The Heart of the Matter



No passion, no struggle is allowed!
New poets, to make it here, please this crowd!
Write about pets, rainbows, flowers and the moon.
Step outside that zone, ignored you will be, soon!

As a writer , if you be, a royal choice is yours.
Do not think, any words a poem makes, so choose!
To please this mixed band?
Or let golden words slip from your hands.

Thus, will pass on what I learned here.
Your poem is your strongest gear!
Comments do not a good poem make.
Write of your truth, your views, for poetry’s sake!


                            9/26/2021

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Date: 9/26/2021 8:38:00 PM
Helloo Panagiota, The more I come to see you speak your mind, just goes to show how far a true heart can go. ~~ Yeah, others might be a little put out to know..,yours is gonna be just fine. -Richard
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 9/27/2021 4:30:00 AM
Hey Richard, Am sure many would like me to hush up! I cannot not be me. All differ here. Who does not like truth I suggest ..,never read me Therer is a grand variety of poets here and styles, agree? Panagiota I have no corner on the truth. Simply my experience Pangie with hugs);
Date: 9/26/2021 4:50:00 PM
Its a crazy world to let the words flow!
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 9/27/2021 4:20:00 AM
Love your comment, it is both philosophical and fin! Panagiota PS. Thank you for reading me .
Date: 9/26/2021 11:05:00 AM
HelloPanagiota, new poets and poetess there are many ideas to write about. Take a look around you and you will see things to write about.New poets and poetess ther is good advice here. Hugs
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 9/27/2021 4:17:00 AM
So true Darlene! Panagiota
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 9/26/2021 3:22:00 PM
Hello Panagiota, thank you for letting me know. I will just be myself for that is the only person i can be. Hugs.
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 9/26/2021 12:42:00 PM
I dont advise new poets except to write. That’s a discipline and a passion and a personal choice... Use classical forms, new people. It’s tepting to use none. Advice here ranges from sublime to ridiculous. The better you get, don’t expect to be liked. Darlene..kids write poetry in elementary school. Eddie writes better transom here. Heis not allowed to post perhisMom due ti the seedy Poetry here, Wish you health and total freedom Pangie
Date: 9/26/2021 9:15:00 AM
I think you are doing exactly what poets should do: speak the truth of one's heart -- whatever, and wherever the impulse. Some may agree...some may not.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 9/26/2021 11:55:00 AM
The Truth of The Heart, beyond the shell...really piercing the dimension of yoke -- reaching, such center, requires a lot of dedication, and hard-work...and then, faithful intuition. Evolving often into prophesy. The heart, in its fullest expression, not simply an organ, nor a place where feelings and emotions are stored for regurgitation -- it is the human gateway to Divine Essence.
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 9/26/2021 9:32:00 AM
See my comment to Anthony, I mentioned you!)) Poetry is an art form. It’s not words on paper. Any goober can write from their heart. Excellent poetry is more demanding. I am not even near where I want to go. Agreement not needed on excellence. Take opera...or opera singers. You know the great ones. Not all poetry is great..Not mine, and this is a poem tightly crafted with hard edges.I like it. Most won’t. And that’s OK, dear Joe, love, Pangie Love having all male responders, thinkers, you all are. Bless you,
Date: 9/26/2021 7:11:00 AM
Hi Pangie, I hope evrything is going well for you i enjoy your poems as they are always filled with passion and a zest for life. poets should write about the not so nice subjects but there is also room for lighter topics.. its all part of the human journey.. Best Wishes, Anthony
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 9/26/2021 9:21:00 AM
Dear Anthony, Most would burn us both at the stake, happily. This site should be called...Pretty Soup...and no reality allowed. Reality can be beautiful in teaching us it’s ugliness. I cannot take joking about these scheisse times we live in. I do believe what Patrick Henry said, GIVE ME LIBERTTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. SUCH An ADMIRABLE COMMENT. I loathe dead fish comments. One word comments..send to others not me. One can look online for more words, but no, they will not.I was glad to be here for the time O was, Au Revoir, my friend,Love, Pangie. PS Joe De Mino tel,s it like it is as you have..
Date: 9/26/2021 7:11:00 AM
"Comments do not a good poem make" Nor do they make it a bad poem. Pangie, stop banging the drum and start blowing the trumpet.....writers write....readers read.....and .....
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 9/26/2021 9:07:00 AM
My love, my Lawless. Perhaos you might check how many poems I have written in less than three years, I agree with you. ML Kiser was the one who inspired me to write and knock of being a comment Hunter, I won’t be banging my drum much longer here, so take the plugs out of your ears. Hugs, Panagiota. Au Revoir, hope your ears are not sore))
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