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theLadypoet
Member

since 2001-05-28

Posts 97
Or USA

0 posted 2001-05-30 10:03 PM

Is madness the province of poets?
To be a poet. must you be mad?
Towering doubts – aching insecurities,
these are the price and prize of
our creativity.
What words, these, pushed from
the womb of the mind in
screaming defiance and determination.
Each one suckling at the teat of
its creator.
Refuse to be a poet. Deny, deny,
and the claws of your unfulfilled
thoughts will rake your mind into
furrows, deep and long.
Refuse to be mad. Refuse to
be run through a blender, only to
be spat out minus seeds and pulp.
Turn away and a hill of fire ants
will chew on your brain.
Pretend you live on coffee
and bagels at 3:00am.
Twist tie the poems, burn them.
It won’t matter. The poetry is on
your face in tattoos that speak of
the very thing that haunts you.

ArticulatedSigh
Junior Member

since 2001-05-30

Posts 26

1 posted 2001-05-31 05:27 AM

Mad indeed, as I often say writers are not schizo, we don't have aliases, we have psuedonyms. Well that is my excuse anyway.And surely the word has claimed many a night.

Thanks

For the moment swallows all things blinding our eyes to Heaven.

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

2 posted 2001-05-31 07:27 AM

I really enjoyed your perspective..........

The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
re-language historie

Watersign6
Senior Member

since 2001-05-25

Posts 823
Hurricane,WV

3 posted 2001-05-31 07:30 AM

well Ladypoet your oh so amazing with the way
you get all the right words to do exactly what you want them to-Bravo!

SilentSongs
Junior Member

since 2001-05-31

Posts 43
Mist of Time

4 posted 2001-05-31 07:35 AM

Much the same can be said of all the arts. I know NO sane musicians. None that are any good anyway. Good point, a little madness surely drives us all.

Mendy
Junior Member

since 2000-11-11

Posts 34

5 posted 2001-05-31 09:15 AM

'The poetry is on
your face in tattoos that speak of
the very thing that haunts you'

Well said ! doesn't begin to describe how true this is.

I loved the poem

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

6 posted 2001-05-31 09:43 AM

wow, did you touch me with this one, wow

Alan
Senior Member

since 2000-09-12

Posts 1499
right next door

7 posted 2001-05-31 10:15 AM

you seem to know me well. but i do live on coffee..way too much coffee...great read

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