What Beat the Poetry Forum into the Ground

[WriterDom]

See, I livened up the party already. As we're on the brink of a forum to forum war. I leaving though to shoot the potato cannon. Be back tomorrow if I don't blow myself up

 

[Tzara]

See, I livened up the party already. As we're on the brink of a forum to forum war. I leaving though to shoot the potato cannon. Be back tomorrow if I don't blow myself up

War? Hardly. Seems to me more like a discussion. Discussions sometimes are contentious.

It is good to see some folks from That Other Place offer some opinions.

I want potato cannon pictures, though. Just sayin'.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Were we dull before then?

 

[annaswirls]

See, I livened up the party already. As we're on the brink of a forum to forum war.

You see it as a forum to forum war? Hmm. I saw a bunch of people in discussion (albeit heated) debate. I do not side with one forum, and speak for myself and not a pre-conceived group. I do not think you speak for an entire forum, do you?

I almost just stuck out my tongue, but I realized it was childish.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

You see it as a forum to forum war? Hmm. I saw a bunch of people in discussion (albeit heated) debate. I do not side with one forum, and speak for myself and not a pre-conceived group. I do not think you speak for an entire forum, do you?

I almost just stuck out my tongue, but I realized it was childish.

*applauds*

 

[annaswirls]

*applauds*

did you like my intellectual phrasology of "discussion debate"

or the way I bit my tongue

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

did you like my intellectual phrasology of "discussion debate"

or the way I bit my tongue

I liked your use of "heated debate" - so sexy. If you hadn't bitten it I would have.

 

[annaswirls]

I liked your use of "heated debate" - so sexy. If you hadn't bitten it I would have.

you deviant!

tongue biting is not usually my thing, but now that you bring it up....

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Where is everybody? I need you to be where I left you. Have you all contracted 'Husband in the Mall' syndrome? i.e the inability to stay where they are left but must wander off somewhere "But I was just looking at ....... Dear."

 

[Epmd607]

Post a new poem and they might come out of the forest to congratulate you.

 

[annaswirls]

Post a new poem and they might come out of the forest to congratulate you.

poems? pshaw... you gotta start a fight

 

[bogusagain]

Any ideas?

Facebook?
Second life?
Other poetry sites?
Boredom?
Splitting the PFD in two?



I have never seen it this slow.

People have always come and go, but it seemed that there was always a core to keep things alive.

It's difficult to say but there is a distinct lack of energy, maybe a lack of chemistry would be a better word and a catalyst is needed.

Since being away, moving and getting settled, I was looking forward to jumping back into the forum but something has been lacking so I just remain hovering, just on the edge but never, never a a a a a actually..........huuuh, another anti-climax.

Hey, but how has your poetry career been going? Any book to be published? I keep looking in on Mannenquinenvy every nowand again. You still seem busy.

 

[annaswirls]

It's difficult to say but there is a distinct lack of energy, maybe a lack of chemistry would be a better word and a catalyst is needed.

Since being away, moving and getting settled, I was looking forward to jumping back into the forum but something has been lacking so I just remain hovering, just on the edge but never, never a a a a a actually..........huuuh, another anti-climax.

Hey, but how has your poetry career been going? Any book to be published? I keep looking in on Mannenquinenvy every nowand again. You still seem busy.

I think maybe we have all been married to each other too long It is the 7 year itch.

Maybe we need to wrap ourselves in cellophane or something to get the spark back in.

My poetry career? heheh. I have not even submitted anything in years, but thanks for asking! Mannequin is going along swimmingly.

A year ago, a few people in my community and I started a non-profit, and that takes a lot of my energy and focus. We are a year old now, and things are rolling, but to get the momentum going is a strain. Thing that really really sucks is we worked so hard and raised a considerable amount of awareness and funding, but most families still cannot afford the services we are trying to make more accessible to all.

grrrrr.....

hopefully next year.

Hey, thanks for asking! How are you? A friend of mine moved from Prague to Berlin a year or so back (I can't keep track of that bugger) Maybe you know him.

 

[annaswirls]

Anyone know where Lauren is? The survivor garden has been unattended in ages, wilting on the vine. Makes me a wee bit sad as this contest had sparked some enthusiasm for writing around here.

I hope she is okay....

 

[bogusagain]

I think maybe we have all been married to each other too long It is the 7 year itch.

Maybe we need to wrap ourselves in cellophane or something to get the spark back in.

Now that sounds interesting.

Hey, thanks for asking! How are you?

Now if you really want to know and aren't being politie, I'm doing great and I've landed on my feet. I've got a great apartment (small and cosy) in a great area of the city and I'm doing some teaching to fund my art work. Most of my students are 18-21 year old females which give me the dailly hots but I control myself and keep my amorous attentions away from the institution. There is a mature Spanish student that is pursuing me, at 35, if she doesn't know her own mind she never will so I might buckle there. Other than that, I have realised that age is turning me from a potential partner for women into a dirty old man so I'm trying hard to keep my integrity. Not something that comes natural to someone with my disposition. I could have a proper job and family home to keep up so I count my blessings. When I need a shoulder to cry on, I use Elga's breasts, she's the barmaid in my local.

 

[annaswirls]

of course I really wanted to know you goof.

glad you are doing well in your new spot, and all I can think about is Harrison Ford and that cute co-ed in the front row with want you written on her eye lids.

you should definitely buckle the 35 year old. After finals.

Remember that a man with talent, charm, intelligence and a healthy sex drive is not a dirty old man, he is incredibly sexy. Be gentle with us.

I wish I had Elga's breasts. What a lovely lucky lady.


Thanks for filling us in!

Now that sounds interesting.



Now if you really want to know and aren't being politie, I'm doing great and I've landed on my feet. I've got a great apartment (small and cosy) in a great area of the city and I'm doing some teaching to fund my art work. Most of my students are 18-21 year old females which give me the dailly hots but I control myself and keep my amorous attentions away from the institution. There is a mature Spanish student that is pursuing me, at 35, if she doesn't know her own mind she never will so I might buckle there. Other than that, I have realised that age is turning me from a potential partner for women into a dirty old man so I'm trying hard to keep my integrity. Not something that comes natural to someone with my disposition. I could have a proper job and family home to keep up so I count my blessings. When I need a shoulder to cry on, I use Elga's breasts, she's the barmaid in my local.

 

[bogusagain]

I wish I had Elga's breasts. What a lovely lucky lady.

I keep telling myself I should write a poem about such impossible breasts. They are big and I mean big but self supporting, you can tell because she doesn't wear a bra and that they are genuine (believe me, I know about these things). I've never been a big breast man myself (not that I find them a turn off, variety is the spice of life after all) but Elga's are so impossible it makes the mind boggle. It makes a healthy man want to be bury his head between them.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I keep telling myself I should write a poem about such impossible breasts. They are big and I mean big but self supporting, you can tell because she doesn't wear a bra and that they are genuine (believe me, I know about these things). I've never been a big breast man myself (not that I find them a turn off, variety is the spice of life after all) but Elga's are so impossible it makes the mind boggle. It makes a healthy man want to be bury his head between them.

they won't be self supporting for long if she keeps going braless .... take it from one who knows

 

[WriterDom]

they won't be self supporting for long if she keeps going braless .... take it from one who knows

Is that why my ex would sleep in a bra?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Is that why my ex would sleep in a bra?

Probably that time of the month they get painful then

 

[JamesCiriaco]

As a new participant here at Literotica, this is what I see on the first page of these forums: tremendously long, ancient threads, peopled for the most part by the same old hands, all of whom seem to have a history together.

While there's nothing wrong with being an old hand, or with long-established relationships, I would suggest that the thread structure here makes it difficult for a new writer to break in. I've looked several times for a place to do so, and haven't really found it. The threads as they stand give the impression of a closed community, of wagons having been circled.

Perhaps this isn't the case. The recommendations thread seems to have been welcoming to new poets. I'm just describing, from an outsider's perspective, how the framework of the forum strikes one upon first visiting. It might help to explain whatever dearth of new blood you've noticed.

 

[Angeline]

As a new participant here at Literotica, this is what I see on the first page of these forums: tremendously long, ancient threads, peopled for the most part by the same old hands, all of whom seem to have a history together.

While there's nothing wrong with being an old hand, or with long-established relationships, I would suggest that the thread structure here makes it difficult for a new writer to break in. I've looked several times for a place to do so, and haven't really found it. The threads as they stand give the impression of a closed community, of wagons having been circled.

Perhaps this isn't the case. The recommendations thread seems to have been welcoming to new poets. I'm just describing, from an outsider's perspective, how the framework of the forum strikes one upon first visiting. It might help to explain whatever dearth of new blood you've noticed.

Hi, and welcome. I'm a moderator on the poetry forum though I'm mostly flying under the radar these days.

Your post makes me kind of sad because I've been here a long time, an old hand, yes, but the last thing I ever wanted for this forum was that it give the impression you got: that the wagons are circled. Imho what has always kept this forum going is new writers. We need fresh ideas, fresh inspiration, new ways of seeing things. Otherwise we all begin to sound alike, writing the same themes, using the same phrasings and techniques, breaking lines similarly. That's not good for the forum or any of us as individual poets. Again, just my opinion, but when we push the envelope by writing on new themes and in ways that aren't so comfortable for us, we grow as poets. That's why fresh perspectives are so important.

So yes there are some very old threads, especially on the first page. I don't think that's meant to put anyone new off, rather they are ways to approach writing a poem that seem to work well for many people. The "All of a Sudden Passion, Suddenly" thread, for example, requires new, first draft writing without a lot of forethought. It's a good place to be experimental and try new things. You may have noticed that most poems there are not polished pieces--that's because it's not a "workshop" thread. But there's a "Poetry in Progress" thread that allows one to write anew and then get feedback and edit or bring back an old poem to get feedback and try to rework the poem. There are other critique oriented threads as well. There's a "ten word" thread (and a three word one) that allows one to put a snippet of an idea up, maybe just a phrase, something that can maybe be worked into something more eventually. So I guess I'm trying to say that the threads are old because the concepts work.

There aren't many people around these days, true. This forum (like all forums, I suppose) goes through up and downs and bloodlettings. We recently went through some upheaval and I've no doubt that there are still hurt feelings as a result. I know how I feel about it, and I haven't been able to shake the discomfort I got from it and just write here the way I once did. I suspect some of the other "old hands" may feel the same. But, that also means there's opportunity here for new folks to jump in and move this place in new directions. Maybe you are one of those people.

Please feel free to post anywhere and/or start new threads. If you know other poets who are not writing here now, feel free to bring them in. Everyone is welcome everywhere here. Really. And that includes the new poems recommendations thread. Anyone is welcome to recommend new poems (or old ones they like, for that matter). Really, we are not a closed society. Not at all. If anything I think people like me are just tired having been here so long, and are hoping new folks will come and do their thing and move us in new directions.

 

[WickedEve]

I would suggest that the thread structure here makes it difficult for a new writer to break in. I've looked several times for a place to do so, and haven't really found it.

When I'm on a new forum -- and don't easily find a thread to post on -- I simply begin a new one. Hope you will start an interesting thread, if you haven't already. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[JamesCiriaco]

So yes there are some very old threads, especially on the first page. I don't think that's meant to put anyone new off, rather they are ways to approach writing a poem that seem to work well for many people. The "All of a Sudden Passion, Suddenly" thread, for example, requires new, first draft writing without a lot of forethought. It's a good place to be experimental and try new things. You may have noticed that most poems there are not polished pieces--that's because it's not a "workshop" thread. But there's a "Poetry in Progress" thread that allows one to write anew and then get feedback and edit or bring back an old poem to get feedback and try to rework the poem. There are other critique oriented threads as well. There's a "ten word" thread (and a three word one) that allows one to put a snippet of an idea up, maybe just a phrase, something that can maybe be worked into something more eventually. So I guess I'm trying to say that the threads are old because the concepts work.

It's clear that these threads have been quite successful. I haven't said otherwise. I do think that potential new participants may be reluctant to join a conversation that has been going on for four or five years. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, however, and I've just happened to look at the forum at a moment when new poets haven't been jumping in.

Thank you for the invitation to post. I'll keep an eye open for more recent threads, and if something occurs to me-- something interesting, as per WickedEve's request-- I'll certainly start one of my own.

 

[Safe_Bet]

It's clear that these threads have been quite successful. I haven't said otherwise. I do think that potential new participants may be reluctant to join a conversation that has been going on for four or five years. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, however, and I've just happened to look at the forum at a moment when new poets haven't been jumping in.

Thank you for the invitation to post. I'll keep an eye open for more recent threads, and if something occurs to me-- something interesting, as per WickedEve's request-- I'll certainly start one of my own.

Yeah, I've always thought that Angeline and WickEve were kind of the stuffy, stodgy sort... ya know, kinda hard to get engaged in an intellegent conversation (that is unless of course the subject is stuffy & stodgy dildos, zombies, road kill or possum porn... )