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An apology to you all.
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An apology to you all. |
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Effigy Member
since 2000-04-11
Posts 486disbelief 
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I’m sorry I never wrote like you. I never told stories of lost love, or of love so true. Guess I’m not your normal poet I never wrote in such style. Never was one of you, and I know it. Never fit into much of a style at all, Had no rhythm, no meter. I suppose poetry was not my call. So I’m sorry that I’ve wasted your time. I never gave you a heartwarming piece. My poetry was damn near a crime. So go back to your world were poetry is all sweet. I’ll stay here and there and never the two shall meet. < !signature--> Just an effigy to be disgraced, to be defaced. Your need for me has been replaced. [This message has been edited by Effigy (edited 07-26-2000).] |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
who says poems have to be all warm and fuzzy? there is a place for you here dont go never say never |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Effigy, I rarely write "happy" pieces ... and doing so is definitely not a prerequisite to sharing your work here. Please do keep sharing. There is worth in ALL poetry, my friend, and in ALL people. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Effigy, some of us don't have a style! And we'd get sick of sappy/sweet stuff too..that's why we have so many different forums...but you've let the cat out of the bag here- you do have rhyme and meter in this poem.. can't escape it! You're one of us!  |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
HUH????? if i had to write stories of true love or lost love *ALL* the time, i'd be reticent to even THINK of myself as "poet".... AND if those were the only themes there were to read in the world of poety.... well, i think i'd slip away and go back to the world of dance, drawing, and watercolor..... in other words, HUH? Poetry is a slice of life. Poetry is a photograph of time. Poetry is pain, pleasure, anguish, and intrigue. Poetry is an exploration of all of life. And you, m'friend, are a fine poet because you delve into all of what poetry is.  [This message has been edited by doreen peri (edited 07-26-2000).] |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Effigy---it's all true what they said---I'm a bit of a moody one myself...one day I write like a teenager in love and the next day I'm forty and considering a leap from a tall building...don't be discouraged...it's all good...yesterday I replied to a poem that was nothing but a dot...lol..I replied with a ? but I replied, durn it...love to you...now go forth and write... |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Dear Effigy, Nobody ever taught me the rules of poetry I think that's because there aren't any rules . Poetry doesn't have to rhyme or have meter. Most poetry written today is in free verse. The poets who supposedly are "the best" are not my favorites. Some of it's way over my head. But I liked what you wrote in your verse above because it spoke from your heart to mine. And so it wasn't a waste of time. I hope you keep writing your thoughts. It doesn't matter the style. It's all worth while Liz |
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Parker Member Elite
since 2000-01-06
Posts 3129ON |
Well this is a warming piece, its got rhyme, style. Got my attention. you are a poet, thats sure. I shall read your other stuff. I think that its to easy to get lost in the flood of so many poet here, I'd love to read and reply to all. Not enough time. I know not an excuse, but glad you point yourself out. Well find you eventually you can bet on it. Parker |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I haven't been around much lately... so this is the first of your poems I've read... but if you keep writing, it won't be the last! *S* Hang in there! |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
I'm with the rest of them. Not to gang up on you or anything, but if we have to dogpile you to hold you down then we will. If I have learned anything about poetry in my VERY short life as one then it is that there is no style,rhyme,nor even a reason in which you must have to indulge. I myself turn to nature in almost all of my works because that if my safe haven. Do not go for if you do then we all lose on this day and I for one do not like to lose what I hold so valuble. Drop on in and I will greet you always with a smile and open arms. |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
OH no!! Serenity... does that mean when we're forty we have to leap from tall buildings???? are we supermen/women? or suicidal??? lol FG....what they said.... HUH??? |
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RainbowGirl Member Elite
since 1999-07-31
Posts 3023United Kingdom |
Hey sweetheart, we ALL write from the heart and that's what you've done.. Big HUGS "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
and somedays I am a suicidal superwoman...I TOLD YA I WAS MOODY.... |
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Effigy Member
since 2000-04-11
Posts 486disbelief |
No no no. You can't talk me out of it. I'm Leaving! Well maybe not right now, later maybe. I'm just kidding. This poem was not a threat to leave. This was just a poem like any other. Fantasy, not reality. I must say though I'm glad to see the out pouring of support here. And to think that I thought I went un-noticed.  I most deffinatly don't write like every one else, but I make no apologies for it, for this style (or lack there of) is my art. It's my emotion, and I write for myself. Thanks for your support.Sincerly, Wes |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
I think it would great if you wrote another poem just like this one only with a different subject......because there is nothing wrong with this one? |
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killer222 Junior Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 48Northolt,Middlesex,England |
Everyone has a different style, I feel out of place here sometimes because the quality is so good. A poem that may mean nothing to one could mean the world to another. This is a good poem to let someone who feels there work is not good enough to realise every poem written means something. "shun the frumious Bandersnatch!" Killer222 :) |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
hope you aren't still thinking this way |
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