(11-25-2015, 05:17 AM)Overthetop Wrote: [ -> ]Hello hello hello. Just popped in to say hello, and am looking forward to reading great poetry! Enjoy your life
Great, we need more readers. Some people (I won't mention the websites) think you can write
without being able to read. "Think" is too strong a word for what they do; "write" doesn't even apply...
oh, wait, sorry, I apologize for the mini-rant; It's just that when you mentioned looking forward to reading,
I was overwhelmed with joy.
I sincerely welcome you the PigPen,
Ray
Hello everyone, another new member here. I'm really looking forward to reading, submitting and absorbing anything I can on this forum. I've read through around 100 pieces on here so far, before actually posting anything, so it looks like I'll be in the company of a rather talented group. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible within the confines of this vast electrically driven universe.
Hi, Merfyn, thanks for the critiques you've already given to others, they are appreciated.
Glad to have you here, I hope you enjoy the site.
Croeso, Merfyn -- love the comments you've left around the place. It doesn't take much to make us happy but when you do, you're stuck here for life.
I'm not kidding. Ellajam only stopped by to drop off some cookies, and that was in 1933.
Ahhhh, the cookies though. <sigh> I still remember the cookies.
(11-26-2015, 01:17 AM)Merfyn Dafydd Wrote: [ -> ]Hello everyone, another new member here. I'm really looking forward to reading, submitting and absorbing anything I can on this forum. I've read through around 100 pieces on here so far, before actually posting anything, so it looks like I'll be in the company of a rather talented group. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible within the confines of this vast electrically driven universe.
"so it looks like I'll be in the company of a rather talented group."
This may not work on everyone, but it does on me.
But seriously: I too have read your comments and I found them quite thoughtful.
Consider yourself warmly welcomed,
Ray
The fabled cookies!!
I'd always thought they were a myth; a vision that came to billy during one of his "dreams".
Of course, billy is probably a myth as well, propagated by Leanne for some devious purpose.
What would a cookie that old taste like? "Can you not taste, the carnivorous waste?"
Hello, my name is to lower expectations jajaja. Currently experiencing writers block. Nice to meet you, I'm badatpoetry.
hi badpoetry and welcome,
thanks for the two feedbacks given so far. we do have a
poetry practice exercise forum where you can work on the writers block problem.
most of us already have low expectations
Hue, I think it would be better for me to post in novice forum first; I don't think spamming the practice forum is best way to be productive on the site. Plus I may be able to just grind out feedback since I have insomnia and nothing better to do.
grinding out feedback would suite us fine
(11-26-2015, 10:56 AM)Badatpoetry101 Wrote: [ -> ]Hello, my name is to lower expectations jajaja. Currently experiencing writers block. Nice to meet you, I'm badatpoetry.
"Successful lives require high expectations, happy ones low." - Earnest Peal
(11-26-2015, 11:10 AM)Badatpoetry101 Wrote: [ -> ]Hue, I think it would be better for me to post in novice forum first; I don't think spamming the practice forum is best way to be productive on the site. Plus I may be able to just grind out feedback since I have insomnia and nothing better to do.
Einstein credited his initial concept of the theory of special relativity to (paraphrase from the
original German): "insomnia and nothing better to do".
Any feedback, either ground or in chunks, is lauded; helpful feedback, more so.
If you grant me the benefit of low expectations, I promise likewise.
Welcome,
Ray
thanks new friend! 'Preciate it. I'll try my best.
Hello, just signed on. I am already thrust into some discomfort, after reading the rules I am obligated to give meaningful feedback before I can post. Not sure I have a lot to post quite yet. However from the past I do recall how stingy it can be to get "workshopped" so I have been reluctant to do so for others.
I usually lurk on forums before posting much, so if I say hello and then disappear forgive.
I haven't written a lick of poetry since college, when I was reasonably good at doing so. At least, none has been put down. I hope to do so in the future again, I think I have been neglecting a part of myself.
My poems in the past were all hand written and then transferred to type. That was before EVERYONE had personal computers. I have a fair bit of growth to do if I can actually do it. Anyway, will try to be a constructive member, and will add a picture soon.
Hi, aschueler, welcome to the Pen. As a beginning critic you can try hanging around in Novice for a while. Read the important threads and critique tips and I think you'll find it's not too difficult to provide a few meaningful comments on the poems there. Learning by doing works.
Take your time, I hope you enjoy the site.
Greetings newcomers
To all of you who've jumped straight in with considered comments in the critical forums, thank you! This is what our site is for -- sharing knowledge in the spirit of mutual improvement. There are plenty of posts around the site (most at the top of the critical forums) that will help you if you're not sure what your critique should look like; alternatively, reading a few of those by other members will assist also.
If you've arrived and really just want to jump straight in and share your most heartfelt words with us, you might need to reconsider whether this is really the site you want to join. We love to read your poems, but we will also be telling you what we really think about them and it may not match up to what you were told by your parents, your favourite teacher, or the guy who told you he'd publish everything you've ever written provided you bought 100 copies of the book. If this will break your heart and destroy any desire you have to ever talk to another human being, you should probably consider not sticking around for that devastating event.
When a moderator has kindly sent you a message pointing out that we don't really need to know if you like a poem, or if it gives you "real feels man, right in the gut", but we do need evidence that you've actually read the poem and are responding in a critical manner rather than just posting to get your three critiques on the board so you can drop your awesome feels right back on us... don't then use nasty language in reply to said moderator, because it's really best not to irritate the person with the power to ban you in an instant. Our moderators put up with a huge amount of crap, but adding yours might just topple the pile onto you.
And above all, if someone has taken the time to give you critical feedback -- even, and perhaps especially, if you disagree with it -- take it on board and see if there's anything you can use when you go to edit your poem. Don't get all pompous on us and tell us how many times you've been published or how many people on other sites have loved you, because we all know that there's a huge deficiency in poetry reading and appreciation skills out there. No matter how many credits you have to your name, you're only as good as the last thing you write and if it's crap, having people around you who will tell you it's crap and thus protect you from being crap in public is a gift that you should appreciate with every breath in your body.
So, to summarise: hello, welcome, don't give mods shit and don't make us ban you.
Hi, i'm RaisedByRobots. I'll be lurking for a while.
(12-06-2015, 05:19 AM)RaisedByRobots Wrote: [ -> ]Hi, i'm RaisedByRobots. I'll be lurking for a while.
I LOVE your moniker!
And lurking is sincerely appreciated by all of us who enjoy displaying our ignorance in public.
Lurking in the "Novice Poet and Critic", "Poems For Mild Critique", and "Serious Workshopping" forums;
and reading the critiques posted there is an excellent way to prepare for the eventuality (should
you wish it) of un-lurking. There are plenty of examples in them, some of them bad ones, of how you
should go about critiquing. As my father said: "There's lots more to be learned from bad examples
than from good ones." (My sister usually pointed at me, and I her.)
Welcome,
Ray
(12-06-2015, 05:19 AM)RaisedByRobots Wrote: [ -> ]Hi, i'm RaisedByRobots. I'll be lurking for a while.
Lurk away, we're (almost) an open book. Lurking is a great way to get a feel for the site, hope you like it and decide to join in.
Hi everyone!
My name is Kevin Martin and I am an inspirational writer, poet, and lyricist from Northwest Ohio. I suck at introducing myself. So if you are interested, here is my work:
http://www.joshuaonenine.org.
(Was that a good intro? Ugh, so sorry.)
I'm so excited to join you all!
Talk with you soon,
Kevin
Welcome, I am ready to be inspired.