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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009 edited
     
    Thanks God, we have more and more writers on this forum. We had many similar threads, but all of those died. Let me keep at least this one alive, please!!!!!!

    We can write about our own written materials, we can post our own written materials. Well, because of the limited (or unlimited??????!!!!!! I've never tried this frame's limits) space, poems are more likely to be posted. But if the space lets us, we can write anything. I think this forum's safe enough, and copyrighted, perhaps, although I'm not sure about this, but we can be each others' witnesses, in case if something happens.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009
     
    My first two posts in "I'll See You In My Dreams" are two posts because it was too long for just one. So there is a limit, and it's fairly small--1000 words, maybe 2000 at the most. So if you have something longer than that and you want others to read it, post a link to it.
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009
     
    Link,link...
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009
     
    Thanks for informing us, MrsThing... In that case we'd need a website for it... wouldn't we? Right now I don't intend to post anything longer than a poem, but perhaps others would like to. Can we attach files here? Well, I don't think so, but you know everything, MrsThing!
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    I'm not a writer, but I'll say horray for all of you who are. Hooray. Hooray. Bend a pencil.
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009
     
    OK, thanks, Fan, I hope your bless will be blooming! :bigsmile: And many people'll join us.
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    I'm a little hesitant to post most of my stuff on the internet because I don't have copyrights. I really need to get around to that already! Not that I don't trust people here... it's just something that I think I should do. :)
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009
     
    A separate website would be the best solution, I think. Could we use the one Lozzy or Pythonesque created, or should we make another one? I don't know the first thing about creating a website. (See Chris, I *DON'T* know everything!)
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    I know lots about creating websites as I had to develop my own for The Baboon's Left Testicle (www.mcarthurbaker.co.uk) it's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it works just fine.

    Glad I've found the 'Writers and Poets and Poets Laureats' discussion board at last - was getting concerned there for a moment!!

    Best write something for it. Hmmm......... but what?

    Gary
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    Once upon a Thyme....

    Nah
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009
     
    IT WAS ME WHO CREATED IT!!!! GRRRR!
    • CommentAuthorBodisaniwi
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009
     
    And let's not forget our friends who work for book companies, eh?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2009 edited
     
    I'll never forget you, Niwi. :flowers:

    You, me, Chris, and Zelda are all that's left of the old forum crowd. Not that the new forum crowd is inferior, I just grow nostalgic at odd moments...like the other night when I surprised a possum under my birdfeeders. It was eating birdseed, but as soon as it saw me, it ran away. Then I had a dream about Possum that night. I dreamed she and Turkish got married and had a bunch of kids. :rolling:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009 edited
     
    In one of my stories I called the town where the story's set as Once-Upona-Tyne. It was a newly discovered ancient city...
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
     
    Clo, that's my problem, too. My works aren't copyrighted, either.

    But this idea sounds very good, MrsThing.

    And your dream... Who knows... they vanished... They can get married and have a bunch of kids! :bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
     
    Baboon, or Gary, your website is very funny. Are you involved in the Red Nose Day Fundraising campaign? Wow. And you have a published book... You know what? I hate you... :fierce:

    :bigsmile:
    • CommentAuthorKlara
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
     
    I'm here at your service, Chrispeare...

    My sword and a laurel beside me.
    Let's fight the army of all the fallen
    dreams...
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2009
     
    Thank you, Klara!!!!!

    Chrispeare... :rolling:
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    Ok... here's one that I wrote today....


    After the Frost

    Dark, hollow silence
    There’s nothing left to feel
    Digging down into the depths
    Hitting steel
    Waiting for a meaningful thought
    Aching for desire
    Nothing coming in, nothing going out
    Toss the empty cauldron to the pyre
    The eidolons are swarming
    And waiting at the gate
    The clock is ticking
    Motionless
    The time has come, don’t hesitate
    I’ll want you until you love me
    There’s something wrong beneath these eyes
    I’ll search for you until you find me
    Then I’ll run and hide
    I’ll be the longing lustful devil’s breath
    That whispers in your scarlet dreams
    Wrapped in velvet mystery, spinning--
    I could be anything
    Until you know my secret skin
    I take such care to hide within
    You look into my soul, forgiving
    My damaged heart--it’s not worth saving
    Leave your footprints at my door
    I sweep away the dust
    I’ll break your heart too many times
    Recover me, after the frost

    -Nicole Tancredi 2/3/09
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2009
     
    Very nice, Clo. It expresses your most inner feelings, that's for sure. I think this is what poetry for.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2009 edited
     
    I really like it, Clover! The tension breaks down a little towards the end (or maybe it's my concentration breaking down--more likely), but otherwise it sounds like lyrics to the next big hit. Do you know anyone who could set it to music? Is that something you'd want to do, or do you prefer to let it stand on its own?
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    Well, I didn't intend this one to be a song. I've written songs, too... some of which I've put music to on acoustic guitar. I haven't been picking up my guitar much lately, though. This poem is just an expression of my feelings... as most of them are. A lot of my poetry doesn't follow a paradigm with stanzas and such... some do, but it's not something that is the main focus when I write poetry... Screenplays, yes. They have to follow a paradigm, but I try to cut to the core with my poems.

    This particular poem that I posted, I actually started it a few days before, then finished it yesterday. You might be able to tell where it shifts to a different tone.

    I find it hard to believe that anyone can understand this feeling of emptiness that I sometimes have. It can be scary... If I let it, it envelops me and I feel like I want to just tear off my skin and take off running. It's like all of my thoughts stop and there's nothing but silence. I feel nothing and can't cry. It's just blank. And if I scream for "God", and question my existence and purpose, for some reason, the loneliness just gets worse... as if I'm being shut out. In these times of emptiness, I feel no desire inside me...no passion or drive or ambition. And I don't know why.

    I also wonder if I've ever truly been in love. I always thought I was an extremely passionate person and had so much love to give, and I've loved many people... but I have no lingering feelings for anyone I have ever loved. In most situations, I had to force myself to move on, but eventually I realized that none of them were good for me. And should anyone see me for who I really am...look into my eyes and love ME--My soul and everything behind my eyes--I don't want them and I push them away (I almost become repulsed at the thought of being with them). It's as if I'm looking back into their eyes and I see my reflection and I don't like it. (That's a problem I have to sort out with loving myself... but I'm not sure if I ever truly will...??? Sometimes I think I do, but these feelings of disgust end up resurfacing eventually and I wonder if the self-acceptance was just an illusion.) When I meet a stranger, I can be anything... whatever they want me to be, that's what they see... but that facade never lasts. And maybe I get bored too easily. There's a man in my life who I thought I once loved... he broke my heart and left me and I moved on with someone else. For three years he regretted his mistake and never moved on from me. Now that my last relationship ended, he has been in my life more often, but I can't see him the same way. Now that I KNOW he loves me with every fiber of his being and he looks at me adoringly, I feel nothing. And I push him away so as not to hurt him repeatedly. But no matter what I do, he is always there. There have been at least 3 instances of this type of situation with others, but they just move on because they have to. I just don't know why my feelings change once they are sincere.

    Maybe I just drive myself insane from being so damn introspective and that's why I experience these empty times. I analyze, reanalyze and over analyze EVERYTHING. lol

    SORRY FOR THE LONG-WINDED VENTING!!! :bigsmile:
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2009 edited
     
    In these times of emptiness, I feel no desire inside me...no passion or drive or ambition.
    And I don't know why.
    You strike me as a person who has strong emotions. Maybe it's just your soul insisting on some down time? Or it could be something's out of balance. When I feel like that, I do something that requires physical effort. It seems to get things moving again.
    And should anyone see me for who I really am...look into my eyes and love ME--My soul and
    everything behind my eyes--I don't want them and I push them away (I almost become repulsed
    at the thought of being with them). It's as if I'm looking back into their eyes and I see
    my reflection and I don't like it.
    Believe it or not, you're not alone in feeling this way. It's all part of forming your self. You'll feel better when you're a bit more settled. It took me till my 40s to become comfortable with who I was, but I had a LOT of baggage to sort through, and still find myself running up against the same old walls sometimes.

    Some people look into your eyes, see you for who you are, and love you--because they're thinking how they can change you to fit their needs. Avoid those people like the plague they are. The best thing is to find someone whose eyes welcome you to a soul-world you are compelled to step into, and who is eager to respectfully enter your soul.

    A guy who hasn't moved on in three years after breaking up with you has issues, Clover. IMHO--I don't mean to sound so dogmatic. But your instinct to avoid getting too close is probably right.
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    Yeah. I think he does have some issues lol. He just doesn't open up to people very easily or often.

    I'm pretty keen about figuring out if someone wants to change me, though... and that really hasn't been an issue. The issue lies more in the way I react when someone really DOES love me. Perhaps I just haven't found a good fit yet... and perhaps I don't want to yet. Who knows. Thank you for your words, MrsThing. :)
    • CommentAuthorMiss cloveR
    • CommentTimeFeb 4th 2009 edited
     
    And it's true, I do have strong emotions... or I used to, anyway. It seems like somehow I've become muted. It's almost as if I've switched to the opposite side of the fence and now I try to think logically and rationally about love and emotions, where as I used to be a fervent believer in the concept that "love is not logical" and emotions cannot be rationalized. What happened to me?
    Here's a quote by a Polish artist that I always remember: “Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.” Have I become dangerous? lol Geeze.

    For a while I was feeling completely happy with myself...very Zen... but somehow, along the way, I end up losing those feelings. Like I'm not being productive enough and I'm wasting my life away. It makes me feel dead inside, and even though I'm young, I just feel like I'm dying.

    It should probably be proof enough that I still have strong emotions deep down because I keep using the words "I feel". I just need to force myself out of these ruts when they happen and avoid getting stuck in the inertia.
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    LOL thanks for being my therapist, MrsThing! lol

    Thus endeth the psychoanalyzing. I've had my whine, now pass the cheese!
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2009 edited
     
    Here ya go:




    GAWD, isn't he beautiful?!
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    Heheh. Oh hell yeah. :wink::cool:

    Thank you, MrsThing. I needed that!:bigsmile:
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    I think I'll share one of my old songs, too. I wrote this almost 7 years ago... I started to write music to it, but never finished it.

    Still Waters

    Change is what I wish to see
    What I want to be
    But I’m too lazy and all wrapped up
    Caught in the slipstream of my wandering thoughts.
    Left somewhere amongst the cobwebs
    In the corners of my soul
    I have the courage and the will
    To smile and tell myself
    I’d never lost control.

    Do you see
    You’re just like me?
    Is it my self-indulgent delusion,
    Or was I put before you for a reason?
    Could this be
    The only thing
    That can calm this dissonant storm?
    Ease my nerves and make this life
    As simple as
    Still waters

    All the times I thought I knew
    What was real and what was true
    Was just a sketch, an empty silhouette.
    Everything that’s real is you.
    I wish I could be everything
    Everything you need
    Lie down upon my wing and sleep
    And you could sail over the night
    I wish I could make this life
    As easy as
    Still waters

    Time will tell what the future holds
    But I don’t want to wait.
    Waiting for life to happen
    Takes away the meaning of “To Live”
    And it passes by
    Without a trace
    I only wish that I could be
    The one who makes your life complete.
    Everything around me has lost its life and splendor
    Just to rest within your arms would ease the pain
    Could stop this cold and endless rain
    And could make this life seem
    As beautiful as
    Still waters

    -N.T.



    Also, I really like this one. This one is even older. (By the way, if you've ever seen the movie Fight Club, you'll get the meaning behind the title.)


    I am Jack’s Tormented Soul

    Have you ever pushed away a fantasy
    Because it seemed too out of reach?
    Sought comfort in your icy blankets
    Put on a façade
    Just so isolation could not consume
    All that’s left of you.
    Have you ever dreamed of death,
    Pretend it to be sweet
    And then to witness death, you find
    It’s just a ridiculous dream.
    Have you ever spoken words
    That run like water from your tongue,
    Escaping from an empty heart
    Like reading scripts
    Feeling so numb.
    Your soul drips a solitary tear
    It screams for help, but no one hears.
    Drowned by your silence,
    You tuck yourself away
    And mingle in the shadows
    For another wasted day.


    Pisces

    Dark wing of death
    Steals the breath of my sweet Pisces
    And leaves her song, heavy in my heart
    Where has softness gone?
    Died with her so long ago.
    She speaks
    Like a tiny feather floating on the shoulder of a breeze
    Once so fragile
    Perfect
    Shattered glass
    Quick deception, spoken fast
    The ocean washes her away.

    -N.T.
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    I'm really bearing my soul by posting those, because my heart was so vulnerable when those were written. :cry:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2009 edited
     
    ANNOUNCEMENT:

    I DISCUSS THE DETAILS OF PUBLISHING/PRINTING OUR FORUM-POEMS WITH MY FRIEND, WHO WORKS AT A PUBLISHER’S/PRINTER’S. HE CAN TELL ME MORE CERTAIN INFOS NEXT WEEK.

    THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BE PUBLISHED AND SOLD, BECAUSE THE BOOK WOULD BE READY BY THE TIME OF THE PLANNED CELEBRATION IN SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER. MRSTHING’S IDEA ABOUT YOU-KNOW-WHO’S BDAY PREZZIE ALSO COULD BE INVOLVED IN THIS PRINTED/PUBLISHED MATERIAL.

    IT’S VERY LIKELY THAT THE PUBLISHING WOULD BE COST NOTHING, AND ONLY THE PRINTING EXPENSES WOULD BE PAID. IN AN EARLIER DISCUSSION I WROTE THE PRICES (AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER!, BUT IT COSTS ABOUT 1.90 GBP, 2.50 USD, 2 EUROS/BOOK, although, it depends on the length, the number of pages), BUT, THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE, HOWEVER, IT’S NOT SURE YET, THAT IT’D COST EVEN LESS. AND, THE MORE OF US TAKE PART, THE LESS WE HAVE TO PAY.

    SO, PLEASE, ANY OF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS BOOK-PUBLISHING STUFF, WRITE/WHISPER ME BACK.

    NEW POEMS ARE AWAITED BY THE SILLY MARCH FORTH… AHEMMM, BY THE SILLY MARCH FOURTH (4TH OF MARCH 2009)!!!!!!

    SO, AS YOU CAN SEE, I EXPANDED THE DEADLINE FROM 31 OF DECEMBER TO 4TH MARCH!
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2009
     
    I'm interested, but I want to have final approval on what stuff of mine gets in, and I want to edit it myself. Other than that, I'm fine with it.
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2009
     
    Yeah, sure, of course, everybody can decide which of ger/his poems could be published! Just let me know, please, towards the end! :bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2009
     
    I help you in editing your own poems. Because I collect the poems continuously, I can send everybody's poems back for a check-up. I whisper them back to you! :bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2009
     
    I've already whispered to a couple of members. To have a look at their/your poems.

    Of course I'm not going to do anything with them without permissions from you.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2009
     
    Thanks for that chris!!! it was quite amusing reading through all my 'poems' i didnt realise that i had typed so many lol...some made me laugh out loud haha, laughing out loud at my own stuff...that's just lame!!!

    Anyway....i like the one about father having a wash and mother picking daisies...but hey, use them all if you wish :) theyre all funny haha, apart from that last one...dont use the last one.
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    Clover, your character sounds like an artist indeed. Maybe you should use this nice, calm Ernie and Bert song for your lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InZNBcJTmWs&feature=related

    Chris, does your friend need copy-editors? I'm applying.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2009
     
    thanks chris.
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2009
     
    I'll ask my friend, Niwi, thanks for the offer!
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    Thanks, Niwi. :) LMFAO @ Bert & Ernie's "calm" song! hahaha!!!:rolling:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 10th 2009
     
    NEW FORUM-MEMBERS AND GUESTS ARE ALSO ENCOURAGED TO BE INVOLVED... (WELL, OF COURSE, GUESTS MUST TO REGISTER AT FIRST TO GAIN THE ABILITY TO DROP A LINE HERE). :bigsmile:
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2009
     
    :shamed:No.no. I have very little memory of that particular tune! I do believe I was in the Holiday Inn near Houston after a long tearry's day's drive. I do appreciate your attention to me regarding this musical perfluity. I do love you members dear...I do depend on Sis and all to keep me out of the 8th floor psychiatry ward.:cry:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2009
     
    Oh, poor, Zelda...
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2009
     
    No,not at all, but you know how families and money get when the two combine. No Foote and I get alone better than most; and love our own little families here and there.:grouphug::grouphug::kiss::twosome:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2009
     
    That's great, Zelda. :bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2009
     
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2009
     
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2009
     
    A former neighbor had a cat that loved to swim. It would jump in the swimming pool with the kids, jump in the bathtub, etc. Poor thing nearly drowned once when it jumped in the pool with a lot of kids and no one noticed until I saw him struggling unsuccessfully to keep his head above water. He survived, but stayed away from the pool after that. Still loved the bathtub, though.
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      CommentAuthorchris14
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2009
     
    Oh, poor thing... May I call him Cat-thing, after your family, MrsThing? :bigsmile:
    • CommentAuthorzelda
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2009
     
    Take it away...Kind of hokey, isn't it?
 

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