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some poets never learn
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some poets never learn |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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some poets never learn how much better it is to write nothing than one poem over and over |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yet, we do. Because it is better to let some things out that other things might come in. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
LOL and I can't figure out if that's why I'm not writing at all these days or if it's just that I don't have it in me right now because what I once wrote about is no longer there...so I post an oldie now and then good stuff Ed |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
I've been worried about it lately, seeing myself as going flat, getting into a pattern that has me writing certain kinds of thing because, well, I write certain kinds of thing....and not branching out the way I should. Poetry's biggest aim is to make words be the most they can be, not to make them be "just-so".....and to express all that's in us, not a limited range of notions or patterns we repeat out of habit. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Okay fella ... ya' got me~ Scared this one out of my ink, you did~ /pip/Forum95/HTML/002080.html That's my quill and I'm sticking to it~  *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~ |
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aziza Member Elite
since 2006-07-09
Posts 2995Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy! |
You have me thinking. aziza |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Sometimes I feel like I'm writing the same things over and over...the thoughts gaining maturity...perhaps...James |
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Krawdad Member Elite
since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597 |
I have heard it said by published, but "retired" poets: "I don't write poetry anymore. There is nothing more to write about." For them it must be true. How do they know? Is it all just a state of mind? Is it a peculiar function of the brain that can be turned off? The pen lays itself down one day? |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
The pen may be mightier than the sword....but if you fall upon your pen, it's usually because your heart has already stopped beating..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ |
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XOx Uriah xOX Senior Member
since 2006-02-11
Posts 1403Virginia |
Wow ! I am most certainly guilty of this. I don't know if the voice of this muse can be turned off... But I am experimenting on whether or not it can be drowned. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Well, Jim Beam at 3 am won't do it, I'm dead certain of that....only makes it worse! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ed...I've been searching for my voice, I think it's cracked a bit now, but I know somewhere its song is beautiful to hear...I'm going to write it somehow! |
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ctowen Member Elite
since 2001-10-18
Posts 2286Green Mountains of VT |
Sometimes rhyming in time is the crime in itself ... but to find the time to rhyme one might overhear the chime, miss it at sometime, and later redefine each line ... ... me, I just punt!!  glad to know I am not the only and lonely!! Ct |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
sending you some sage wrapped in lavendar smiles |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
Pause for thought, yes. And wonder if I never write again, will I ever learn to recognize the echoes of my heart. Writing seems to take on a life of it's own at times. I just keep trying to define it by my own faulty vision. "The pen may be mightier than the sword....but if you fall upon your pen, it's usually because your heart has already stopped beating....." That in itself is a poem. I think my pen has stopped beating, too. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
LOL... You're never guilty of such sins, but oh... Such truth you write! *S* There are times when I feel I'm stuck with a coloring book of one image printed over and over... I can use different colors but the picture's still the same... and exceedingly boring after the first 2 or 3 glimpses! *G* |
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Effigy Member
since 2000-04-11
Posts 486disbelief |
It happens |
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