Roll Call ~ Poetry Forum

[tungtied2u]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)
I want to improve my poetry. Go ahead, hit me with your best shot. I can take it. But be forewarned, I have CIA training in tracking and assasination.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica?
What role do you see yourself playing here?
I did some Sunday new poem reviews for a while,and although I enjoyed the reading, and learned much, I didn't have the stamina or stick-to-it-tiveness eve, liar and neo do. I appreciate and admire their hard work, dedication and insightfulness, as well as the courage of all who spend the time to take on that chore.
I enjoy the feeling of comradierie I've found here. I haven't been posting or writing much lately. I've been a bad boy and been made to stand in the corner. But when I get out, I'm always open to questions and fun, even if it's naughty (or should I say especially )

*How would you describe your writing?
Improving and exploratory. Usually I write from an emotional urge,
sort of hurl it out there. But I've been trying to become more disciplined, without losing the visceral punch.

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.
It's on my bio page....or lick the touch tung's link on my thread postings.


*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work
fait accompli

What Madness

This Madness

Big Bang

Raggedy Ann

 

[catastrophe]

.....

 

[Trent_Dutch]

Seymour: an Introduction.... well actually it has little to do with Seymour.

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit? (please include level of critique you are looking for.)

There are two main areas where I hope to gain something from Lit, both of them rather selfish.
Firstly, through poetry I touch on things about myself that I would usually deny quite rigidly. And spending time thinking about these aspects, even at obscure angles, is better than not seeing them altogether. When I was younger I was a passionate short story writer, but after (kindof) growing up and facing responsibility (usually with my tongue out) and finding other passions I have found that my creative writing has slowed to a practical minimum. I still write religiously, but in a scientific/academic capacity. I plan to have time on my hands for a while and so also plan to reignite my writing. Poetry was something I have always had a passion for (I used to be a kind of beat poet when in University) and now I have some time I hope to apply myself to it more (I daren't go near the short story form again.... they eat up little undetached writers like myself). I really just want to put my poems within a public arena, and to receive feedback and critique in order to better myself.
Secondly, I thoroughly enjoy reading and commenting on poetry... and so, well, I'm here.


*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

Contributions:
1.) I know how to open a bottle of beer with just a cigarette lighter.
2.) I'm willing to share my recipe for the best Butternut squash soup possibly ever put together.
3.) I can discuss Computational theories of Human intelligence endlessly.
Feel free to PM me for any of the above.

What role do I see myself playing? A few years ago I would probably have answered 'Devils Advocate' and then proceeded to enthral/annoy you all with my ascerbic wit. Nowadays however I have mellowed (I'm kinda like the descriptions of all those coffees people buy: Rounded, easy going and balanced....). I hope that I can give objective feedback and critique to help others embrace an art form I find fascinating.

*How would you describe your writing?

I don't. I leave that up to everyone else. I will tell you the one thing I have realised about my poetry. It's not about truth. Poetry about truth has more questions than what I write.

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work.

I really like
Morning . Knowing what its all about, I feel I was at my most articulate in this poem. Apart from that its not what I think that really matters, although my 'next' poem will be my best (I keep telling myself).

If you want to read me, then all my stuff can be found Here

 

[CharleyH]

What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

I don't really know. Sex? I do not require criticism thanks

What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

Wel, whatever I can, but time doesn't allow me to commit to anything specific.

How would you describe your writing?

Good to fabulous. It depends. My poetry stays in a range all it's own - indescript. lol

URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

See I don't do sequels in my sig line.

List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

The Screening is my best story and can be found in my sig line under I don't do sequels. Actually, Raison d'etre is pretty good to, if you don't like sex. Please note my new audio poem Not only can you see me, but now you can hear me too!! I have some poems and a few I am proud of. Since I don't have many, you could probably read them all

I LOVE THE NEW SITE DESIGN!!! Just wanted to share that

 

[Syndra Lynn]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

Encouragement, inspiration, and constructive (not destructive) criticism. I have learned so much from the many talented poets here who willingly share their time that I feel blessed just to hang around.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

Sex Goddess. Same role I play everywhere.

I enjoy reading and commenting on others' poetry and hope I can be helpful to new poets, because I don't feel qualified to help the established poets.

*How would you describe your writing?

I incorporate the full spectrum between explicitly hardcore and serenely spiritual. My writing is vivid and in the moment. I want people to experience first hand what I write, whether it is a plea to stop pollution, or an E ticket ride on the Syndra coaster.

*URL to your work at lit
Sexual Stories and Pretty Poems by Syndra

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit

Kindred Strangers is a collaborative poem that I wrote with Kundalinguini. We posted it in a thread, and it did not get much response. I am very proud of that piece of work. It still makes me wet every time I read it.

Orange Glow was nominated for a Lit award in erotic poetry last year.


I love being a part of Lit, though I tend to spend more time surfing poetry and stories sometimes than I do writing!

My name is Syndra. I'm a Literotica addict.

Glad to be a part of this community!

Syndralicious

 

[Savage Kitten]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit

In 2 months will be my 5yr anniversary here at Lit. I originally came to get my stories submitted and found my way to the Bulletin Boards. I was hooked, to say the least. In the years, the people have changed, the tone has changed, the style of writing has changed, but most of all, I have changed. But through it all, I continue to come back to Lit for the same reasons; inspiration and praise.

*How would you describe your writing?

spontanious, playful, moody, sensual

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

Savage Kitten's Home

Savage Kitten @ Lit

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

Some of my most favorites are poems I wrote for contests and challenges. To read them, you most likely wouldn't get the true story. But, for me, they bring back a time of fun, laughter, and friendship.

Heavy? Go On A Diet!
Pink Seduction

This is the story I first came to submit. Submit I did, in the rawest form possible! The email I got back made me feel like a chatised child, at first. But then, the volunteer editor helped me see my mistakes (and there were many of them!), and fix them, so I could rewrite my story. Even in doing so, it took a long while before I brought myself to submit it to Lit.

The Meeting

 

[lindiana]

Moi?

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

Hmmm...well literotica is the perfect home for me because no matter what my stories start out being about, they always end up with lots of kinky sex.

As for critique, I don't mind criticism but I don't really pay attention to it.
That might sound odd but I shall bore you with the short version of how I got my first poem published: I submitted dozens of poems, all rejected. I read the latest copy of the literary magazine. I wrote a poem geared towards what HAD been accepted. Whamo! Instant acceptance.
To me that isn't my poetry...that is the audiences or the editors.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

I shall be the sour old spinster that when you all need someone to whip, you will call upon to crawl out of her cage so you can beat her mercilessly.

Or you may pick and prod at me knowing my BS is in Secondary Education/English/Communications and I still can't spell worth a damn.


*How would you describe your writing?

Sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes mediocre.


*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

My stuff


*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

Stories et al
The Chosin
The Master and the slave girl
Dear Daddy

Poetry
For Steve: Last Exit
Old Mattress, New Love
Comforters on Sale

 

[Bill Dada]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

I hope to have lots of fun. I love to play with words and ideas and love to read results of that. As far as what level of criticism, I guess whatever level whoever writing is capable.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

I think life is fun and I tend to contribute from there. So the role I will be playing is playing.


*How would you describe your writing?

The offspring of a brain damaged hyena and a dump truck with a bad transmission.

*URL to your work at lit

See my sig line below.

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit

favorite story

Passive Tension For some reason this one has received no comments and very few votes. It is the one I feel is my best, so I am a bit confused?????

Some of my favorite poets are: Jim Dodge, Bill Knot, Ken Fifer, Robert Hayden, Lyn Lifshin, Ishmael Reed, Anne Waldman, Russell Edson, Tom Clark, Lorca, William Carlos Williams to name a few. I think Tom Robbins, Ishmael Reed and Jim Dodge's prose often reads like poetry.

I love the sense of community and truly enjoy being a part of that community.

 

[sophia jane]

What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)
The most important thing I am looking for is a support system- people who understand what it means to be a writer. But I would also like to find out ways to improve my style. I am open to all forms of critique. Just be honest and up front with me.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?
I have no idea! I'm learning as I go.

*How would you describe your writing?

Free verse. I write emotionally, so most of my work is based on my personal experiences. I have also started writing short stories.

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.
see sig line

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work
There aren't too many up yet, but my favorite poem is "Stretch Marks. "

SJ

 

[LadyJeanne]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

I just like to write and Lit gives me an actual audience so my friends don't have to suffer through my ramblings. I welcome all feedback, but I'm especially grateful when something I've written strikes a chord within someone else.


*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

I don't really think of myself as a poet. I like words and playing words, so it's fun to be creative and to try to say something in a different way. I lurk on this board, mostly, but you can always find me in the AH.

I really enjoy reading poetry, however, and I've found some amazing writers here. I think I get more out of this place by reading others' poems than I do by contributing anything in particular.

*How would you describe your writing?

My writing tends to be descriptive; I try to be expressive with feel and mood. I think my aim is to give the reader the impression that they are there, or allow them to see, feel, hear, taste even if they're not there.


*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

My Lit page and new poems are linked in my sig.

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work.

Today, I'm fondest of "A Seduction in the Dark".

 

[midwicket]

What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

Been lurking a wee while, I like much of what I see, that is both non-erotic and erotic poetry.
Plenty of honest to goodness critique wanted – please.

What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

Joining in, but nothing smutty !

How would you describe your writing?

First started as a kid, but following rejection of poetry to a competition, dampened any further urges.
Lurking here in Lit seems to have given me a new interest in seeing if there is anything there after all this time.

After all experiences of life may give me some help !!?? LOL.

URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

Some-day perhaps when the other universe opens its doors, and time allows me to indulge.


List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

You’ll see them when ( if ) I publish ‘em ! ( Only 1 so far ! )
You may not want me !!!

 

[Willow Rain]

Better late then never?

I'm not very active on the boards but I do sometimes read them. The reviews often lead me to people that I end up bookmarking. Ya'lls comments on my own work encourages me and give me the strength to post more stuff. Sometimes what resonates for people really surprises me.

What do I hope to get out of my time here?

Well, I started posting as a way to privately talk to someone who I have a very strong love/hate draw toward. It may be why some of what ends up here seems so tortured. I'm a happy person with a good life, I promise, I'm just a touch emotional. Getting to read other poets, hearing from other people, writing to other people has been an unexpected perk.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

I really don't know. At best I hope I touch people. I hope my words of encuragement to others lift their hearts. Writing can at times feel very isolating and lonely.

*How would you describe your writing?

Self obsessed masterbatory journaling. When I feel too much, or can't talk about it because of the intensity of my emotions, I write. It is part of the way I process experiance. Sometimes it is sloppy, sometimes it is tight. My words can come out like a thin thread pulled from my lips, or they can pour like piss from my bowels, I never really know when I start. Ya'll get to read my stuff in a very raw state. I rewrite very little. My goal isn't perfect prose, I am trying to pin down the experiance of my life in a way that makes it easier for me to tolerate.



*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

Crap, I don't know. http://english.literotica.com:81/stories/showstory.php?id=176640 is the url for Coming home. I like that one because for me it captures how my husband makes me feel secure and loved, and how he just... I don't know... gets me.

Read ya soon,
Willow

 

[angelicminx]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

I want to learn. I love the friendly, helpful atmosphere and people on Lit. I have learned so much already, but I know I have a long way to go. I don't mind critique in the least, it's the only way to learn. I don't want "fluff", if it's bad, say so and tell me why. If it's good, the same thing applies.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

I have no idea. I don't write much poetry, I don't really know how. I just write what comes to mind at the moment my fingers strike the keys. It comes from the heart and the height of my emotions at that time. I am working on a tricky illustrated poem about my daughter right now though. I hope it turns out as planned and isn't just lame drivel.

*How would you describe your writing?

Amateur at best, but I'm learning in leaps and bounds.

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

MY WORK Can also be found in my sig.

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

Stories:
I had the most fun writing "Lustful Leeves Ch. 01"
The one that showcases what I have learned would be "Chronicles of Passion:Earth Day Ch. 01"

Poems:
Most proud of "He Gives Me Butterflies"
The second would be "Mind Fuck"

 

[tolyk]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)
A fun time Relaxation and maybe a bit of writing. As for critique, I have a very thick skin, so whatever you want to dish out.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?
Well, as I improve my craft, I hope to be able to teach others at least a few things

*How would you describe your writing?
~free verse, non-rhyming, non-metrical mess of stuff (She said that so well)

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.
The link to my work is in my sigline, and always will be, the one that says My Smut & Poetry.

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work
My favorite poem is "Fire" but only because it was my second poem ever, and still the only one I have memorized.

The one I am most proud of that I have submitted so far is "Seeking", I feel it shows a lot of growth in my work (It is the only new poem I have submitted)

Wicked wanted me to state my underwear size, but I think I'll leave that to the imagination.

 

[FuckDoll]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)
Well, I've technically been around for quite a while, but rarely pop over to the forums. I think I'm changing that though... wouldn't mind getting to know a few people around here. I lurk, but who knows, it might be fun to step out of the shadows.

As far as critique, I welcome it (on any level).

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

Who knows? I'm the poetry moderator at a rather large but very different sort of forum. I do know that I would like to get to know some people better here though. I suppose that would be my main purpose.

*How would you describe your writing?
abstract. Some people have a hard time grasping my writing. Some are just scared of it. Some just don't like it at all. It's a bit different, not the usual love & happy roses or depression themes.

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

My page. If you want a real idea of my poetry read the more recently posted work. I haven't posted much poetry lately. Well, until today... I think I added 10. (sorry!)

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

favourites of mine:
-----------------------------
Fingered
by FuckDoll ©

Faded blue jeans are my comfort,
seeing them always means home.
Guaranteeing my success would be trivial
in hindsight, (besides I only spent a quarter.)

The painted face
means I'm up for anything,
don't you know? Lost in decadence,
bewildered by certain alluring spices.
I saw you once underneath the magic moon.
I was the girl with the curious stare.
----------------------------

As well as a few I just submitted today.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

What you hope to get out of your time at lit

I am a regular writer of doggerel, as a quick peek at my only published poem here: Shopper's Orgy, or, The Saturnalia Before Christmas will attest.

I have become too busy for works of any length. So, I thought I might put many small pieces of time to good use trying to cobble my doggerel up from badder to verse.

What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at Literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

That rather depends upon what role the poetry community requires that I am capable of filling. Without knowing that, I suggest that I will probably live up to my name, I usually do.

Please include level of critique you are looking for

I guess that I expect the kind of critiques my works deserve, up to and including the warm fuzzy welcome I just observed being accorded Elizafairy’s Fairyland.

How would you describe your writing?

Mostly doggerel, sometimes rather currish and covered in fleas.

URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

These are my submissions, all, but the one already noted, are prose.

 

[fathom7]

Please, if you will, check in on this thread-- if you are a poet, reader, troll, lurker, or just like to look at the pretty poet av's.... lets all check in.



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*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

*How would you describe your writing?

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work


Suggestions:

**Please keep it brief
........ think of it as a reference for newbies or us old folks with failing memories

**Please don't post off topic
......... unless you absolutely cannot help yourself

**If you don't post your own bio within 2 weeks, I will make one up for you without hesitation.


*** Note: this is not part of the Patriot Act. Also please do not include your political affiliation, your social security number or your mother's maiden name.


thanks!

~anna

Answering your questions:

Looking for deep feedback on random submissions.

My contributions are just a sharing of those things that flow from when I "stick a pen in my heart" [apologies to the Rolling Stones] and pour onto the page those things that stir me.

Description of my writing: ecclectic. Most postings will be and are non-erotic. The erotic ones are more symbolic as opposed to descriptive. Free verse and sonnets are favorite forms for me. I do a LOT of Haiku but they're just too short and too many to post here routinely. If I get a really good one -- I'll send it up.

I guess anything I have up here is my "favorite" here on the lit. There's not much but you can find them and see for yourself.

Brief enough?

 

[Boxlicker101]

I have been gone for a short time and I have found that I cannot keep track of the cast of characters here in poetry world.

Please, if you will, check in on this thread-- if you are a poet, reader, troll, lurker, or just like to look at the pretty poet av's.... lets all check in.



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*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

I'm here because I like to write dirty stories and I enjoy the banter and repartee with other writers. I would like honest opinions of my stories, considering they are just intended to help people wank or frig. I like to know if I am succeeding at that. I do not expect to get a nomination for a Nobel Prize or anything else of the kind.

What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

Not very much. I am not what I think of as a serious poet. Most of what I write is doggerel or jokes told in rhyme. There are a few exceptions, though.

How would you describe your writing?

Smutty. Most of my stories, including all of them in first person, are just stroke with no real plot or character development or other things that a professor of literature would look for. However, I have written a few stories that I believe go beyond that. As to my poetry, although they are not serious works, I do try to write in perfect meter.

URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=207952&page=submissions

List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

Stories: Karen's Birthday, Zuzie Beams Me Up, Cindy Lou Moves to New York, I Dine with Izabella, I Install Cable for Lynne, I Critique Jennifer
Poems: Tatelou Quits Smoking, Grampa's Little Man, Crap-shooting Blonde, Blonde Joke



Suggestions:

**Please keep it brief
........ think of it as a reference for newbies or us old folks with failing memories

**Please don't post off topic
......... unless you absolutely cannot help yourself

**If you don't post your own bio within 2 weeks, I will make one up for you without hesitation.
My Bio is included with my index.


*** Note: this is not part of the Patriot Act. Also please do not include your political affiliation, your social security number or your mother's maiden name.


thanks!

~anna

See the answers up above

 

[~hellbaby~]

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

I enjoy the poems, and look foward to any advice and pointers. I'm looking forward to meeting some nice people too.I just began to write again for the first time in 21 years. I think most of the poems I write don't make much sense to anyone but me,or if they do it is only half the story. Every now and then I have a semi normal inspiration. They can be odd to, I just write to get it out of my head really.
I'd be open to any level of constructive critique,my skin is not thin.
*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

stories and poems

 

[Sabina_Tolchovsky]

What do I hope to get out of my time at literotica?

rhetoric, creative friends, inspiration and the ability to polish my writing.

level of critique?

anything. tell me anything...praise or criticism if my poetry made you feel something, let me know.

contribution?

as much as I can give.

role?

I just want to write and read what others write, maybe help or maybe get some help.
I cannot presume a role, only the future will dictate what will be.

describe your writing?

emotionaly charged poetic paranoia, striving to evolve to a higher level.

favorite poems

Sin du jour
kerosene and chocolate
Verbotan
to let go
silent rain

I think this covers a broad spectrum of my work.

 

[BooMerengue]

I don't know why I waited so long to do this; Mom said I was a late bloomer. I hope she's right, cuz I'm still waitin'!

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

I like as much constructive critique as I can get, and there is never enough. It's how I learn.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

I don't see much of a 'role' here for me, but I hope my work adds to the diversity here.

*How would you describe your writing?

Impulsive and undisciplined, though I do try to use as much form poetry as I can; spontaneous and mostly guesswork! lol I am still amazed when I write something that gets a really good response.

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

My work...

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work.

These stories are part of a larger work; they are my favorites here.
Beginnings, Callie's Rest, and An old lady remembers

My favorite poems, for today, anyway, are...
The Fall, Still, and one I am amazed about it's reception, Flippy

Though you didn't ask, it has been asked on another thread, so I'll answer it here. I have work published at Eve'sHabit, MannequinEnvy, thievesjargon and admit2.

 

[darkmaas]

I've been away. The wallpaper has been changed but the place still seems the same. I see the aged trout is back. (Send a pitcher of beer with olives over to that table in the corner). Miss Hynde seems to have acquired furnishings for her AV. Where's the Fool? It must be his turn to buy.

Hi Ange.


*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

On a good day the poetry corner of Lit. is like a comfortable oasis in a bad part of town. You go to meet old friends, share gossip and read a bit of poetry. Every now and then someone staggers in from another forum and throws up on your table but it only adds to the "charm".

On some days this forum is a bit like the stuff growing on the leftovers in my fridge. You watch with fascination in the hope that before everything goes brown and mushy, there might erupt a flash of blue or red mould.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

I used to do reviews on Mondays. It was hard work. (Hats off to the present crop of reviewers.) I had a pair of assistants but Viola died over the winter and Violetta only did it because she knew it annoyed Viola so ... I guess I'll settle for contributing the odd bit of conversation (prurient or otherwise).

*How would you describe your writing?

Variegated

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

darkmaas writes

 

[eagleyez]

Hello Anna

Nice to see you back.!

And a fond hello to Darkmaas!

His Twelve Bar thread was the first to induce a contribution from me here on this Board, although, I enjoyed and had read and admired so much of the material and commentary as a lurker for quite some time. I agree with his analogy re: the "good neighborhood."
I like to joke around and comment on politics and history and music on the General Board, but find the tone and nastiness a bit much there. That said, I know there are some very nice and sincere and witty, funny people there. As for all the rest of the Boards at Lit, well, I dont know anything about them, cause I havent even opened them.

I started writing and absorbing poetry at a young age, probably around 13 or so. As a San Fransisco kid, I was accidently exposed to the Beat tradition because living there, I saw City Lights bookstore and wondered about it's history, and also was aware of the famous gig's of Lenny Bruce at the Purple Onion night club and Ginsberg's initial readings of "Howl," both of which fascinated me because of the legal entganglement's they created re: Obscenity and First Amendment challenges they precipitated. I dont know why this all fascinated me so much, it just did.

My style? Hell, I dont know. One of my lifelong dreams has been to publish fiction, and I am much more particular about those projects than I am about my poems.
I shoot from the hip, rarely, if ever, edit. I am very influenced by Eastern poetic traditions, studied and became inspired by Ancient and Medieval European sources such as Chaucer, Boethius, the Pearl Poet, Dante, Virgil, just to name a few. Skip ahead and you will find me tickled by the 20th century, post industrial figures such as Joyce, Bellow, Faulkner, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Celine, Snyder,
Bukowski, Kerouac, and particularly, Gary Snyder, whose blending of east/west has always touched me deeply.

I consider it a stroke of luck and a priveledge to read and absorb much of the work found here on the Poetry Forum.

In this digital age, with all its speed and technology, I know of many who feel it is the fool's errand to write Poems. Malarky, they say.

Well, Im one fool who will happily disagree. I try to maintain a balance betwixt my writing endeavors and a busy life as a parent and workaday survivor. I value the whole of that spectrum, and, in the end, writing is FUN and dont cost me a dime yet enriches my life for sure.

What is a URL anyway? I guess Ange can fill me in on that Jazz.

As always, my best to all you kids out there.

(edited for some piss poor spelling)

 

[Zanzibar]

A taste of Zanzibar

Some possible information to include:

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

Looking for poetry and stories to read that help inspire me, that make me smile, and whet my appetite to read and create stories and poems of my own. Friends to share the same with.

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

I offer constructive feedback from my perspective to other poets and writers, I offer some of my own creativity and style in works of my own. I've often times been able to help someone by providing insight into their work. My role? Just becoming a part of the family of creative writers. I've long had a way with words in music, and stories, and I want to expand that into poetry as well.

*How would you describe your writing?

Eclectic. I try and find rich imagery when I write, drawing the reader in. Many times my inspirations come spontaneously - much of my best work has happened spur of the moment, reacting to a challenge or sudden event.

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

See my signature

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work.

I'd say the Obsessions series is one of my best works at Lit. Not enough sex in the beginning chapters to whet the appetites of those who seek immediate gratification, but all together, building up into quite a story.

My favorite poems - Final Orders and Weave so far.

Links in my signature to all my works.

 

[wildsweetone]

**If you don't post your own bio within 2 weeks, I will make one up for you without hesitation.

Well heck, I waited a GOOD 2 weeks anna, and still no bio showing for me so I thought I'd better stick one up for myself.

*What you hope to get out of your time at lit (please include level of critique you are looking for)

I've been here for a while and got more than I ever expected, including asthma attacks from what's behind Boo's couch.

As for poetry, I prefer honest, straight critiques that pertain to my writing. I would like you to make me think and work hard to answer the questions you pose that will help me to make sense of my thoughts. I do not learn much when someone offers me a rewrite, my mind tends to go blank and it is as if I have been given a gift that is perfect and that I cannot improve upon. So, make me work!

*What do you hope to contribute to the poetry community at literotica? What role do you see yourself playing here?

The same as I receive. I hope to learn enough to be able to give reasonable critiques that make sense and that may help another.

What role? I am just me. What you see is what you get and well... I am what I am. I don't see any particular role at this point.

*How would you describe your writing?

My writing... hmm I feel that I write in a fairly basic format. At this point I prefer free verse, though I have tried a few form poems. I hate restrictions, but will say that they do make me work harder which is a good thing. So, basic writing but growing every time I write.

*URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

My stories and poetry

*List of some of your favorite poems/stories you have at Lit, in case anyone wants to get a taste of your work

Each one is a favourite for different reasons. If you want to look, feel free.


Suggestions:
Not so much a suggestion but a note... I don't take into count red 'H's or green 'E's. There are too many variables for either of those things to mean much to me.