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Poets Are Us

"Poets are Us" The blood dripped off each piranha's sharpened fang acquiescing compliant with tragic complacency keep it neat and clean within the margins no detours stick like Teflon to the poetic rules virtuous and unsoiled aa bb cc dd pristine are us sanctimonious sugared pus we live for accolades are us Dorothy reads Poets are us. Smiles wryly, laughs (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) "Happiness"/ Goldfrapp https://youtu.be/mnHlGONToIc "The downward slippery slope...." (Anonymous) "Un Coeur Simple", Gustave Flaubert, 1877 https://interlinearbooks.com/blog/our-sixth-interlinear-translation-un-coeur-simple-by-gustave-flaubert/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/simple-heart-un-coeur-simple-gustave-flaubert-1877 e-book https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1253/1253-h/1253-h.htm "Flaubert's Parrot", Julian Barnes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaubert%27s_Parrot https://www.supersummary.com/flauberts-parrot/summary e-book https://pdf.allbookshub.com/general/flaubert-parrot.pdf

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Frederic Parker

Date: 5/27/2022 10:48:00 AM

I believe most on this site believe themselves master writers, though there are a few really outstanding writers of which I find you to be one, funny how the really good poets don't believe they are good, and the really bad poets believe themselves to be superior writers, such is the human mind, as, for the bullying, I pay no mind to barking dogs no matter which neighborhood I'm in...let them bark...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/27/2022 12:02:00 PM

Sage advice re the bullying. I never set out to write poems, but short stories, now my writing addiction seems to be fixed on poetry - as it is another language entirely. Conceits and metaphors. I believe writing and creativity through art and music, is a lifeline for many, for some a complete religious experience to self and interpreting life.

Frederic Parker

Date: 5/26/2022 11:45:00 AM

all of this is beyond my simple mind, I write for many reasons none I really understand, I suppose it is a habit like tapping a finger on a table, a nervous tick, then again just something to be amused about, could be I just play at poetic verse aligning it with others who write just to see how well I could write if I really wanted to be serious about it, who knows, my insanity only goes so far

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/26/2022 8:56:00 PM

You are an outstanding writer Parker. I write some absolute crap sometimes. I just write, it would seem constantly (like the Red Shoes story, I cannot seem to stop writing). It is my worst addiction. It's gone well past a falling grace malaise now, like one needs drugs or alchohol, I have a need and want to write. Every poem is the last, I swear, but I have to write another...and god knows what is going on in my mind when I deliver words to page. It will more than likely be my undoing.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/26/2022 8:56:00 PM

I was inspired to write this poem, due to the inordinate amount of cat-fighting that occurs regularly in this joint.I joined to be with other writers who are inspirational and motivational.It's all well and good to share thoughts and feelings but when it denigrates to the bullying of others, it has to stop. That is not what this site should be about. I'm no saint, but I cannot abide the bullying, name-calling, moral high ground others seem to think they can take with others, religious, politically or morally. I usually block - 3 strikes and you're out - if I'm bullied, or something petulant without any form of fact to validate (i.e. not knowing a person and their background) is proferred as a means of tearing any self-worth of a writer to shreds. Positive input is what is required, and motivation/inspiration. If you can't abide a writer move onto the next. Just my thoughts on the negatives that continually pepper spray their vitriol in others comment boxes. Not addressed to you Parker.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 5/3/2022 7:58:00 PM

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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/3/2022 8:01:00 PM

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Robert Lindley

Date: 5/1/2022 2:55:00 AM

Poetry to a true poet is about giving. Talented writers can compose verse without the purpose of giving unto others but instead to feed what they themselves need--be it attention or some other emotional drug. The world now attempts to change the morality/essence of poetry, imho. And does so by weakening the recognized level of what is and was once termed to be high level poetry. Pandering to bring in ever greater the masses..

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/1/2022 5:13:00 AM

Emily Dickinson has a firm grasp on truth. Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise; As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/1/2022 5:10:00 AM

To your opening sentence. True, in a sense. For all intent and purpose, one may commence the write with the idea of giving to others. However, on completion, you (the writer, the poet) will find that the end result is something in yourself you have been looking to 'unlock', find the answer to, secure an understanding of, receive love that is lacking, peace that is wanting, closure that is calling, a beginning that is opening, for eg.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/1/2022 5:10:00 AM

The writer/poet can be viewed as altruistic in the 'giving' of self through thoughts put into words, the virtues and the darkest warts and all efficacy, for the reader to take away some meaning, empathetic likeness, or lesson – be ‘provoked’ into thinking and questioning the ‘true’ intent behind the poem, essay. However, in the end the writer/poet writes for 'self'. That is the basic truth. Riddle me this then, is that ‘basic’ truth, poetic truth or scientific truth? Poetry is about feeling, no? And Science is about facts? I read an interesting article some time back about how the two relate. You may or may not agree with this, but an interesting take on it all.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/1/2022 5:10:00 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/09/ruth-padel-science-poetry

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/1/2022 5:10:00 AM

https://www.philosophytalk.org/blog/poetry-philosophy-truth

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/1/2022 3:14:00 AM

Your poem, stirred this writing splurge from me and did so with my having no desire to write today.. Now that is poetry.. When it inspires/activates others. God bless..

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/1/2022 3:11:00 AM

Now my dear friend, to the fine creative poem you just gifted us, bravo. Nothing stirs the heart like truth, even when it hits hard. Poetry should be about truth--as what good is poetry if it is about lies, clever deceptions, shallow meanderings, etc? The old questions, does a poet express heart's truth comes to mind. Does the poet expose the soul and do so as a gift unto others? One must remember such is no easy task as the natural reaction is not to --expose-- too much. Since the exposure is viewed to be a major weakness for others to exploit. Yet , truth is by presenting truth in ones poetry, regardless of how others may accept it or think less of the author is instead a great strength. The idea that truth is strength is paramount in poetry. As who wants to read lies, written just to impress others?

Robert Lindley
Date: 5/1/2022 3:01:00 AM

Can a fine writer --play at poetry-- to gift pleasing verse? Sure, but those deeper experienced in poetry can usually see the essence is not there, imho. There is much to be said about poetic heart. Or the expressing of real life in verse. The exposing of true self, true life experience and doing so with truth and the thought of giving to others--for the benefit of others... If this all seems to be too much of a romantic idea of poetry, then so be it. To this old poet Romanticism is the essence of poetry.... And truth/heart in the writing is the foundation.. God bless

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/30/2022 7:38:00 AM

https://thewalrus.ca/the-narcissism-of-contemporary-poetry/

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/30/2022 7:11:00 AM

https://www.burstsofbrilliance.com/blog/not-all-writers-are-narcissists/

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/30/2022 7:00:00 AM

https://www.healthyplace.com/personality-disorders/malignant-self-love/why-do-i-write-poetry-if-i-am-really-a-narcissist

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/30/2022 7:02:00 AM

...for the recidivists. ;)

John Lawless

Date: 4/30/2022 3:33:00 AM

"It is the nature of the poet to provoke, not to explain." me

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 5/3/2022 7:50:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/piranhas_1241395

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/30/2022 4:48:00 AM

That's a rather noble consensus by the majority John. I understand the art of provocation implicitly. On the whole, 'Poets' write for themselves first; others come after 'self'. Lovejoy-Burton

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/30/2022 4:48:00 AM

https://poetryschool.com/essays/writers-and-narcissism/

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/29/2022 4:35:00 AM

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history." Plato

Chris Conn
Date: 5/2/2022 6:45:00 PM

We write to depress, express and impress for a short poem titled success.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/29/2022 4:41:00 AM

"Literature is a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that, literature is many things, such as delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet."

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/29/2022 4:38:00 AM

"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly." Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes....Writer.