Uninterrupted. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing? It seems that my entire day is nothing more than one big interruption after distraction. 10 minutes of pure writing is a whole lot more difficult for me than people would imagine. This here, this is my 4th.. 5th.. something like that.. attempt to write for 10 minutes straight. I think I actually got through almost 8 minutes once.
It got deleted. It was super critical of other people’s writing, or at least I felt it was, and I don’t want to offend anyone. Yet, somehow, I still can’t get that thought out of my head. So.. maybe I will offend. I warned you.
Poems. I am almost tired of seeing poems on the blog. Almost. Now, mind you, I love poetry. I think it is a beautiful art form that truly expresses thoughts in an emotionally engaging manner. Except.. a lot of what I read tends to fall into the category of.. hey, look, I can put words on paper (or whatever this whitespace we type on is classified as) and then hit publish. I like some poems that are here, and those I give a like too. I try not to just like stuff as a form of ambivalent encouragement.
That thought, by the way, is not just held about the poems I read here. I have had several conversations over the last few weeks were people have used the tripe quote..”Poetry is for the reader to interpret.”
That is such a load of crap. When I write…
And…interruption…
So.. where was I… oh yeah.. when I write poetry, I always have an interpretation in mind. Yet, I know you have read stuff that you are left just going.. bwah-huh? Yeah, that’s a word, and it has a facial look to it too.
No, I’m not saying my poetry is good. Far from it. But, isn’t poetry suppose to illicit a feeling? Draw you in? Paint a picture with words? Something?
I don’t know. Maybe I am just super critical. Maybe I am becoming the crogity old coot that yells at kids to get off my lawn… but.. I’m only 43.. so.. bwah-huh?
Even in my own writing, I prefer to draw on the emotions. Pull them out, savor on them, allowing my reader to enjoy the moments as felt by the character. Sometimes, I am successful. Sometimes I fall horribly. Sometimes I fail horribly and think I’m succesful. Trust me, you all let me know so well by the comments and likes my posts get.
This post, I don’t think will get many likes. Being critical I guess does that.
Anyway.. if you are still reading this, let me leave you writers with a bit of encouragement:
Thoughts from the Front 
Type faster!
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I know.. I saw that I typed less the 500 words in ten minutes and was like.. buh-wah?
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I try to write poetry that doesn’t take too much interpretation. Hopefully readers find it as such. Sorry, just couldn’t help but take your blog personally, but not necessarily in a bad way!
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Well, I like some of your poetry.. I think you do a good job of painting a picture of your crazy youthful days. My thoughts were more about the ones you read and you sit there thinking.. what did I just read? No soul, no passion, no anything.. just words.. almost for words sake.
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Yep, I know what you mean.
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I used to write poetry, then I took creative writing in college. Haven’t written a poem since. It killed my muse! I don’t mind reading it so much… but I tend not to follow blogs that are nothing but poetry because I’m not a big fan of it.
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I love your honesty 🙂
You don’t have to like everything you read. It’s great that we can choose!
I chose to read till the end and I liked it!
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I did not hit “like” just to be encouraging (although I must admit sometimes I do that just so the blogger knows someone out there in cyberspace is reading his stuff). I agree about the poetry. I used to try to write it, but it always ended up being sing-song and trite, so I stopped. There are some outstanding poets here, and when I’ve finished reading their work I know what I’ve just read. Others? Not so much. Too obscure. My favorite poetry is story in poetic form. I can understand it.
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It’s funny, because as of late, I have started writing a bit more poetry. Not sure why, just seems the daily prompt doesn’t deserve the effort of a full on focused story and something about the way Tom, at “From Balderdash to Epiphany”, writes his stuff sticks with me… funny, short, entertaining. That way I can focus more on the writing for my book.. now.. if only I actually did that it would be great. (the link to his page is https://wordpress.com/read/blog/id/23323613/ )
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I love Tom’s stuff. He’s always funny, and it amazes me how he comes up with something every single day.
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Exactly.
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