Roll Call ~ Poetry Forum

[Lonesomepoet]

My Poetry!

Hello, All,

Well, am back on Lit. after being gone for about 2 years. Yeah, I missed it. My poetry? Well, I am not here to have my poetry gone over with a fine toothed comb by the "rhyme & meter crew." I don't believe in that, for once everyone else gets done with your poem, and you change here, and you change there, then it is no longer a "from the heart" poem, but belongs to "the judges." My poetry is from the heart, and I use "the rhyme" form, and try to make it flow as best as it comes to me. But I in nowise am a "stick to the rules of rhyme & meter" kind of poet. So, my poetry is here just to maybe bring a smile to someone's face, cause a giggle or a laugh, or maybe make someone think of a concept they've never previously considered.

It's good to be back, and I look forward to being back in this poetry forum.

~ Lonesomepoet

 

[darkerdreamer]

Hello, All,

Well, am back on Lit. after being gone for about 2 years. Yeah, I missed it. My poetry? Well, I am not here to have my poetry gone over with a fine toothed comb by the "rhyme & meter crew." I don't believe in that, for once everyone else gets done with your poem, and you change here, and you change there, then it is no longer a "from the heart" poem, but belongs to "the judges." My poetry is from the heart, and I use "the rhyme" form, and try to make it flow as best as it comes to me. But I in nowise am a "stick to the rules of rhyme & meter" kind of poet. So, my poetry is here just to maybe bring a smile to someone's face, cause a giggle or a laugh, or maybe make someone think of a concept they've never previously considered.

It's good to be back, and I look forward to being back in this poetry forum.

~ Lonesomepoet

A poet after my own heart. Welcome aboard, Lonesome, or LSP as I will now refer to you, to save time.
-2d

 

[Lonesomepoet]

Thanks!

A poet after my own heart. Welcome aboard, Lonesome, or LSP as I will now refer to you, to save time.
-2d

Thank you for the compliment, and the welcome back.

~Lonesomepoet

 

[das_risiko]

What are you hoping to get out of your time at Lit?

- Critiques to help me improve my writing
- An outlet for poetry that I am unable to submit elsewhere

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

- Not really sure I can contribute anything different. Just see myself as an occasional contributor.

How would you describe your writing?

- Usually free verse or blank verse. Usually non-rhyming. Mostly inspired by my wife. Occasionally about what I observe or political issues. Observations are usually my best poetry.

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

- I typically don't think my work is that great. Never claimed to be a Robert Frost, but here are some of the poems I have posted.

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=308254 (An Irish Tale)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=308255 (Trophy)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=308252 (Control)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=308253 (Untitled: Poem #100)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=308256 (Unexpected)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=308257 (White Chocolate)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=308250 (coffee)
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=308251 (Untitled: Poem #309)

 

[ZeckBock]

Greetings,

I am very, very new to poetry and am hoping to take these twisted ideas and sick machinations out of my brain and onto paper (screen).

I don't follow any traditional structure. Where the words fall, they fall.
Though when creating rhyming poetry, I tend to use odd metre.
It may roll off the tongue or not, depending on how you choose to view it.

Tried doing erotic poetry but wound up typing about wolves and mice and machines instead.

All I ask is honest feedback from a storytelling POV.
If my words can create vivid images in your head then the purpose has been served.

Thank you!

 

[Odd_Man_Out]

Hello to all my fellow poets. This is the Odd Man Out reporting live from my den with my notebook of my stories parts and poems ready to be shared with the viewing public. Never I thought i'd find something like this when i first discovered Lit, but i like it.

Hopefully my works shall be well recieved by my audiance with the occasional flame and dislike thrown in which shall make me write better and allow my works known to many in my later years.

Until then, please enjoy my thread and if a thought comes to mind...feel free to express it.

 

[wildsweetone]

welcome das_risiko, ZeckBock and Odd_Man_Out. i hope you like your stay here and enjoy sharing your poetry.

if there's anything you'd like to know, just shout and someone will be along, eventually, to help you out.

 

[WynEternal]

Since I've started subjecting you all to my writing, I thought the least I should do was introduce myself.

I've been writing since I was a kid, but this was the first time I'm putting it on display.

What do I hope to get out of my time here? To go out of my comfort zone. I fear critiques, so I hope to get kind feedback on how to improve. I'd like to try my hand at silly, fluffy, and (dare I hope?) happy pieces.

I'm not sure what my contributions will be, or even what role I will play. I do know that I want to learn.

My writing is oftentimes moody and angstfilled. It's not depressingly dark, but neither is it a ray of sunshine. Occasionally, I will surprise myself and pen something hopeful.

Examples. None at this time. I may get the courage sometime in the future to submit something.

I guess that's it.

 

[hmmnmm]

I shall echo much of what the beautiful souls who posted here before me have said, plus much of what would go here I have scattered here and there in various threads and posts.

It would be obvious overworn cliche for me to say that life up this point has been directionless and random, tried this, tried that, like this but then I liked something else. Always seeking or attempting to understand some semblance of identity but nothing became clear or nothing seemed to fit best.

I'd been complimented in the past for my 'way with words' but I often took their words for granted or sometimes they referred to me as 'poet' but I outright scoffed and seemed to rebel the most fierce when anyone attempted to pin that tag on me. Of course I didn't mind if they said they liked the songs I wrote and occasionally played in public (I was a street musician for a few years, playing mostly my own material - but that was nearly twenty years ago all of a sudden - but for some reason I never opened my arms and heart to the concept, much less the word 'poetry'.

Sometime in December 2004 the thought crossed my mind as to whether or not I could find a comfortable place in the world of writing erotic literature. The idea held tremendous appeal and in searching the net I found Literotica and signed on.
It was among my few primary devotions over the next several months when I got sidetracked into matters of life personal (got married). Since then I've popped in and out, actually submitted something for the halloween 2006 contest (I'm not a contest/competition sort).

Then it was just a few days ago, and I honestly can't remember what triggered the thought process but somehow i ended up thinking and pondering with the idea of poetry. But then the old villain within woke up right away and said, "Bah! You're no poet!" but I shsshed him this time.

While in the questive mood I took down the old tattered Webster's from 1973. And I found something that literally turned things around. Under the definition of 'poet' it has the usual stuff about poetry and verses and stuff, but then one little subordinate line goes like this: "a creative artist of great imagination and expressive gifts and special sensitivity to his medium."
Then I went across the top of the next page to 'poetry' and found this: "the productions of a poet."

I then glanced up at a couple pictures I matted a framed a couple years ago, and like a gauzy veil fell away from them they practically identified themselves as "poetry". I ran a few bars of some instrumetal guitar pieces I've labored over, and the same thing happened, "poetry". I then looked at a picture of when I was about 5 or 6, then recalled others and times through life, flashes of the past coming and going like a slide show. I tried putting the words, "musician", "writer", "Guitar player", "photographer", "songwriter", to those images and they all fit to some extent but not quite. And then, as though a final piece of a million piece puzzle that has taken 45 years to put together, I used the word "Poet" and I tell you the fit was a revelation.

This was and remains the first and only time that I felt a comfort in assurance of anything near the semblance of identity.

Of course, I still hadn't written or consciously made an effort to write something that I would call a poem. The idea frightened me - and still does - but I knew there was nothing else to do but to at least shuffle forward.

I realized that the poetry forum on Lit was just upstairs from the AH and, with a swallow of air, I made a first introductory post.

Since then I've submitted a few experimental things that a couple readers have been extraordinarily sympathetic towards, these real nice pats on the rump so that I feel more and more comfortable in composing and arranging something that I dare to offer for the exhibition of the public - more fear, but you know? it is nowhere near the degree of stress that I felt when submitting a full-fledged prose thing in the stories section. If that means anything.

I hope that as I continue to learn and gain confidence and comfort I will be able to make some sort of contribution to the workings here.

I still cannot do the Live stuff or off the cuff as I see so much of in so many threads. Maybe someday maybe never, but be certain that I read here and there.

Well, I didn't mean for this to go on so long and there was even more but it's gone off into some other mental hideaway for now.

Anyway, great to be here. I didn't expect the reception to be as warm as it has been. Hope to get to know you all in the future and that everything feels fine between all.

 

[Jeanx2storm]

hi

hi. i'm hoping to meet/work on poems with other writers here on lit. i'm usually daydreaming wherever i am; some might say meditating (and if i'm doing yoga- i do call it that) (smile). Glad to be here.

 

[Susan Strict]

Hi,

My poetry? Not too "serious". I write verse - or cannibalise other poet's verse on occasions - purely for enjoyment, which doesn't mean that I think really good poetry can't be enjoyable. I think it's a great pity when firstly would-be poets start to take themselves too seriously, and secondly when anything other than total seriousness is frowned upon by those who wouldn't know a joke if it bit them on their ****.

Anyway, I'm a firm believer that if you can laugh at yourself, smile at your own particular quirks, foibles and fetishes, then the world will smile with you and will be a far better place. Like poetry, the variations of sex and love are taken far too seriously by far too many. Smiling at your pleasures and with your pleasures - particularly if they happen to be outside the mainstream - is an art that I wish more people would learn, and if just a few people with similar interests to my own can take that from my verse and writing then it all becomes worthwhile.

My site is at ****************** not to everyone's taste, I know, but I like it. Don't go past the first page if it doesn't fit in with your particular interests. I'd much rather you never saw it than were offended by any of it.

Susan

 

[Chamella]

Hi:

I would describe most of my writing as stark, sometimes violent, more than a little unhappy. I feel pressure to write when I am most despondant, when I feel good, I am too busy feeling good to write about it.
I am hoping to grow as a writer here, stretch my content to include lighter subject matter and a broader range of emotional experiences.
For the moment, I'm lurking a bit, reading what others have written, to get a feel for the place. As time passes, I may submit some material for critique.

Chamella

 

[champagne1982]

Hi,

<snip>

My site is at {url deleted} - not to everyone's taste, I know, but I like it. Don't go past the first page if it doesn't fit in with your particular interests. I'd much rather you never saw it than were offended by any of it.

Susan

Well, Susan, posting links to commercial websites or personal pages with links to commercial websites on the Forums is against the literotica guidelines. You can add that link to your forum signature, however. Just visit the How To forum and there should be threads there on how to do just that.

Welcome to the PF&D. Hope to read you soon.

 

[champagne1982]

Hi:

I would describe most of my writing as stark, sometimes violent, more than a little unhappy. I feel pressure to write when I am most despondant, when I feel good, I am too busy feeling good to write about it.
I am hoping to grow as a writer here, stretch my content to include lighter subject matter and a broader range of emotional experiences.
For the moment, I'm lurking a bit, reading what others have written, to get a feel for the place. As time passes, I may submit some material for critique.

Chamella

Welcome to the PoBo Chamella. Hope to read you soon.

 

[Susan Strict]

I take the point about commercial websites, champagne, but the first post on this thread ASKS for links to writing and personal websites - and that's where the bulk of my writing is. You can avoid any commericial element there and stick to the personal, fun bits.

No matter. I don't intend to post it again.

Susan.
(Chilled)

 

[miss_mystery]

Hi there--
I suppose I should stop in and introduce myself. So....

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

-a space to workshop for specific, detailed critique as opposed to fluff (although fluff makes me happy, too)
-inspiration
-read other folk's writings, musings, ponderings, whatnots, and perhaps be able to offer constructive criticism in kind.

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

I'm always honest when giving my opinion on other peoples pomes. I don't think there's much point in beating around the bush, so I won't hold back. That being said, I'd like to tailor my level of response to the context, so if not asked to C&C, I won't.

How would you describe your writing?

Honestly, I've no idea. I think that ultimately, my goal is to induce in my readers sensory response specific to the context. If I write about water, I want the reader to feel wet. And I'm finding it darned difficult. This poetry thing is hard. I don't believe in poems created 'from the heart', although I recognize that many people do. That is to say, getting it bang on the first time is damn near impossible. Very, very few of the greats got it right that first time, or the second, or the third, fourth, or fifth times. I'm an artist/artisan by trade, and the countless amount of hours I've spent in learning my craft would lead me to believe that poetry has a similar mechanism.

My favourite poets include Margaret Atwood, Carol Ann Duffy, Dylan Thomas, Dennis Lee, Sharon Olds, Jane Urquehart, Wislawa Szymborska, and T.S. Eliot...

URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

Haven't got any yet, save the piece in the poetry discussion circle.


Cheers!

 

[goliathtamer]

Waving hello

Greetings and Salutations:

I am not new to Literotica, as over the past few years, a friend here or there has directed me to a story they wrote. I am, however, new to posting poetry in this venue.

All my life, I have received tremendous feedback on my work by those around me and also on the net. What I have encountered quite regularly, however, is that those who consider themselves to be the experts and dictate poetry reviews seem to have a different opinion.

I am quite at peace with that because unlike most poets that forgather here, my poetry is about me. It is not about my reader. I do not aspire to please others, I aspire to get it on paper and enjoy it in its true form.

I also enjoy the feedback I get from my heartfelt work from true people, (other than critique artists on amateur sites or not-so-amateur sites, as it were.)

I had to laugh when I first encountered the posting on poems to let them know they were mentioned in reviews, it seemed to me, pretentious and sincerely an invite to defeat. Clearly it defeats the purpose to write to be mentioned. I write it because it is here, inside me and I have to write it, not because I want to impress others, and that puts great distance between myself and so many on these boards. As I watch the teaching on these boards, I am saddened as I watch so much of the true poet die in the conformity.

However, as I look through history and read the poetry that not only once was, but in my opinion, still is, some of the more progressive and new poetry I read, simply does not appeal to my senses. Half-baked sentences with no complete picture means nothing more to me than a fragmented idea.

I agree with letting the reader use their imagination to fill in the gap but please, if the gap is the size of the Atlantic Ocean, why bother writing it. It becomes more of an Ad-Lib than a shared idea, at least for me.

I am a selfish reader, and therefore a selfish writer, each word relates to my experience, which is the case with some of you. When I can not grip an idea from two words thrown together in an improvised, five-line poem, it is holds no meaning for me.

So what am I saying? I am saying, if it doesn't fit my taste than I can not enjoy it. If it does not fit the poetic rules I have set as law for myself, than I can not look at it as something I would call poetry.

That idea in and of itself, is why, in my opinion, poetry reviews, are a danger to this art. Who am I to tell anyone what is good and what is not? Furthermore, who are you? An education can give you a history and beeline on how to pass the forum with flying colors, but it can not give you spirit, and it can not give you heart, and can not give you feeling, which, after-all, is what makes poetry, in my opinion.

As I read through posts, and repeatedly see people make references to their favorite poets and how this one writes like and that one writes like and how I should study on this poet or that one, I think:

Our predecessors would have scoffed, imagine telling Dante, Milton, Browning, or Petrarch, to work on their imagery, or that their poetry was not acceptable. There was no rule of thumb for them, except for their belief in God. Some of the most beautiful poetry I have read, even here, is poetry that the 'experts' have failed to recognize.

I aspire to be like the greatest poet I know. As my best critic, I say: I want to be like myself. I want my work to be honest and true to me. After all it is my expression of the world, through my eyes. Certainly, there are amateurs and novices and further famous poets that I enjoy and think: wow I wish I had their talent, however, I would not trade for the world. I can only hope to learn from them.

I have one constant rule:

Once a piece is written, no amount of critique will change the way I felt and how I meant to convey my message. I will NOT change it. I learn and I grow but I can not look back on that growth if I changed the history register.


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

The opportunity to read others and hopefully learn from some of the poets I really enjoy here.

Reading, enjoying, and watching the art of defining art. It never ceases to amaze me. I have forever thought of the critic of art as a character from a Renaissance Re-Creation Group. People walking a tight rope as they try to remain the one who defines, and constantly find themselves tripping over their own judgments. I pray I am never that daring that I would come to a group of people and start handing out their right to belong to something everyone is connected to.

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

I would like to remain the one who posts. The one who shares her honesty without the need to change it. I would like to be a student of those who really show heart and expression and have mastered the artistry of feeling. I desire to be the student of the real artist, not the accepted artist who is writing according to the latest rule, but the artist who has really tapped their soul and shared it here.


My role: tempered student without hesitation.


How would you describe your writing?

A partial response from someone else here: This poetry thing is hard. I don't believe in poems created 'from the heart', although I recognize that many people do.

I would have to say that my writing is the exact opposite of what this person had to say. My writing is all feeling and emotion in its entirety. It is not a piece shared to evoke a response within you, it is a piece that tells you how I felt.

My writing is about my experience, in sharing this with you, I know you will feel what I felt, because it is from the heart, our connection on earth means you will feel it too.

Weather or not you like what you felt, that's a horse of another color, and one I like to read about. If my poem was sad and it made you feel sad, I succeed. If it was happy, erotic, whatever the theme, and you feel that after reading it, I succeed. If I am able to share my feeling through words, I succeed.

My response here has been quite extemporaneous, and I refuse to change it...smile, that was meant in jest. :O



URL to your work at lit, personal website etc.

My personal websites are just that, personal. I share my poetry that I wish to share already.

 

[sophieloves]

hello. i've written my first poems since coming here and begun writing out a few fantasies/experiences for others. others will have to be the judge of what i do and i don't know how much will get posted or what my being here might contribute. it's all very new and so i'm feeling my way around.

 

[icey_hearted]

thank you

Hello, All,

Well, am back on Lit. after being gone for about 2 years. Yeah, I missed it. My poetry? Well, I am not here to have my poetry gone over with a fine toothed comb by the "rhyme & meter crew." I don't believe in that, for once everyone else gets done with your poem, and you change here, and you change there, then it is no longer a "from the heart" poem, but belongs to "the judges." My poetry is from the heart, and I use "the rhyme" form, and try to make it flow as best as it comes to me. But I in nowise am a "stick to the rules of rhyme & meter" kind of poet. So, my poetry is here just to maybe bring a smile to someone's face, cause a giggle or a laugh, or maybe make someone think of a concept they've never previously considered.

It's good to be back, and I look forward to being back in this poetry forum.

~ Lonesomepoet

thank you so much. a couple people tell me i need to rhyme my poems or format them. why should i. its my poem, my idea, u dont like just say u dont like it.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Think I'll go ahead and do this.

At age 4 I began defining myself as a writer. I wrote and illlustrated my first short story, which was titled “The Lonely Little Pancake” and had to do with a pancake who wanted a friend. The pancake befriended a monster who then ate him, but then the monster experienced regret and went to a doctor who removed the pancake, and the two became good friends thereafter. They also invited the doctor to lunch.

I graduated from high school at the age of 16 and left my insane home almost immediately, spending my summers in Boston working for my control-freak father and the first year of college at a Christian school in Iowa. I was not a big hit there. I transferred to a university in the midwest, where I spend the next 10 years studying Dead White Men 600 B.C.E. to 1800 C.E. I have the equivalent of two B.A.’s in English Lit (about 220 credit hours) but no actual piece of paper, due to a brilliant, politically motivated piece of self-sabotage in which I refused to apply for a degree as a form of protest against the corrupt institution.

The University listened hard to my reasoning. The administration felt terrible about their lack of consistency and integrity, and they rearranged the entire corrupt world of academia because of my protest. Not.

Meanwhile, I was doing some groundbreaking research in poly- and in-fidelity, going through relationships with both sexes as if they were bags of potato chips. I was a true and honest martyr for love - - and even more, for poetry.

I focused deeply on writing during this period. I made a habit of consciously and deliberately falling in love with people who were unattainable, of creating tragic situations for myself, specifically so that I could generate energy for my poetry. Sometimes I actually attained these people, by mistake and to my, and everyone else’s, detriment. I saw that technique as the only alternative to suicide, the indulgence of many of my favorite poets at the time (Plath, Sexton, Brautigan, and yes, Keats, Poe and Shelley, though you could argue that those were accidental – I would argue that it was easy enough at the time to be passive about it). I did a lot of open mic nights and I formed a tradition of doing live readings barefoot because of a frightening episode with a live performance of Allen Ginsburg’s “Howl”. I wrote in coffee shops until 2 am. I got A’s in all my English classes and B’s in everything else. I was terribly serious about my Craft. I liked best doing performances for various charity benefits.

These days, and for the last 15 years or so, here’s how it works: I journal. I go through about 800 pieces of paper a year, with hand written reports and exercises. When I stare at the paper too long, I get out my Bible, the Poetry Handbook by Babette Deutch. I open it to any page and get an assignment of form. Elegaic, elision, englyn, envoy, epic, epigram, epistle, epithalamion. Once I spent a year or so working through it A to Z, then back again to A. Usually, it’s bibliomancy: I open to any page, get my form assignment, then open another randomly chosen book for a phrase that gives me my topic. They are calisthenics. They are primarily crap, but they keep me limber for those moments when I actually have something to say.

Given that, I’m a shitty poet. For all the work I’ve put into it, I should be much better, much more consistent than I am. I’ve slacked a lot.

Of each journal, most is crap. But I am a classic optimist. Seeing a barn full of manure, I’m inclined to run into it, shouting, “There must be a pony in here somewhere.” I fill about 5 journals a year. I let them sit at least 6 months before I even look at them. Then I have the moment I call “looking for ponies”.

Perhaps the only commonality that I share with the version of me that existed before the death of my only child, a daughter named Rain Michael, is my dedication to writing.

Over the years, I have published many things but I have never “submitted” a single piece of work. Virtually every piece, published mostly in now-defunct new-age rags, has been requested. I make no excuses – maybe it’s fear of failure, apathy or perhaps a simple dislike of the term “submit”. Writing is the one area of my life in which I simply refuse to submit.

As to why I write, I refer that question to Dylan Thomas’ poem “In My Craft or Sullen Art”.

So there ya go.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Why do I write? Because I have to .. even if nobody ever liked any of it I still have to write it down.. starting I think from a pretty crappy childhood it was where I poured my misery and ever since I have always written better when I was less than happy! When I remarried I got a total block! The fact that I am writing again is that a good thing or a bad one considering what I just said?! Oh well the marriage is still in good shape but the rest of life still chucks hard bricks when we aren't looking and it has a pretty good aim.

 

[WhiteWave48]

Visiting

*****

 

[anasee]

....Please, if you will, check in on this thread-- if you are a poet, reader, troll, lurker....

I'm a very shy poet but will be reading much! and maybe even join in now and then

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Hi Anasee I am the sane one

 

[Alephenia]

Roll Call

Hi, I'm Tonya, my friends call me Twisted. I'm here because I love Literotica. I've been reading the stories and poetry for quite some time now, there are a lot of really talented people here. I usually don't post my work on sites, other than Myspace (Mycrack), but I thought this would be a good place for feedback. Constructive criticism is something that helps everybody, especially me. People have told me my writing is very good, but I can never seem to be satisfied, I tend to re-write everything a hundred times. Plus the people who have read it are friends and family, and you never know if they are just trying to help feed your ego. So my point is, I welcome any feedback, be it good or bad, and I thank the reader for taking the time to check me out.

Thanks Man!
Tonya

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.



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)

*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