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Hi, thoughtful poetry and confronting art..... and mathematics, are my interest. Have been writing, poetrying and painting for about 20 years and mathematicing for about 25. Of course we all have thoughts about random stuff often enough, I like putting those random thoughts into verse making sense or putting them on canvas to be a provoker. I prefer all styles of poetry depending upon my mood.

By the way, unless i state that a poem actually occurred to me, then they are all made up, fiction, whimsical, not true events, they are not biographies and only touch on uncomfortable topics to make the reader question things. I believe poetry has the ability to make us question our own morals intimately, like how the bard made us question suicide in Romeo and Juliet.

p.s. the bard didn't do suicide.

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What I write in poetry does not necessarily reflect the opinions or morals of the NSW department of education...

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Blog Posted:1/3/2017 11:54:00 AM

More males are in top of active community, more males have entered bulk writes, yet top ten contest winners are all female???? Thoughts. More males like poetry written by female?

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Frederic
Parker

Date: 1/4/2017 9:35:00 PM

I can only speak for myself and agree with FJ..women in general do tend to write more poetically..as for the men there are quite a few on this site who are very poetic, but not as many as the women therefore they tend to win more..also there are some guys on this site that tend to dump 10 to 15 poems at once causing the active numbers to be inflated

Doug Vinson
Date: 1/6/2017 11:51:00 PM

Sad to think of all the great poetry lost to the world because women could not get published in many countries for hundreds of years. And even when they could, they might not be taken seriously, thus the temptation to write under a male pseudonym, as with "George Eliot" in Victorian England.

Doug Vinson
Date: 1/6/2017 12:27:00 PM

I wonder - can we generalize beyond PoetrySoup, for the populace as a whole? Is one sex more poetic than the other?

Jan Allison
Date: 1/5/2017 5:11:00 AM

The maximum number of poems soupers can 'dump' is ten a day - love your choice of words Frederic!!!!:-) hugs Jan xx

Doug
Vinson

Date: 1/3/2017 8:26:00 PM

Many of us men are out hunting giraffes.

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 1/3/2017 7:05:00 PM

Lewis, something really weird is going on. Is it just me? I cannot enter a contest or get to soupmail or inbox or outbox or member area. Please check if you can do that stuff and let me know, will you?

Doug Vinson
Date: 1/6/2017 1:01:00 PM

(Have to laugh - 2/3 of my 'Favorites' have to do with the seasons.) Since we're talking about you, Andrea, I have to mention your poem 'And Sweet Is Her Demise.' I was blown away the first time I read it, and it still always brings tears to my eyes. I literally get light-headed just thinking about it. Tears, but laughter and a big smile shooting up through the clouds. Poetry.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 1/4/2017 3:05:00 PM

you guys are too sweet. Jan, you amaze me by how far you have come. Just think of that first year we met,and now you are reading poems in front of audiences. Simply fantastic!!

Stephen Pennell
Date: 1/4/2017 10:33:00 AM

agreed jan xx

Jan Allison
Date: 1/4/2017 10:28:00 AM

It's people like Andrea who have inspired me with my poetry - she is an amazing poet Stephen I wish someone would snap her up and publish her poetry! hugs Jan xx

Stephen Pennell
Date: 1/4/2017 10:05:00 AM

not fixed your just to awesome

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 1/4/2017 8:33:00 AM

Yes, I see it is fixed now. And Stephen, don't say lesser poets. I just read so many amazing poems this morning (as usual up too early not able to sleep). There is a lot of poetic genius, male and female , at PoetrySoup!!

Stephen Pennell
Date: 1/4/2017 6:36:00 AM

you win to many comps lol its to give us lesser poets a chance lol :-)

Darren White
Date: 1/4/2017 12:15:00 AM

We all had the problem, but it's fixed now

Lewis Raynes
Date: 1/3/2017 10:12:00 PM

Mines all up and going again here, had same issues a few hours ago.

Deborah Burch
Date: 1/3/2017 9:05:00 PM

Same here Andy.

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 1/3/2017 6:44:00 PM

Finally, my fave poet and model as a youth was Sara Teasdale. However, here at Soup, I have a great many fave poets that are men as well as women. I enjoyed reading the comments of everyone here and they all have some merit!

Doug Vinson
Date: 1/6/2017 1:17:00 PM

I didn't read much poetry as a kid. But there were Impressionist paintings, the 'Intermezzo Sinfonico' from Pietro Mascagni's opera 'Cavalleria Rusticana,' Samuel Barber's 'Adagio For Strings,' or perhaps only a few high notes from a piano at the end of a sad movie. Sad music, but surely there is poetry within.

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 1/3/2017 6:44:00 PM

I think women simply enter more contests. It would be interesting to know the stats, but Soup got rid of "numbers" last year, where we could check out our number of wins, vs N/A's and stuff like that. There are a few people who post tons of poems every day just to be in the list of most poetry written. Therefore, the argument of males having more "bulk writes" is meaningless to me. One person on was simply posting the same poem over and over again with different titles. Unfortunately, public sites have many unfair issues. And everything is so subjective in this poetry world!

Doug Vinson
Date: 1/6/2017 1:19:00 PM

"This poetry world" - one thing I like about PoetrySoup is seeing poems from Africa and Asia. Australia, Europe and South America too are represented, but it usually seems more familiar to me, less exotic.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 1/3/2017 6:47:00 PM

I meant to say "one person I saw on the list of most poems" It's weird but at this moment, I am unable to go into my outbox and edit my comment here!

Daniel
Turner

Date: 1/3/2017 4:33:00 PM

Poetry is open to interpretation. It all depends on the sponsor's taste. I'm sure if there were an independent panel to judge, all results would be different for every contest. If one reads enough poetry on this site, it is very easy to pick who wrote which poem, simply by the style in which they write. their uniqueness is their signature. My $.02 :)

Doug Vinson
Date: 1/6/2017 12:45:00 PM

So true. Some people "want rhyme," for example. Some don't want it. Some want simple, some want extravagant language. Rainbows and unicorns, or visceral grit? : )

Lewis Raynes
Date: 1/5/2017 12:12:00 AM

No offence Daniel, I agree with you. You raised a truth about poetic styles, it is noticeable the preferences for judges sometimes..... That's not a bad thing at all. Just something to do with human nature.

Daniel Turner
Date: 1/4/2017 9:56:00 PM

I wasn't on the offensive, Lewis, merely stating the obvious. I'm sorry if I offended you. However, since you brought it up. If one is looking for a certain kind/style of poem, perhaps putting that in the directions would produce a better selection.

Lewis Raynes
Date: 1/4/2017 8:44:00 PM

It just occurred to me also, I tend not to enter into contests where I know the sponsor prefers a poetic style different to mine.

Robert
Stoner Jr

Date: 1/3/2017 3:14:00 PM

I just deleted 2 pages of poems from the site back to 2014 and have been removed from all the rankings, who knew, lol. Rankings have no memory.

Brian
Strand

Date: 1/3/2017 2:28:00 PM

In 56 of my premiere contests finalised over past 110 days the top two podium placed poets were male.In my ten years here I would say poetic giftings are spread equally between both sexes.Present company excepted ,my top three favourite poets are Adelaide Crapsey,Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti but that is probably more to do with the form of their poetry than anything else.I cannot tell the sex of the author in the 2000 poems in the aforementioned 56 contests.It is always a delightful moment to learn the names of the podium poets after I finalise and check out the ' Contest winner' link .

Darren
White

Date: 1/3/2017 12:39:00 PM

OR we should feel bad because they're so much better LOL

Darren White
Date: 1/4/2017 12:16:00 AM

@Keith, yeah it is interesting, I never gave it any thought before this blog. It's kind of funny :)

Darren White
Date: 1/3/2017 1:57:00 PM

I wouldn't know how...

Lewis Raynes
Date: 1/3/2017 1:09:00 PM

Maybe we should write from a female perspective.

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8/19/2020	Self help: Frustrating Thoughts	Quatrain	community,introspection,
8/17/2020	Self help: Computer	Quatrain	computer,life,social,soci
8/16/2020	Crime: Seven Grey Bullets Now Red	Quatrain	murder,
8/13/2020	Broken: Rage	Quatrain	anger,hurt,life,marriage,
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7/15/2020	Love: Her Perfect Man	Quatrain	anxiety,love,
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7/3/2020	Self help: Friend	Quatrain	friendship love,
7/1/2020	Fun: I Dislike This Poem	Quatrain	funny,
6/24/2020	Fun: Trumps Fired	Quatrain	political,
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5/18/2020	Broken: Cursed Friend	Quatrain	introspection,
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Fav Poems

PoemTitle	Form	Categories
I Think I Know Why the Ocean Flows	Free verse	love,nature,
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Stars	Free verse	beautiful,love,
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True Measure of a Man	Didactic	eulogy,
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Alex Grimm	United States	Read
Judith S	United States	Read
Silent One	United Kingdom	Read
Elena Welsh	United States	Read
Vijay Pandit	United States	Read
Line Gauthier	Canada	Read
Stefani Leslie	United States	Read
Leanne Lovejoy-Burton	Australia	Read
Barbara Barry-Nishanian	United States	Read
Muhammad Imtiaz	Pakistan	Read
Reena Choudhary	India	Read
Franklin Price	United States	Read
Sherry Beck	United States	Read
Olu Agbolade David	Ireland	Read
Kishan Sharma	India	Read
Sonia Walker	United States	Read
Gershon Wolf	United States	Read
Jenny Dillon	Ireland	Read
Iris Blade	United States	Read
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Mark Miller	United States	Read
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