Hello everyone. I'm new to this site and somewhat new to poetry.

Hi everybody from Seattle, WA.

I just started participating in open mic poetry and I want a forum to post my stuff to from time to time while gaining ideas. I hope to graduate to poetry slams in the future.

See you around!

St. Dan

(02-17-2013, 01:52 PM)Martus Wrote:  hi im marcus, from new zealand. interested to see how this goes.

you didn't last long

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hi to the new guys
welcome to the site.

Hi marc -- "crit" doesn't need to be about structure, it can be about anything. How it sounds, how it makes you feel, just the general vibe of the poem. You'd be surprised how much help just one simple comment can be. Welcome!

Welcome Shailenza -- what a pleasure to see your thoughtful comments around the place. Thank you!

So many new people these past 2 days. It's kind of hard to keep up. Hi everyone!

i think we're on about 5 day

hello everyone

so I'm the newbie here. =] I've been writing poetry since before I can remember. I can still recite a lot of the poems I wrote as a child. guess they stick with me the most.

I've never shared much of my poetry... it's intensely personal, of course, and I've always had that anxiety (I'm sure many of you know it... that "what if they hate it, what if they see all the dark in me, what if they get scared, what if what if what if..." feeling) stopping me. But I do really feel it's the time in my life to take my poetry to the next level... so what better way than the personal impersonality of a forum? =]

Please do read what I post, please do comment. as far as how I write, I don't like rhymes, I don't like constricting rhythm, and I find it hard to write about happy subjects (not to say I don't have happiness in my life... it just doesn't push me to write about it). I use capitals and punctuation as I see fit for each poem. I do love imagery, and I love poems that are abstract enough that for me they spell it all out, but (hopefully) for you they say something totally different.

I'll do my best to leave constructive feedback for others as well, I've browsed a bit and liked what I saw, it'll be nice to read the poetry here.

also, hope it's not a faux pas, but I'm going to skip the "novice" area and jump straight into mild critique.

It'll be nice to get to know you all. =]

Hi goldyfish,

It isn't a faux pas at all. Where you post is often more dictated by the level of critiques you're comfortable leaving. It's good to have you here. Welcome!

Todd

hi goldyfish, i'll have a read of the poems tomorrow as i'm out for a meal in short whie.

Hi my name is smithy, i am a 23 year old male from England. My interests are beatboxing seeing friends and spending alot of time outside. i am very new to writing poems but i have alot going on in my life right now so i wrote a poem and really enjoyed it so i thought i would join up here

Hi..Looking forward to writting and reading poetry and exchanging views.

Hi escorial and welcome to TPP

Thankyou

just adding, great to see you giving feedback else where

(02-27-2013, 08:07 PM)escorial Wrote:  Hi..Looking forward to writting and reading poetry and exchanging views.

welcome to the site

Hi, Escorial good to see you here.

Hi so glad i came across this forum looking forward to sharing and learning, I'm not great at critique but shall try my best.

that's what we like to see

hi and welcome saeity

saeity welcome to TPP