probably some of you do react to my poetry the same way
Or even just ideas, such as volcanoes as windows into the soul of the planet - adored that (as I said).
middle-aged white dude being all "pfft who needs confessional poetry anyway
We write (/create) for multiple reasons and one of those reasons has to be ourselves, everything after that is a bonus. And a valid part of writing for ourselves is using it as a medium to understand ourselves/the world around us. And who needs to be long-winded for 'grand sweeping scope', my one successful poem of the past decade deals with the WWII War in the Pacific and the arms race that preceded it. It's a haiku...
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Date: 2014-09-03 10:07 pm (UTC)Or even just ideas, such as volcanoes as windows into the soul of the planet - adored that (as I said).
We write (/create) for multiple reasons and one of those reasons has to be ourselves, everything after that is a bonus. And a valid part of writing for ourselves is using it as a medium to understand ourselves/the world around us. And who needs to be long-winded for 'grand sweeping scope', my one successful poem of the past decade deals with the WWII War in the Pacific and the arms race that preceded it. It's a haiku...