I write the type of poetry I write because that's how the words come out. The words, for that short time, own me..and I just allow them to. I allow that special part of me to take control and they come out however they come. Sometimes in prose..sometimes in rhyme, sometimes in free verse.

always ~
duDette (kari)
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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)

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

Because this is the only way I know how to write.

"It's not premarital sex. If you don't plan on getting married"
From a guy who love his single status.

“Am I a nice guy trying to be mean or a mean guy trying to be nice?”
Why don't you figure it out

So what moves you to write your style of poetry? I write for the sheer passion and the love of the words. How they roll like rivers and crash like tides or pierce the mind, the subconscience and yes even the conscience. I write because people from all walks of life inspire me so it is a fusion of their inspiration combined with my own expereinces. For me it is just the sheer the love of the words and the precise placement of those words in a pattern to create a rhythmatic effect for the tongue to speak and the ears to hear.

Why I write?

I write for the sheer delight
as the words are heard
resounding in the ear
or just for fun as they roll off
the tongue
to form a beat
that is unique
but the meter aka
the feet
doesn't conform
to any style
therefore when I perform
it live
it buzzes like a
beehive
but what's inside
is not always sweet
because I come from
the streets
the gutter
my writing is my bread
and butter
therefore I write
like no other
and have spent years
shaping this craft
that may make you laugh
or cause a bloodbath
but in the end my friends
for me and my poetry
it is about the love of words
whether they are written or heard
that gives me sheer delight
That Is Why I Write

Rico
Gaven Gabrelle/ Julian Alexander
May 11. 2003- June 3, 2003


Raw, gutsy, and in-your-face. are words that have been used. To me they describe exactly what Rico is all about.
Don't ever change………comments from Songbird in the poem “ Walking Through Hell”


Rico-style

Unmatched - unsurpassed......Rhon831 from the poem My Fruit

Why do I write the type of poems that I write?

This has a simple answer. My poems, don't have a particular style. I have never written two poems on similar topics. My poems are disoriented gatherings of words, that might even not make much sense to others. This is true, some of my poems are interpreted wrongly by others (well not *wrongly*, but differently)
Apparently, poems bring different meanings, different perspectives for every each person that reads them...

|| Some write for themselves,some write for fun,
some write for others, some write to learn,
I do not write because I only can,
I write so it makes me hu-man ||

I write the way I do because I am searching for the collective of words, that I put forth, that I can confindently sit back and read them aloud to myself and feel that I have finally written something truly complete or fulfilling. I also write to allow others to see how I feel about certain things around me, or things that have happened to me or in the past.

I write because, without writing, anything anyone could ever say would vanish instantly, or become so distorted through the memories of others that it no longer becomes what was the speaker wanted to portray.

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HAVE A NICE DAY!

-Aeras

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Why do I write…

Well, I too, am a liar. I just seem to write…

All my works on QL, except one or two pieces, have been fictional. It doesn’t seem to have any importance to me at all. If I see something at the mall or street, and it alarms my muses, I write. (Doesn’t pertain to me necessarily but it lures me in.) If one of my friends is feeling sad, I turn myself into a depressed 16-year-old, lock myself in my room and write. (Acting like I am them – the friend.) When writing, I always look at the pessimistic side. I, believe, it brings out the best in me. I believe it was Apokry who commented on my first poem, “Outside of my Inside” and said, you seem to be a “optimist trapped in a pessimists body.” Tehehehe.

I try to take that route sometimes.

Nowadays though, as some might have seen, I am trying new things. I don’t think someone can bring the best out of themselves, if they don’t try something new. Correct? So, I have been going on that direction. Not on what I’ll write about, but on how I’ll write it. I can write about anything really, the farther it’s away from me, the better it will come out.

... Now, either that’s a good sign – that I can write about things I have no idea about or I am running away from something.

Either or, I write to make people think, make them confused, make their conscience come out, make them angry, make them sad, make them happy or just make them feel really uneasy. If I have done any of the aforementioned then I have done my job as a writer… Non?



I want to know why Kari writes. Out of all the people I know, I think I have a really good sense on why, but Kari, if you would be so kind... why do you write?

¤Deep in the valley, carved on the rock, three little words, Forget Me Not.¤

I don't usually rhyme because it's too hard. It's really tough to find just the right word to express everything you want: from its definition to its connotation, to its length, the the way it looks, and the way it sounds when you sound it out. To have finally accomplished that, and then have to re-write the whole damn thing because the meter is off or it doesn't rhyme, is just too much freaking work. I have a thesis to write.

As for my "style," I'd say I'm driven by only one purpose, and that is to turn each word against every other, so they'll cancel out. The English language has 600,000 words, and they're all useless. Poetry's purpose, in my view, is to get past the words and back into experience. So a lot of what I write makes no sense from a semantic perspective, but so what.

-Toad.

i dont think of myself as a particularly good poet but many of the people who have read my work (although none has been posted on QL yet) have told me they love it. I started off as a lyricist for some friends in a band, so my songs eventually evolved into my poetry. so i write my style because i had an idea for a song that i couldnt come up with a chorus to, so it morphed into a poem