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A Poets Life

A poets life      Is full of strife       He pens his words        In perfect rhyme       So he can be heard      Through endless time       Never for self       Always for more       Enchanting readers      A poets core       Pictures of love      Cries of joy      Tantalizing words      The poets ploy         Down through the ages       Far too few       Have captured our souls       Alas Alas Anew

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Poet Destroyer A

Date: 10/15/2013 10:25:00 PM

love this verse from you... pin points my way...LINDA

Richard Ferry
Date: 10/15/2013 10:51:00 PM

Thanks Linda

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/13/2013 12:34:00 AM

I don't mind when people post five poems, that is not so bad. But it is very rude and inconsiderate to be making other poets' poetry scroll off the board before others have a chance to know that they wrote something today.. They used to have a list called Poems- new by poet.. I always used to visit that one because it only showed ONE poem per poet each day. But if you go click on it, you will see it's now "under construction" and has been that way for a long time now. DANG.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/13/2013 12:31:00 AM

Richard in answer to your question, I think just looking at all the poetry sites such as Soup answers your question. Even the most personal of poetry is posted here. Obviously most people want to share nearly everything they write! I know Soup says we can write as much as we want, but if you ever follow the blogs, you will find out that most members of soup hate it when people post more than five poems a day .There are some people doing like 20 at one time. those are the ones I am complaining of

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/11/2013 9:03:00 AM

richard, I hope you will read my message to you on that last one of mine that you saw. Even here in this poem you have written, I can say that you and I agree. The poet writes, as you so eloquently said "so he can be heard" and if nobody is reading your words, I think it takes something away from the satisfaction you derive from writing in the first place. That's why we are all here, Richard. We want people to read us. otherwise, we would all stay in our rooms and write and never show the world!

Richard Ferry
Date: 10/12/2013 10:24:00 PM

Hi Andrea Read your message..You do know , many of our greatest love sonnets were written for love ones, not public view. Also . Diaries that have survived were written for personnel reasons .Not public consumption...My point is ....Does one write for personnel satisfaction and a release or just to entertain others? Talk again Rick