07-17-2012, 11:45 AM
I fell in love and thought writing her poetry would be the cool thing to do, needless to say it was utter drivel...but she loved it because i'd took the time and effort to write it. back in the day i thought i was a poet genius. now after 10 years i wear glasses and see reality a bit clearer. i wrote more back in the day (started writing ten year ago) and only on line. it gave me something to do and i grew extremely fond of reading other peoples work. i've always loved words so i guess it's why i enjoy it so much. me and my partner have been together for 10 year and we met online 
so i've seen 1st hand the good parts you can take from it. i've never really submitted anything online though a group i was in when i first started out placed one of my poems in an ezine 
. the guy who ran it with his wire was a professor who taught english and poetry in particular, i thought and still do; that he was a very good teacher and poet. he mingled with the likes of ron silliman who i thought of as a prattishly good poet . i stopped writing poetry for a few years (well, i'd got the girl so why continue 
) and then began missing it. i joined a few poetry groups but never found one like MOAPG (mother of all poetry groups) so i only did a few pieces. mostly trash by any standard. i eventually joined a non poetry forum and after some discourse with a mod there, (he told me i had no idea how to be a mod or run a site...it was VF actually ) i decided to start my own poetry site and make it easy for non poets as well. or should i say non writers. (something which no longer belongs to me because you bastards took it over and made it your own.)what i did find out pretty quickly was through the journey of getting here; is that most poetry site are either up your arse with praise or beating it to death with a big spiky stick. I hated both and so i passed from forum to forum eventually i'm here and people are good and kind and most of all honest. not just honest but honest in that non-spiteful way that destroys peoples aspirations. I kind of think i've arrived at where i need to be, all i have to do now is try and write more poetry and make it better.
so i've seen 1st hand the good parts you can take from it. i've never really submitted anything online though a group i was in when i first started out placed one of my poems in an ezine . the guy who ran it with his wire was a professor who taught english and poetry in particular, i thought and still do; that he was a very good teacher and poet. he mingled with the likes of ron silliman who i thought of as a prattishly good poet . i stopped writing poetry for a few years (well, i'd got the girl so why continue ) and then began missing it. i joined a few poetry groups but never found one like MOAPG (mother of all poetry groups) so i only did a few pieces. mostly trash by any standard. i eventually joined a non poetry forum and after some discourse with a mod there, (he told me i had no idea how to be a mod or run a site...it was VF actually ) i decided to start my own poetry site and make it easy for non poets as well. or should i say non writers. (something which no longer belongs to me because you bastards took it over and made it your own.)what i did find out pretty quickly was through the journey of getting here; is that most poetry site are either up your arse with praise or beating it to death with a big spiky stick. I hated both and so i passed from forum to forum eventually i'm here and people are good and kind and most of all honest. not just honest but honest in that non-spiteful way that destroys peoples aspirations. I kind of think i've arrived at where i need to be, all i have to do now is try and write more poetry and make it better.