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Stephanos
since 2000-07-31
Posts 3618Statesboro, GA, USA 
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Wanna Go surreal? and get that farout flighty feel? And make your words escape the space of Galileo's clockwork race, to cross the stifling barriers and fencings of convention stretching to more radical, phantasmical invention? All this is well and fine yet language won't stretch so divine nor our pennings so immense that freedom means to make no sense. Wanna burst the bonds of form with verse more fluid, flowing, warm? And take your styles to unknown heights? Surely writers have such rights. By all means go ahead and do the bold, the daring, strange and new! Just don't propell your ink so far your paper space won't hold a star. For those who wed togther these: good skills and spontenaeties will find good taste don't have to die when verbal paintings stroke the sky. For surely righters have such writes! And if you dare uncharted lands please map them each with artful hands. For those who go surreal must ever strive to be so real. SDJ 8/00 |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
...and that's the truth!! Another delightful piece, Stephanos!!  Denise |
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midnightblues Senior Member
since 2000-07-01
Posts 1597Singapore |
Incredible, Stephanos!!! I LOVE THIS! *S* very special love, michelle If there cannot be equal in affection, then let the one with more be me - midnightblues™ |
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Stephanos
since 2000-07-31
Posts 3618Statesboro, GA, USA |
Thanks for the comments dsnyder and midnightblues. This one was kind of spontaneous for me. I wrote it on-line and fired it with very little revision. Sometimes I polish and refine alot. Other times I just spill away and what comes out delights me. I think both ways each have certain value. I like far out and "free" poetry, but as you see this poem touches on my pet peeve about poetry for the sake of strangeness alone (almost anyone can do that)... though to be fair, that is okay sometimes too as long as it is tasteful and not to overtly surreal. (I dunno, maybe its just me... But if you look like your trying to do anything you are trying too hard! Bach never seemed to try to compose intensely Barouque music, he just did it and was himself! Don't try to be far out there, just launch far out there when it comes in a fitting and powerfully persuasive way.) Forgive my rambling! just food for thought. I'm really not that opinionated and love the efforts of all. Peace and Poetry always... |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
a wonderful poem, free flowing and true. It is good to push boundaries but only when you believe in what you write. "For those who go surreal must ever strive to be so real". "I am melancholy, flower cutting through stone" manic street preachers |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Stephanos~ I love it when the words come tumbling out - one over another, so quickly racing to the page. Most of my writing 'spills' just that way. Rhyming or free - I love the float ! Delightfully surrealistic ! ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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wordancer Senior Member
since 2000-07-30
Posts 809VA |
quote: Stephanos, this is it in a nutshell. And this is why I hardly writing right now. Because it is not flowing. I just came off a 8 month long writing high almost a month ago. It was wild, start with a word, a thought and the next thing I knew I had a whole poem that just needed tweaking. Darn that use to scare, who was this writing this stuff. Now for some reason that magic flow is ... gone ... or just perhaps hiding. Oh I hope so, this is really starting to bother me now. I feel naked without my words. I have written a couple of items, but its afar cry from the several a week that I was doing. *sigh* Lady Nogs |
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Stephanos
since 2000-07-31
Posts 3618Statesboro, GA, USA |
Lady Noggins, Ah yes, I am quite familiar with dry spots and barren spaces (literarily speaking). To be honest, I think it it supposed to be so. If you were just writing like a locomotive for month after month, year after year with no hiatus at all you might not be a great poet. With me, I have found that after the unproductive spell my writing returns with new qualities and nuances, and refined skills. Probably the same with you my lady. Each successive stage involves this kind of thing. It's the ebb and flow of life (now in the microcosm of poetry) . . .Like when a caterpillar (already beautiful) has to succumb to the crusty cocoon for a while before she emerges with greater grace and beauty. Don't be overly concerned. It will come again even better than before. |
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