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Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Leanne - 04-05-2013 Some very useful advice -- we've probably said it all before but there's always someone who's missed it and reading this might save you some embarrassment. Quote:Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - billy - 04-05-2013 there are more, 6th could be thinking you written a great poem...the odds are you haven't RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Leanne - 04-05-2013 oh, there are many many more RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - NakedBear - 04-05-2013 I've often been guilty of 1, 4 and 6. Especially 6. Mikey. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Leanne - 04-05-2013 everyone's guilty of 6 RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Todd - 04-05-2013 Six doesn't last long. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Leanne - 04-05-2013 It's because you insist on couplets. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Todd - 04-05-2013 It's because I insist on words. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Leanne - 04-05-2013 Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - billy - 04-05-2013 i think the articles author hit the nail when she said all those new to writing (poetry in this case) make the same mistakes. often when such mistakes are pointed out they think a nuke has just landed on their lap i know i went through that phase. wtf did that bastard just say about my writing...it's full of cliche? and what does that bitch know......and these feeling of rage carry on for quite a time. eventually when enough people point the same facts out we get cruisy, start admitting our guilt before we know we've fucked up. go on, rip it apart, it's okay, or say what you want, i've got a thick skin...then we think wtf did that bastard just say about my writing...it's full of cliche? and what does that bitch know......and these feeling of rage carry on for quite a time. it the stage of "i think i can take critique" in which we're still too thin skinned. we're getting there but just not yet. eventually we do a bit of reading, not forum poetry but some of the classics, some good quality stuff and it clicks, they were right about cliche and stuff. the next poem they write has 1 maybe two cliche in 20 lines of poetry. this fact is pointed out in a worsdhop and inside they think. YES! i'm a poet. they're genuinely happy because they have two instead of 20 they realise that poetry has a lot to do with working, learning and trying to improve, they get it that not everything is good poetry, they start seeing the bad parts in other peoples poetry and try to steer clear of making the same mistakes. they really are poets. they've grown and learnt to take their first steps in the crafting of poetry. they deserve all the kudos you can give them. with luck and some more work, for every three poems they write, 1 will be decent, out of every ten, one will be really good and out of 20 1 will be exceptional. i class myself as still being in the 1st stage but making headway RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - rowens - 04-05-2013 Leanne, can you introduce me to Juniper Russo, Kathleen Rooney, and Hannah Gamble? Think they'd let me into any of their smarty-pants parties? That's a double entendre, and I commented on the fact that it is. Don't things like that get educated women hot? RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Crepuscule - 04-06-2013 Brilliant list. A potential addition would be "writing poetry without having the foggiest idea what poetry is". When reading some of the poems people put up for critique I often wonder if they've ever actually read any poetry: whether they've actually experienced good poetry and and whether they know what makes it good. Then I feel guilty and ashamed... RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Leanne - 04-06-2013 (04-06-2013, 12:19 AM)Crepuscule Wrote: Brilliant list. It's a mystery for sure. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - rowens - 04-06-2013 I'm still looking to avoid the worst mistakes I might make trying to get in close with Hannah Gamble. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Leanne - 04-06-2013 (04-05-2013, 11:42 PM)rowens Wrote: Leanne, can you introduce me to Juniper Russo, Kathleen Rooney, and Hannah Gamble? Think they'd let me into any of their smarty-pants parties? That's a double entendre, and I commented on the fact that it is. Don't things like that get educated women hot?I suspect they'd have more respect if you introduced yourself in verse. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - JBird - 04-07-2013 Dark and clear, Changing, The world is orange-- I pray for the rabbits In the meadow. Nearly peed the pants after reading that one lol RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - Leanne - 04-07-2013 It actually sounds like an Easter poem to me... as long as the rabbits are Terry's Chocolate Orange... RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - rayheinrich - 04-09-2013 "Pray not for the rabbits in the meadow; Hope instead, that the rabbits pray for you." - Elmer Fudd Kennedy "Consider the rabbits of the meadow, how they multiply; they dress not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these." - Wabbit 6:28-29 "Dark and clear, Changing, The world is orange-- I pray for the rabbits In the meadow." Explication: The orange world is one experiencing global cooling caused by an excess of dust in the atmosphere that was injected there by either an asteroid impact, a volcanic eruption, or an atomic explosion. The lower atmosphere, in these events, clears fairly quickly; what stays up is the dust in the upper atmosphere which blocks the sun's radiation. So we have: Dark, clear, changing, orange, and the rabbits (being up shit creek) are INDEED in need of prayers. This excerpt is NOT meaningless or incoherent; the fault here lies with the curse of all knowledgeable writers: stupid fucking readers. Ray P.S. The irony that both the 'death sky' and carrots share the same colour is almost too much to bear. P.P.S. And yes, discussing its resonance with Easter requires a thread all its own. P.P.P.S. Challenge: Write a poem that includes all five. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - ellajam - 12-17-2013 I don't know why whilst is always singled out. RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - bena - 12-19-2013 P.P.P.S. Challenge: Write a poem that includes all five. Challenge accepted! Your love is memories of a whale's hips singing praises beyond your lips whilst (nod to ella) all the begets us is naught. I've lost you in a dying sea whilst I wondered in desert fought. I shall die now, for there are signs there is nothing left but sands of time. PS I think I have written a wonderful poem! Does that mean I've made it to 6? I even included a couple of clichés....just to brighten it up! |