I have read poetry from many people on here and if this has already been discussed somewhere-please close it but I like to write Romantic/Passionate poetry and that is me-though I know I can write what I call other poetry. I read
Rhon831's and I think " Wow how could I write like her?" or Imbued, Shy Grl, Fair Gwen,Harv,TN, Rico and many others I go "Hmmm maybe I should just quietly leave here?"-LOL
So what moves you to write your style of poetry?
As sometimes I think I will try and write like that person and end up thinking " No Leo stick with what you like" Any Responses????????

I find free-verse harder to write, even if I have like a really deep idea or something, I have trouble putting it on paper and making it work. It always sounds too much like plain sentences to me..... I like rhymes and couplets, It's just my happy-go-lucky way of doing things I guess. I LOVE rhymes...... I'm like Fezzik in the Princess Bride (although I don't do it out loud) I've got an ABCB kind of thing happening in most of my stuff, plus rhyming just gives the writing more of a flow I think....

-A friend

My very existence has been graced by that of a single being. Nay, this is not God, though he doth resemble one both in power and general existence. I, Queenbo, speaketh of one person and one person only, yes, you have guessed... It is that of Skeg, may power be with you, Skeg.



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Rhyming is sometimes dificult for me, so i stick to free-verse most of the time. Before i came here,when i did write, i wrote the four line couplets, like cyber does, some times rhyming and sometimes not. I made it a habit(though bad) to write a poem in every physics class i had. now i think i have thirty or so in the back of my notebook...

usually, in physics, i write 'cyberlaol romance poems', and they are either romantic fantasies of mine, or ones that "disturb my youthfullness"

i don't always get to write them now, but i try to as often as possible. i find that i have to pay attention now, because now i realize the tests are getting harder. must bring up that "C".

ever since last april, i have written three little poems per day, usually 1 or 2 haikus and a four liner, or 2 four liners and a haiku. i have filled up three 60 page books with them (a page per day) and am starting rapidly on my fourth. i have a quartet i am working on, where the title of each book is a line from one of my favorite four line poems. i thought it was a good idea.

Now, since i have arrived, i adapted a totally new writing style. i don't know how i came up with it, but i like it. it adds a sort of personality to them, i think. i got a bit off topic up there (sorry!). the breaks in the lines make you read it a certain way, and with how i write (the words i use, and the themes), i think it makes everything fit together perfectly.

And so ends my story.....


~Much love~

¤Imbued¤Glory¤




øThe sun rises on the horizon, vanquishing all my troubles in the morn. I shan't want anymore to cry, for my tears will be dried and from their ashes I will be reborn.ø

~Me~

[This message was edited on 12-26-02 at 11:39 AM.]

i just write what i think. i usually think of a line or something for some weird reason, and then just keep writing. when i get stuck, i try to rhyme something in the next line. and yes, i know i haven't posted anything on here for over a year probably, but whatever. you can read it under my profile if you're curious.

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"We were born forever We are twinned in a fugitive mind Friends should stay together and Light the world with the fugitive kind" -Ricki Lee Jones, Satellites	"The things that we’re afraid of Are gonna show us what we’re made of In the end" Blessed Union of the Souls, Hey Leonardo
"Wake up kids, we've got the dreamers’ disease Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees So polite, you're busy still saying please Frenemies, who when you're down ain't your friend Every night , we smash their Mercedes Benz First we run , and then we laugh 'til we cry New Radicals, You Get What You Give	"God help you if you are an ugly girl Course too pretty is also your doom ‘Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred For the prettiest girl in the room God help you if you are the phoenix And you dare to rise up from the ash A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy While you are just flying past" Alana Davis, 32 Flavors

ok, so maybe you can't look up all the posts someone has made. i thought that you could? anyway, here's one cuz you won't be able to find them otherwise-they're around page 70/80....


http://forum.quoteland.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=207192712&m=1411969824

http://forum.quoteland.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=207192712&m=2471939134

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"We were born forever We are twinned in a fugitive mind Friends should stay together and Light the world with the fugitive kind" -Ricki Lee Jones, Satellites	"The things that we’re afraid of Are gonna show us what we’re made of In the end" Blessed Union of the Souls, Hey Leonardo
"Wake up kids, we've got the dreamers’ disease Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees So polite, you're busy still saying please Frenemies, who when you're down ain't your friend Every night , we smash their Mercedes Benz First we run , and then we laugh 'til we cry New Radicals, You Get What You Give	"God help you if you are an ugly girl Course too pretty is also your doom ‘Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred For the prettiest girl in the room God help you if you are the phoenix And you dare to rise up from the ash A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy While you are just flying past" Alana Davis, 32 Flavors

I find it impossible to write about things I know nothing about. So all of my writing is uhh...biographical. And I *love* rhyming...finding that perfect word to match that other perfect word. Show me free verse that nails a moment like this does:

Oh, say, can you see?
By the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed
In the twilights last gleaming.

Whose broard stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming.

Ahhh. Well...I guess that's all I have to say on the subject. Oh, as for forms, my usual is ABAB or AABBA. Not on purpose, but that's how it usually ends up.

belesprit

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No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will. Reuben Land, character in a book by Leif Enger.

Orange Paper

Here You Are

I tend to write free verse poetry each time I put pen to paper. Almsot everytime I do the poems are based around Dark Poetry. Not the ususal subject her at QL.

pinna

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Death is in the air strapped in the electric chair

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Well Leo, I write what I know or what I think I know . What I am feeling at a certain time and sometimes I simply just make up stuff. If I hear something that has an affect on me I try to write using that line in the poem. It's quite a challenge but it keeps me occupied and thinking.

~Mickey~

What I know about my poetry is that I can't write about things which I feel very strong about. If I'm in love, I won't be able to write about love.

Besides that, I can't rhyme for peanuts. So I almost always write in free verse.

I also drift about and end up writing about something completely different.
Poems which ask question- Those are the ones that I like writing best.

I'm not sure if I have a particular style, I would surely like to develop one though.

^*--$iren--*^

"You can't expect a flower garden,
If you can't handle the occasional weed!" - Fair_Gwenofair

Hmmm...

Most of my poems are purely fictitious. Especially ones about pain and sorrow - I've been blessed with so much happiness around me (touch wood) that there was this stage where absolutely EVERY poem I wrote was just reeking with happy thoughts.

After that though, I decided to do something different. I became more observant - now, sometimes, I write poems which I don't think the "old" me would have ever acknowledged as her own..

So to sum it up - imagination and variety (in poems) has always worked for me. And as for styles? Well, I don't have a particular one; I'm still trying to discover the right one for me. I guess it all depends on Lady Muse !


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Do what you think and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.-Richard Bach

Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. - Omar Khayyam -Peace-

I write what I have to write. I cannot just set a time and date to sit and write...I have to do it when the mood strikes and write about whatever comes out. I used to everything in rhyming...now, I've strayed a bit from that. well, a lot from that...I rarely rhyme anymore. However, it's interesting to try new styles.

-Hellsangel

I write what the voices in my head scream at me to write...oh wait that's not voices in my head, those are fragments of my soul, yeah that's it, fragments that run amuck and I just gather them up and throw them onto paper. Truthfully as a writer and I've been doing this for many years, I find that what I know brings the source of my writing it's power. The essence of each poem or story carries a tiny part of the writer and that is what brings light and life to mere words. I can't claim I write with any one style because I find that confines my imagination to a limited space, and I have a thing about that! Each line evolves a life of it's own and I, merely the instrument that is used to express it. To limit yourself to one thing is to not fully sample the world around you. "The box contains nothing, it is merely an exercise in space that has no relation to what you know."- LJL 2002 (Gem)




The ink is black
The page is white
Together we learn to read and write
The child is black
The child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight
The beautiful sight

If I sit down to write I can generally write something. If I get writer's block I hit the floor instantly and start feeling that I'll never write again, so it's probably best that that doesn't happen very often at all.

We're all self-concious of our work and know that a lot of the time we aren't sure how it will be accepted. We expect the worst. So I write and then revise, and revise, and revise, right up until I feel I've got a half-decent piece.

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'Keep up the __insert_suitable_adjective_here___ work!'

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I used to write real teen-angsty pieces...i have pages and pages and pages of those....i wrote those to try and sort out thoughts and feelings i was having etc.

Now i try and write about a wider variety of things...all still based on my life and my thoughts and feelings, but just different types of thoughts and feelings. Most of the time now my poems (and stories) are at least inspired by events or moments in my life....I think i write either to pass on a message to the reader, or to capture something from my life that i don't want to be lost.

As for my style, sometimes i write stories, sometimes random pages of prose, sometimes rhyming poems, sometimes free-verse....i go with what feels right for the subject, and what i feel like doing at the time.

Peace

"Te doy una cancion de madrugada, cuando mas quiero tu luz."
-Silvio Rodriguez

When I joined QL, I had in my mind that this would help me improve my writing and I'll inspire others (my username is what it is- letswriteandshare- mostly because of that).

My first few months in QL, I posted spontaneously written works- write in on QL, immediately post it, probably not even read it again!- and my ONLY aim would be to inspire! Sadly- that didn't work, people here and everywhere I think, judge more by the icing, not the cake.

Lately, I -sounding immodest or whatever- am improving as far as writing goes. BUT now my poems are ruder, more semi-autobiographical (not fully autobiographical), complaining, in some ways cruel,- though I still want to inspire, and after a set of poems on diferent themes in the past two months or so, I posted a poem "good" in many respects ["The Shroud (CAUTION: Reality hurts)"]- written with a meaning and a message and aimed to move and inspire everyone and a fine style; and I think in future I'll experiment with many themes and messages..let's see where the 'strangenesses' takes me.

Lets write and share


~"Some people are so opposed to murder they will kill anyone who commits it."~-Magazine advertisement (I quoted this line from Petrarch's reply to: Killing too slowly.........
~Death sentence can be a punishment-but it cannot be justice.~me, Letswriteandshare.

hmm, I wrote about this somewhere before:

I will only write when I feel I want to, my inspiration can came from anywhere at anytime. It is often possible for me to write something every other night because I do have quite a busy muse, however that for me is not as important as really wanting to write.

I love english, I love words, but as a matter of principle I don't ever want any work of my on Quoteland that is forced, that needs, instead of wants to be written and does not come from my own desire.

Other than following the simple want to write, my form of poetry may vary. However if I am conscious about presenting a lot of ideas, or I want to say a lot in my lines I tend to write in free verse because I find it harder to say exactly what I want and still produce a piece with a steady rhyming rhythm.

I usually write about people or emotions, which I generally find both easy to express and more powerful to write about than inanimate objects or forces, however recently I have experimented with personification.

I too find it hard to write about some things I feel very strongly about, I believe that there are a lot of words that do not need to be written down for them to be both apparent and still have incredible meaning. If I believe strongly enough in the words, that they do exist, I do not feel the need or the comfort of writing them down, because every part of me resounds with the feeling of them.

best wishes,
Hope {Grant}

I found your picture today
I swear I'll change my ways
I just called to say I want you to come back home
I just called to say, I love you come back home (Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock)

Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985 - March 27, 2003
RIP

I don't see myself as having a particular style of poetry. And I, like Hope and some of the others, can ONLY write when it "comes to me." I can't make myself write a poem a day or anything like that. That's probably why I don't write that often, but when something hits me, it fills my mind until I have to just let all the words fall out of my head onto the paper. I'd say...in my writing I like to compare things. For me, I'm ALWAYS relating things to my life and my situation. So basically I write when I need to get something out, when all my thoughts are getting a little too emotional.



Love,
Stargirl

I dunno how!

Why do I write the type of poetry I do? Because I have to. I write. A lot. Most of it isn't postable, either because it's too personal or because I don't want to or because it sucks. But I write the way I do, because it's how I think. I have a very hard time sitting down and writing essays and storys, because they preceed in a 'normal' manner, in which one thing leads to another. In my head, everything is connected, and I see that that comes out when I write. I do write short stories (usually one to three pages handwritten) because it's easy to put everything down and then tweak it out. I also find it very very hard to finish, and judge my own work- anything I do.

I like experimenting with words and form and flow, and although I don't rhyme very much, when I read some of my own poems- they do rhyme in a 'flowy' kinda way. You'd have to be in my head to understand it.

The reason I don't like rhyming as much as I like free verse is because when you rhyme then the next line (or the one after it) has already been written. I mean it HAS to rhyme (unless you use 'dirty rhymes'*) and there's only so many words that rhyme. I like internal rhymes very much, and I like reading other peoples rhyming poetry. But I like writing free verse because it feels more 'real'. I mean no one goes around rhyming all the time (pardon me Fezzik ). I do like rhyme in rap though, because you have flow and rhyme and rhythm.

Hope I made SOME kind of sense.

Oh yeah, I like free verse because you never know what the next line will be, and I can almost manipulate you into expecting something and deliver something else. Also I like to play with words, and timing and feel... with set meters you can't do it as well.

But it is good to use form as exercises to help your own writing. And to experiment, and not just say write one word a line. Although it's okay sometime, it's not good to stagnate... I'm always on the look out for new and different words. That's one of the reasons why you catch me cursing in only a few poems. It adds to the poem in that case, and it gets the point across without bothering anyone.

I tend to write about what I feel, and what I don't feel. It's just about the only way I CAN feel things, through words. Also, I write about what I DON'T feel... in that I can put myself in someone else's shoes and write from the perspective.

The one thing I really, really need- solitude, privacy, aloneness, 'me' time... what ever you want to call it. I have to be able to shut everyone else out. I tend to write a lot on the go as well, and if it comes and I miss it... unless it gets stuck then it isn't coming back.

Wow, this is long for me, lol, maybe I should stick it in the workshop and then post it under prose as an essay on why I write the way I do.



*As Gem explained it to me, a dirty rhyme is an 'almost rhyme'. For example, head and beds. Or something loke that.

Harv
So I lost my mind now I'm ready to find my way/Back home/Today/To stay/
The way you wished I would/And I swear/To stay/The way you wished I would
Train,I Wish You Would

Try this!

I have severe distance problems... with my vision. Some people I know say that I compensate for my 2-dimensional visual world with a multi-dimensional mental world. The result is... well, pure complication. It's hard for me to express complex ideas neatly, and so I use rhyme as a sort of limitation on the ideas. Sometimes, the idea breaks right through the boundries of rhyme... but I always try to find a way to make it patterned. Whether that means a lot of parallel structure in an essay, or a visually patterned poem... it's still patterned. I try to end poems with a more positive approach, or write poems in a light-hearted way, because my writing isn't an expression of feeling... it's a expression of mind to make me feel better. Occasionally that slips, too... but 98% of the time... I write stuff that I could re-read to cheer me up or get me thinking. *nods*

Harv- I think the actual literary term for that is "slant rhyme". But a dirty rhyme sounds more fun.

"Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." The Phantom Tollbooth

I have never really thought of myself as a good poet but usually what influences me to write poetry is the life and love of others. I have never experienced anything I write about. (Well sometimes)(Like my poem hopes). But usually its all about others. So thats where I get my ideas from so *~yeah*~