• wombat said on Oct 30, 2009....

  Wow.  I think this is very good, and wish I had written it.

• travelr712 said on Oct 30, 2009....

  ya know wombie, i never know if what i write is any good or total shit. thank you for that compliment, it makes me feel really good that you liked it.

• wombat said on Oct 30, 2009....

  You're welcome.  I usually hate people reading my "stuff" because as long as I keep it to myself, I can go on thinking it's good.  But sometimes, it just really is! And should be shared.  So, thank you!
   
  (sounds like I didn't like your other poems, but you know what I mean, I hope)

• travelr712 said on Oct 30, 2009....

  i know what you mean wombie. i've been posting poetry here for two years now. some good, some not so good, some i consider complete gems that no one else liked, or so it seemed at the time. i still don't know. one thing i do know, in order to hone a craft, you have to put it out there in the public eye and take the criticism and the being ignored to make yourself better. what i'm saying is, this is a really safe place to take that chance, you might find much better reception to your own poetry than you think.

  hmm, talk about realizing dreams. i just realized. i'm really good at computers, but if i could be a successful poet, then i'd feel like i fulfilled my purpose in life. go figure!

• wombat said on Oct 30, 2009....

  I've spent many hours here, "honing my craft" so to speak, but have been afraid to make that leap and try to write a book and get it published, even if it stinks.  (Even if I have to pay for it and get nothing back.)  I've been saving up money in my savings account for this purpose.  Now I have to finish it when I quit work soon,  spend the money, and then take the criticism/being ignored part.  But I still want to do it!  I used to write alot of poetry, but have slacked off.  It's good to see someone still enjoying that style of expression.

  I know there must be lots of jobs for computer experts if you can get them, and I hope you find the right one for you, but never quit writing what's in your heart.  CreativeWoman wrote recently on one of her posts that if "you do what you love, the money will follow."   I hope she's right, because I'm going to give it one more shot.

  Do what you love, and work if you have to.  Works for me!

• travelr712 said on Oct 30, 2009....

  well i meant specifically about poetry wombie. i always thought you had the humor down, something i've had no success with. so feeeew people appreciate the subtleties of my humor, if you get my meaning. but i don't remember ever seeing your poetry. you should post some.

  i don't know about that whole 'the money will follow' thing. i've known too many people who did what they love and never got any money for it, cw included. me, i don't want to be rich or anything. i'd just like to pay my bills and have a few people appreciate how i structure a sentence...

• travelr712 said on Oct 30, 2009....

  well, ok, i'd like the whole world to acclaim my poetry and to win a pulitzer, but poets have a lower status than painters in this 'modern world', hedge fund managers have the money, so i don't expect anything so grandure. i'd just like for a few people to read what i write and have it matter to them, that's the best i can hope for.

• wombat said on Oct 30, 2009....

  Well, this is my last poem here, or most recent, I should say....

  I feel the same way you do.  What you have to say falls way short of what you have to do to survive sometimes.  But if there's a will, there's a way, as they say.  Who knows who will read this post 100 years from now? 

  Who knows who will read it tomorrow?

• travelr712 said on Oct 30, 2009....

  you're a minimalist like me wombie. we seem to have similar styles. and yes, it was very good. thank you for sharing.

• Hegemone said on Oct 30, 2009....

  Very neat Trav, I really like this one in it's simplicity, and yet the enormity, and the truthfulness.  Also, I admit I had to read it three times because my sleepy, buzzed eyes read 'thong' the first two times instead of 'throng' and it wasn't that it threw me off for content, but that I kept wondering 'Why does he all of a sudden mention a thong?' so much so that I sort of auto-piloted the rest of the poem.  Third try was a charm and I'm glad that it was.  :-)

• travelr712 said on Oct 31, 2009....

  thank you hege. it was actually an appology. and i wondered about the 'throng, thong' thing. i sometimes write with romantic period wording and people aren't used to that anymore. some things just can't be written any other way tho.

  glad you liked it :-)

• queenparanoia said on Oct 31, 2009....

  sooooooooooooo original...

  oh yeah yorue better writer than me now... ;-p

  just kidding i like it... ;-)

• travelr712 said on Oct 31, 2009....

  hmm, that was a... joke? :-P

• WithoutShade said 5 days ago....

  The muse is a muse, it exists to just be.
  It flows down the river without questioning thee.
  For once it mistakes,
  The question it makes,
  No longer a muse, but a question shall it be.
  

• travelr712 said 5 days ago....

  would muse loose it's beauty

  it's luster, it's shine

  if but once mistaken

  to live in decline?

  whatever the purpose

  the muse is to serve

  would purpose yet falter

  should muse loose its nerve?

  is muse such a being

  to mistaken be?

  perhaps in age faltered

  thus yet will i see.

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