Yeah I learned that people don't like it. SIdes ur poems are good enough to get a review themselves.
If ignorence is bliss I'm the happiest kid on earth.
Give me the beat boys and free my soul! I wanna getta lost in ya rock n' roll and drift away. Drift away...
I enjoy your introspective, 'secret pain' outlook in your poetry, as I've used that technique many a time. I also like the melancholic last line, as well as in 'Beachy Head'.
Also, after reading this: "have you read the two poems i posted tonight? got a very rude reception for them, i found". I would give you one piece of advice, which I've found useful over the last few years: First and foremost write for yourself, and if someone else likes it, then it's a bonus -
It's hard to please everyone, but my writing pleases me as it's something I've produced, whether it be mainsteam or not.
Also, just to let you know, it's often impossible to write on the forums without someone picking your posts apart, but at least a couple of us are on the same wave length.
Keep going.
Ah now, I thought you were referring to Closing Doors' replies at the top being altered to mere shrugs and sighs... Maybe it's not the teapot, maybe it's the hallucinagenics I took with the tea.
It would be better if you'd add a hyperlink so we don't have to go fishing through all the entries.
But don't ask me how to do it anymore. They changed the site and I have yet to figure out how to navigate.
Thanks for the link, camus!
I think they're two different peeps, though, guys. Subject matter's too different.
I'll make a comment on the -poem-, then.
Having a family member whose girlfriend slipped off the cliff at Beachy Head (and not by accident...) this is an interesting little reflection on suicide. I like the image of slipping off the cliff, naturally; the first two stanzas are the strongest, I think. The last line seems a little weak, somehow, perhaps because of a perception of mine says that the word 'complete' implies a sense of satisfaction; I don't know how someone who has committed suicide could feel 'complete' in that sense (but I'm sure you didn't mean it in this way...).
But the general 'voice' of the poem is good...
I agree... I think that I was trying a bit too hard to be like Plath with that final line. "Complete" does make sense though - suicide as an intellectual idea, a romantic ideal as opposed to the true, devastating reality of it. I don't like the way the voice changes to first-person in the last line.. though I'm sure that I could qualify it if I had to. Thanks for your comments, though.
Give me the beat boys and free my soul! I wanna getta lost in ya rock n' roll and drift away. Drift away...
Give me the beat boys and free my soul! I wanna getta lost in ya rock n' roll and drift away. Drift away...
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