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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! 
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...Why we write?! I would dearly love to read personalized responses in any regular poetic form, or 'Prosetry' (prosaic poetry), or 'Poetrose' (poetic prose) to the above! |
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TomMark Member Elite
since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133LA,CA |
I write For THAT single tear that was already dried before I cry. I write For That strongest emotion that every song failed to express. I write For the purest love that it is too delicate to address. My first try. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Wonderful reply, poet TomMArk! |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
I write because the world tells me to. It screams whispers and sometimes even picks up my hand and guides. It brings me gifts for my amusement like sudden spring weather in winter or just one single color that does not leave my head for days (sometimes even years) I write because one day this world decided to walk through my eyes unblurred and uninhibited and told me it had given me a great gift and that I simply must write. "...buried way beneath the sheets |
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Earl Robertson Senior Member
since 2008-01-21
Posts 753BC, Canada |
I write For all I've ever known and to understand what I have sown For every emotion that slithers in my breast With a tongue to descibe was I blest All you wish to know I have put in poem Describing indescibable from the comfort of my home "Be Strong and Always Remember what made you you." Earl "Ooo!!! Ooo!! I know! I know! um...he he" Earl (Yes I am crazy) |
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TomMark Member Elite
since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133LA,CA |
A brush of dream A palette of rainbow Each of my ten fingers screamed at them: NO! A voice of nightingale Notes of angelical led My single tongue twirled in silence and pretended dead. An orchestral of Spring A stage of heaven My limbs flew away in wings and my mind was leavened My lonely heart cried words Into digital coin sorter each was weighed and wrapped and deeply buried Then who else beside the sense of pain took my breath into print? [This message has been edited by TomMark (02-09-2008 09:59 PM).] |
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Michyla Junior Member
since 2008-02-06
Posts 15qld, australia. |
i write to tell the world of their own mistakes to show them they have too much at stake. i write to let it be known just the way it is and not to fail to write like this. i write when everything seems to cause such heartache when life gets confusing and all it does is take. i write for all you people that seem to care 'cause without you i'd feel so bare. the sun is for the days.. the moon for the nights.. but you are forever. |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
It's a stirring against my breast thing, as if thoughts are trying to find freedom. It's soul melding with dark of night and basking in sun on ice. It's being led by one word down a road of poetic expression. And it's waking up under the moon shining through the skylight and capturing memories of a dream. It's seeing dogs frolicing in the snow, faces pushed deep, following a scent. It's my Mother's laughter calling to hold this moment hostage forever. It's the afterglow of a dance shared, fingers linked, faces close in conversation. And it's simply need demanding satiation, pictures that must be painted, and stories only told in a poem. ... Alison [This message has been edited by Alison (02-10-2008 10:33 PM).] |
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RenaissanceRomanceRunsRed Senior Member
since 2007-06-11
Posts 1062In Love <3 |
Why I Write (2/9/08) I write for it is reason That I should leave something behind I write to escape this treason The one for which I’m tried I write for every child Who yet has to discover That though they may be mild They are artists undercover I write because it speaks to me The thoughts within my mind Because of all the plaintive things That I’ve left undefined |
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TomMark Member Elite
since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133LA,CA |
With a single drop of water in ocean You made a storm over the mountain And you flooded the universe with a touch of dried fountain of thousand years I can't, so I write in words.  |
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effjayel Senior Member
since 2007-09-30
Posts 1474At the Crossroads of Infinity |
I wish I could accept this challenge I really,really do But try as I might Can't explain why I write 'Tis just something I have to do... |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I can't seem to get past TomMark's reply. IWIHWT.... |
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TomMark Member Elite
since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133LA,CA |
My dear lady Sunshine, can't embarrass me like this!!!! As if I know not how well you write. I am not even 1/100 percent gifted as sir Balladeer. But I can write clearer that Sir Brad (it does not matter mine is not good) |
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Dee Member Elite
since 2000-08-19
Posts 2330Queensland, Australia |
Poetry Soothes a lost soul, remembers loves past and dreams of what's to come Stand straight and tall, not the reflection as others see you, but as you truely are. Clearwater |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
I thought that I'd also leave the link here to my contribution, "A Poet's Hand" /pip/Forum105/HTML/000702.html Great challenge, Bruce! Love & Poet Light, Linda  |
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Dr.Moose1 Member Elite
since 1999-09-05
Posts 3448Bewilderment , USA |
Because of Something More Here is this in its' stead for what I'll never write, whose attempts to be told have been frittered away. A lament I would voice to acknowledge this fact, I believe after that, there'd be no more to say. Yet this paradox fuels every stroke of the pen, each a piece to a puzzle I'd hoped to complete, knowing well that to flirt with the source of the fire is to risk being scorched and consumed by its' heat. So we dance, and at times we are shown in its' glow as a vision unfolds to a curious eye. Just a fragment that glints, never becoming whole, and we question ourselves as the time passes by, feeling always as if we are right on the brink of defining this world, and ourselves, with mere ink. |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
/main/forumdisplay.cgi?action=displayarchive&number=89&topic=000456 don't know what else to say.... |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Here's a poem that I posted a few years back and thought that it might appropriate for your challenge. I Write Because by Linda L. Dowd Some say I'm multi-faceted, But the truth is plain to me, I can't make my mind up, As to what I'd like to be! I've studied several subjects, And racked up lots of letters, I learned my ABC's And joined the go-getters. But I thrive on adventure ~ Different places ~ different schemes, And even with my poetry, I write on different themes. I write poems of sizzling passion, I write poems of tender love, I write poems that are silly, I write poems on God Above. I may write something humorous, Then I'll write 'bout something bad, But next thing that I'm penning, Could be very, very sad. I write on spirituality, And on fairies, elves and sprites. I write about the angels, And things bumpin’ in the nites! Through writing I express myself, And pour emotions out, It's best for me to write them down, Than to sit about and pout. I may write for the masses, Or for just a chosen few. At times I write for me, Then at others just for you. Fantasies of every sort, Flow from my trusty quill. I like to be up-lifting ~ But I also like to thrill! I tell tales from the Dark Side, Then I write about the Light, I pen in different forms, But no one way is right. My poems have drawn a tear, And also spawned a laugh, I've brought about a sigh or two, Then I'm off to write of wrath! I write poems for the little ones, For children I hold dear, I like to make them giggle, And spread a little cheer. I write poems on Mother Nature ~ On the stars, sun, moon and sod, But this talent I've been blessed with, Is a gift I got from God! ~ |
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