I've decided I'm going to become a poet!

[RevolutionaryActs]

How does one go about that? :shrug: ...... :+

[wtmusic]

1. OK, give it up

Let's see what you got...

[RevolutionaryActs]

4. You mean a poem? lol Kay......

I posted this one in the Writers forum....


Brave Coward


Anger, angst.
Depression, depredation.
Grim, gloom.

Wanting change, fear has its hold.
Wishing for faith, there is no solace in the truth.
Cries in the dark, for no one to hear.

Brave coward, everyone’s friend.

Saying yes when I should say no.
Saying no when I should say yes.
Never understanding.
Why I do what I do.

Home has changed.
Isolation is what I feel.
Joy has left for now.
Keep it close.

What comes is yet to see.
What goes is never to return.
I see what I want.
It’s not what I get.

Lost in my mind.
Not my own pain.
Quit now.
Resting in shame.
Saving my heart for no one.

The time has come.
Under the sun.
Villain of my head.
Where did I come from, where do I go?

No more of this.
No more of me.
No more of you.

I stow away, waiting for it to change.
Hoping my fear has gone.

I look, I see, I feel.
Strength is with me now.
I wait for the dawning of tomorrow.
For that is a new day.

[wtmusic]

7. very powerful

I thought I was going to have to slash my wrists until I got to the last stanza

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. Well I'm glad you didin't......

I really don't want to cause anyones death! Yikes... :crazy:

[angstlessk]

25. That title 'Brave Coward' is perfect. Fear, angst and hope, that is all

we are left with now left with now. Fear for what MAY come, angst for WHAT EXISTS NOW, and hope it will all get better. Wonderful poem!

[RevolutionaryActs]

37. Thank you very much!

You're good for my ego. :7

[LisaM]

2. Well, you may wish to write a poem

then you will be a poet.

Do you mean a professional poet?

[Longgrain]

3. Luck and hard work...

Most "profesional" poets, like artists, do other things on the side...like teach or do research, which is where the real money is.

If you want to be a poet...you already are.:)

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. Bah....

You mean some richy rich person won't come and buy up all of my poems?! How rude! I don't want to be a poet anymore! :crazy:



Also... can you explain to me why I'm such a freak??!!!!! :shrug:

[Longgrain]

27. You're not a freak...here you go Rev

This is for you...this a modified version of a poem i wrote when i was fourteen...I hope you get a chance to see this...

I gazed into the valley low
and wondered how it feels to go
where birds sing gaily in the trees,
the feeling I will never know.

Oh how I long to feel the ease
of the cool but gentle breeze,
instead I try to ponder out
the answer to these mysteries.

I often feel the need to shout
because I have to live without
what other people have; but doubt,
I will ever cease to pout.




:)

[RevolutionaryActs]

32. Oh I like that very much!

:D

[Longgrain]

41. Thanks Rev glad you enjoyed

If you want to be a poet...do it because you love it. Not because you have to. :hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

43. I like writing, tis fun!

:7

[Bok_Tukalo]

28. "can you explain to me why I'm such a freak?"

I'm not sure but I think it has something to do with your feet.

[RevolutionaryActs]

34. Whoa man.... you're, like, blowing my mind...

:silly:

[Bok_Tukalo]

23. Sort of like being an artist

<<If you want to be a poet...you already are.:)>>

[Bronco69]

5. Isn't John Asscroft trying to become the "Poet Laureate"?

If he can do it, anyone can. Maybe you can finally finish that "There once was a man from Nantucket" limerick I've been hearing about for years. :-)

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! Are you serious? He is?!

:wtf:

[mcscajun]

21. The Limerick. New York: Brandywine Press, 1970. G. Legman

"The big red book" as some of us call it, has the man from Nantucket, and about 1700 other marvelous examples of the bawdy verse form.

It's been out of print for quite some time, but there are many copies floating around on Amazon.com and other online booksellers.

:)

The limerick is furtive and mean;
You must keep her in close quarantine,
Or she sneaks to the slums
And promptly becomes
Disorderly, drunk and obscene.
—Morris Bishop

[bigwillq]

6. COOL! I want to read some of your stuff

I'll post some of my work but I have to get them from home. I'll bring them into work one day!:bounce:

[RevolutionaryActs]

11. I posted a poem above if you're really curious.

:)

[bigwillq]

14. I saw that one the other night

Interesting poem. Keep on writing!:)

[RevolutionaryActs]

16. Cool stuff

:7

Now.... I want to see YOUR stuff.... ;)

[bigwillq]

17. I have all my writing at home

I will bring some in and post them!:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

18. Yay! I'm so eggcited now!

:bounce:

[bigwillq]

22. I wrote alot of the poems way back in my college days

I was really drugged out at that point so alot are about drugs but I wrote a cool one from the prospective of a can/bottle redemption machine. I thought it was cool.

[RevolutionaryActs]

24. Sounds cool!

Should I get stoned before reading it though? :silly:


Here's another poem I wrote, since I'm the sharing mood today. :shrug:


Moors


Life flies through the door
Time stops on the moors
To stay a while
We all go ‘round on a turnstile
All we do is run
And have no fun
All we want is to stay
Until he end of day
Bu we have to go
For this is just a show
You say time flies
I say time dies
By the deadly glove
That kills all the hope and love
Life flies out the doors
And time sits idly on the moors

[bigwillq]

29. Another good one!

Great job!

No, you don't have to be stoned to enjoy my poems. A lot of my stuff is also about sex, past relationships, guys who were assholes, anger poems!

I think one line had to do with cutting off a guy's dick!}(

[RevolutionaryActs]

38. ROFLMAO!!

I'm glad I'm not a guy! ;)

[bigwillq]

44. I don't let anyone do me wrong!

If they do, I bring out my knife!:evilgrin:

[RevolutionaryActs]

45. HAHAHAHA!

I'm glad you gave up on Veronica... I really wouldn't want to fight you for her. You sound badass! :scared:

;)

[angstlessk]

30. Irony of ironies, you HAVE angst, but your pic is so angstless

the 50's poster of the perfect woman. I love it, and yet you seem to be the abject opposite of that poster. Makes me chuckle. :hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

36. heheheheheheh

I love my poster... I love it! It's the truth too! Well behaved women rarely do make history. :7

[angstlessk]

10. First of all you MUST have angst...lots and lots of ANGST...see what

happens if you do not:

The Angstless Poet

Woe is me, how could this happen?
a poetess sans tragedienne.
The pain of youth long since past
leaving not a twinge of angst.
What can I offer - a world in pain-
a simple lilting rhyme refrain?

The poor, perhaps, I can uplift
Rhyme wrapped as a gift.
Denounce the power of suppression
expose taxation as regression.
No, angst is their daily bread
Nevermind the aforesaid.

A woman, perchance, needs my rhyme
To disclose the paradigm.
Rebuke the blame and condemnation-
-her burden for mankind’s damnation.
Oh! But of course to man she’s wed
Nevermind the aforesaid.

Ah! Lovers in the throws of passion
would save a rhyme from the ash can.
Extol the pleasure of new found love
If only I had memories of.
Oh! Well, they spend their time abed
Nevermind the aforesaid.

A captive audience is what I need
whose egress I must impede.
Suppose prisoners on a rhyme diet
would shortly riot?
Death row inmates wishing they were dead!
Nevermind the aforesaid.

Woe is me, how could this be?
A poetess sans tragedy
Why not youth extend its reach?
Why must wisdom always teach?
Leaving but a shell of pain
And a lilting rhyme refrain?

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. I have angst! Read my poem up there

:P

[angstlessk]

19. I posted this before I read yours, and found angst to be the second word

in your poem, I thought that was very symbiotic...and it was very moving. I thought you were joking, I did not know you were a poet.

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. I am a poet.... but I was just being silly

I'm in a silly mood today. :shrug:

:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

15. D'oh forgot to say, I really like that poem, it's great!

:7

[Radical Activist]

26. Wearing black and sulking in coffee shops

also helps.

[DS1]

31. Looks like you're waiting until tomorrow to start

:P

[RevolutionaryActs]

39. :blows giant raspberry at DS1:

:P

[DS1]

46. You'd better think of something better than 'giant'.

Poet. :D

[RevolutionaryActs]

47. HAHAHAHA!

OK....


:blows mammoth raspberry at DS1:

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[RevolutionaryActs]

35. Grovelbot! I'm a penniless poet, leave me be!

:P

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. The Grovelbot was just giving advice...

Maybe he has a point!

[RevolutionaryActs]

42. If I had a job I would in a second... but I don't and I don't know when

I'll get one either. :(


Someday Grovelbot.. someday!