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Dennis Member
since 2001-02-19
Posts 235Indiana 
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I sat in the library, lost but never found unburdening my thoughts one day until the computers all went down I felt so lost, and turned away. I walked the streets and turned a corner never mind the smiling faces cup of coffee for a quarter dreaming of those island places. I just can't write poetry it's not the guy I am, I wonder is there something else you see I offer you this question to ponder. Thanks for reading, this is fun, but I think I'm more the reader type! who knows, maybe in time!!!!!! |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
Hey you do just fine. That is what's so nice about this place. You can read and if you so feel moved write poetry. |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Hi, Dennis. I've not read your poems before this one, but I can tell you that every writer becomes discouraged. (And some of us stay that way.) (o: Poetry isn't exactly something one can simply "pick up and do" at a moment's whim. It takes time, lots of practice, and lots and LOTS of reading. So do read, read as much as you can, especially the classic works of the wonderful poets who have come and gone before us, for they laid the foundation for this expressive art, and we have much to learn from them. Learning languages other than our native one and learning (preferably through first hand experience) about other cultures is also very helpful to gain an understanding of what poetry does for us and what it can do for reader and writer alike. As we learn about the human condition, so we learn to express it in an evocative way. Hope you will keep trying, and give yourself time. Life gives us continuous opportunity to learn, if we allow it. Good luck to you, Claire 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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Voiceless Senior Member
since 2001-02-19
Posts 686Under the stars upon the wind |
You are doing fine don't worry! All it takes is a heart, desire to write, and well words! The more you read the better i think you are able to write. Trying just free lance writing just write a bunch of words explaling how you feel. Put them together with a few descriptive words and you got yourself a poem... The more you write the more you love it and the better you are.. ~*Peachy Be*~ |
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snowpants Member Elite
since 2000-09-16
Posts 2061KS |
I think you did a great job with this one, Dennis! Don't give up...something we must all remember, I think. sp  do I believe we'd be better off apart? can I see my world without you in it? baby, not for a single minute... |
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Celeste Senior Member
since 2000-11-11
Posts 597 |
You can write poetry and you do it beautifully. Poetry is, for everyone, a different thing. It's an individual voice, a soul, speaking out. And yours is lovely. When you write from the heart, it's always true and beautiful. "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." ~Winston Churchill~ |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Dennis, This was good. It was honest and straightforward. You pull no punches in your writing and I like that. Reading will help you become a better writer, but so will practice. Just read through some of the archives. I hope you will stick around a while. Nice work.  Lone Wolf Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats |
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