig
I'm all of these
A big fat PIG...
move over shel silverstein, @polikujm in da house.
(the trick is--
that you don't.)
keeps it cool.
it's like "did she notice?" "did she see my compliment?"
(no. she didn't.
she's too cool.
to notice.
such trivialities.)
too cool.
for all uh dat.
*hiccup*
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Every time I see you
I think i'm gonna spew
I am bored, so I'll share some stuff. I haven't written a full poem in years, just fragments. Been meaning to get back to it. Here's some of my old poems:
"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I must say dolphin, you've an awesome way with words.
here i am
trynna write a poem
maybe i should drink a moet
what am i doing
am i trying to rap
it shall not go down like dat
i mean that
for this is not a rap
a poem she said
a poem she said
Sure. Helps release stress.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche.
Poem to @lungs
Lungs, your lungs are not my lungs
they are filled with air that you inhale
not me
I was thinking of your old
name
it was LAGHLAGH (I think)
It was so
beautiful
Like something from an ancient
consciousness
or from the unconscious
It also reminded me
of Icelandic phonetics
(cool in it's own way)
but
that's not important now
I'm flying away - goodbye -
on my wings
not lungs
Byebye!
Laff-Laff.
I think an egypitan name would be cool.
Inspired by the fart and poop discussion in chatbox this morning...
Here I sit, I'm at loss
Trying to shit out taco sauce
And when it comes
I hope and pray
It doesn't blow
my asshole away.
You are really fucking weird, you know that?
DDDDDOOOOORRRRRRKKKKKK!
(I drank too much coffee.)
K, I have one.....
Here I sit, brokenhearted
Tried to shit but only farted
Here I sit, in a trance
Tried to fart but shit my pants
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Hmm, Edgar Allan Poe would hire you two when at loss of creativity.
Only in my head.
Yes, and I've been published in pretty minor places and am going to publish in less-minor places in the near future. Someone told me to do an MFA so I can write in poetry journals and magazines for people who have MFAs. I think I might actually do that as long as I don't have to spend a lot more time in school, by which I mean if I can just go on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a year or online and then leave. I don't like the aspect of college that infantilizes students even when they're graduate students who are 35.
I also got nominated as 16t Poet Laureate on my account that's linked to a deleted email address but no one cares about that.
Has anyone here gotten published somewhere where I could read it?
@coeruleum i want to read!
(i used to write but not anymore, i mean i still do but i dont like anything of what i write now.. fffs)
Yes and I'm rather good (though not great, in my view) at it. I posted here what was the third (?) poem I wrote with sincerity but looking back I think it's shit.
I used to, published a poetry book years ago, don't like the book now, but I still give copies to my friends as a gesture of sorts. These days it's more song lyrics, if they're good I can't really say, who cares - they're just there
I’ve written some on and off. Usually makes me go into a weird state. Or maybe the weird state is what drives me there. It’s distracting and has unhealthy associations to me anymore. I have used it to cope with my negative emotions in a cryptic way that way I don’t have to say it outright, so most of it is a little dark and depressing. I know I can write lighter stuff though, because I have. It’s just not where my mind naturally wanders, especially when I turn to poetry lol
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I wrote some in my freshman year of college.. never since then. It was mostly a way for me to work out why people didn't think the same way I did.
@Viktor IMO it has always been kind of niche-y. If you mean infrastructurally then mb yes.
I'm actually considering posting poetry on Facebook, and if I do I'll probably give my Facebook account and personal info to a lot of people here if not just make it public. The only thing stopping me from publishing poetry with wild abandon right now is wondering if I need an MFA to be respected (I also like writing non-poetry but not quite as much,) and if college is broken and just used by WASPs as a workaround for that pesky part of the constitution that doesn't let them get titles, MFAs are probably currently worthless and once college is free I'll be able to find at least one person in the US who will let me into their poetry program even if I already published. There actually doesn't seem to be much of a correlation between arts degrees and artistic accomplishments in the US unlike in countries with free and cheap education where people actually get arts degrees because they want to do art rather than because they want to smoke weed and dress like black and white hipsters. It doesn't even matter if I don't get directly paid for publishing on Facebook or other social media because I own the content and the economy is broken due to college loans anyways. So yes, if I post something, at least a lot of you are getting my social media information so have fun, though I'm not a huge stickler for privacy since I see my life as a book out of habit (I'm also not a stickler for posting every single thing I ever do for the same reason.)
That would probably also stop making people here be a bunch of pretenders if anything would, mostly because no one would want to.
It is hard when you feel like you have something unique to offer the world, but people around you don't acknowledge it or understand it. That being said, whether you have a degree or not is irrelevant unless your satisfaction in writing is determined by the evaluation of other people. Ask yourself: do you believe that your work is good? Or do you need a group of unwitting cheerleaders to praise and flatter you? Or maybe the recognition of cultural gatekeepers and elites? Sometimes cliches have a grain of truth...just write for yourself. You have nothing to prove to anyone save your own pleasure and enjoyment. Comparison is the worst enemy of creativity, and of happiness in general. The groups whose position in life you envy are likely to be bitter and dissatisfied with their lives as well.
...I don't envy anyone since I haven't actually made any decision. That's like dividing by zero. All the MFA people are old and I'm not old. In fact, my not wanting to wait until I'm old is exactly the question. None of my favorite writers have MFAs either, but then, it didn't exist, so again, dividing by zero.
Also, the fact that this site is full of pretender is exactly why your platitudes are meaningless. Of course my satisfaction is largely determined by the evaluation of other people. If you're not autistic or psychotic, you kind of want other people. It's just not determined by the evaluation of any people in particular. That's like saying daydreaming about the Martian soil is sufficient so why bother going to astronaut school? It's, to be blunt, the dumbest argument in all the world.
Know what, @Spermatozoa? How about this: I'll like yours and you like mine. If you don't really like it or I don't really like it, then just consider it "under development." @ashlesha, @ooo, @BandD, @Director Abbie and anyone else, same applies. If you think you don't matter, remember this group is bigger than the English Romantics people know about or the Bloomsbury Group full of people I think are awful like Virginia Woolf.
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