Poetry blogs everywhere, not one about poetry. I read poetry blogs whenever I can, but can't find any that talk about poetry. Just schedules, meetings, announcements, stuff, general stuff. Not much different than the poems I read.
WELL TOM, that's the way people are. Most people are concerned with their immediate world, since they have to be concerned with their immediate world.
If you don't have something to say, don't put it in a poem.
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Oh-Oh....I am guilty, guilty, guilty...and I've thought about that a number of times....but I write so few poems and I live so many days that somehow the days become much easier to reproduce during the little time allowed for writing things....it's a heck of a lot easier to rag on some politician in the time allotted than it is to write a poem.
Damn it, anyhow.
Oh, lo,
Don't worry about it, (if you happen to come back here.) There is a tremendous price in life even to write one poem. Let me give you an example. Most people I know, if you suggest that one day out of the week they not eat anything at all--nothing--they will say it is not possible, they will get sick or weak or something. Sacrifice anything for one poem? Most people, most poets won't.
And, lo, I am guilty of this too.
Perhaps folks are afraid they will be forgotten--or ignored--if they don't put something in their blogs almost every day. Still, the assumption that near-strangers will be interested in the un-poeticized minutiae of your daily life, simply because they are occasionally interested in your verse, is a puzzling one. I'll go anywhere on the Web to read a good poem, even to have the chance of reading a good poem; it's just too bad that to avail myself of that opportunity I have to read about your* cats, your medications, your wardrobe, and your cold cereal. In prose.
*"Your" is purely generic, of course: reference to no specific, identifiable "you" is meant to be discernible by anyone but me.
rhe,
I think we mostly agree. I link to some poems from the blog, but I should post some poems like you, but I am working on a new form, and want to keep it private for awhile. Thanks for dropping by. No arguments around here, there is n't enough time.
Every so often I browse the blogsphere to find good poetry or writing on poetry and am disappointed by how many poets' blogs are just glorified diaries. My own blog isn't just poetry, but it all fits into a theme and is hopefully a well rounded whole. Maybe I'm just too private a person to add in the personal diary entries, but I would guess people aren't really interested....
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