I suck...and other things...

[NobodyNothing]

She's very vague, sometimes that one. But I love her because she is freaking brilliant and always right. I don't really know much about writing operas...I have preformed in one but it was in Italian and I didn't really know what I was singing. I can't really comment much on the poem itself, but I wanted you to know that everyone goes through the repeating cycle of wondering if you should revise, if the revision will be better...wondering about rhythm, structure, meaning. I have been writing since I was 8 and I'm 46 now, that's a long time--I have been published, and yet I never can tell if what I've written is wonderful or shit. That's why I post here to get objective views from fresh eyes.

As to the opera, I think it is interwoven and wonderfully complex. Yes, some of the words might be changed to improve flow, but I'm not educated enough on operas to tell you what to change. Perhaps someone who is an expert will follow with better advice, I just wanted to tell you to hang in there. It doesn't suck...you should change the title.

bena/mel.

Hi. I just write what I want to write, what I like to write. I have no pretensions as to quality or any such thing like that. I like all sorts of poetry, so many different styles. I appreciate such variety here.

When it comes to my own particular style, I like dramatic poetry, poetry that's kind of soliloquy-based (love the Shakespearean soliloquy). I love mythology, and like inhabiting myths and mythic figures, attempting to personify them in a contemporary way, with a modern sensibility. I love that.

That part of the poem I wrote I was playing with the myth of the return of Christ, attempting to inhabit that mythic figure. Things like that excite me. I just like what I like. That's all.

I don't know...

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