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Assumed Chains of Poetry?
15 years ago
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I am quite sure I'm not the only person for whom the weight of one's own poetry was applied to oneself.
Time and time again the words and meanings of my own poetry, much as I detest it, has been applied to myself.
I may write a grand a powerful poem but that does not mean it is about me or for me.
When I write poetry, if that is what it may be called, I do not write my barest thoughts and lightest soul upon paper and from there to the vast halls of the internet.
When I write poetry it is for no other reason then to keep a potentially good idea from going to waste and to show the world at large that every single pleasant thing has the darkest sides to it.
I may write a poem of death and sorrow but that DOES NOT mean that I feel sorrowful or that someone near me has died. It means inspiration has once more hit me in the back of the head, smashing my face against the keyboard until I co-operate with its insidious whispers.
I write poems and prose of love and joy, dismay and despair, life and death, dark and light but honestly I still stand uneffected by them and no better or worse because of them. I am a completely different mind, soul, heart, etc, pick your weighty object, than my poetic writings.
THAT is why I have a writing alias. To further point out that I, AnthonyM, do not feel the things I write of in poetry. I don't like poetry. I don't like writing it and I don't like reading it. If I read it someone got lucky and I happened across it whilst in a mood to read. If I favorite a poem then Bravo! You wrote something exceptionally dark or I liked the tone of it.
Poems and poetry aren't my thing and I don't like the meanings of them applied to me.
I shall not carry these Assumed Chains of Poetry.
and this is very likely the only time I will ever make a public service announcement (Journal) saying as much.
AnthonyM~
Maoku~
Time and time again the words and meanings of my own poetry, much as I detest it, has been applied to myself.
I may write a grand a powerful poem but that does not mean it is about me or for me.
When I write poetry, if that is what it may be called, I do not write my barest thoughts and lightest soul upon paper and from there to the vast halls of the internet.
When I write poetry it is for no other reason then to keep a potentially good idea from going to waste and to show the world at large that every single pleasant thing has the darkest sides to it.
I may write a poem of death and sorrow but that DOES NOT mean that I feel sorrowful or that someone near me has died. It means inspiration has once more hit me in the back of the head, smashing my face against the keyboard until I co-operate with its insidious whispers.
I write poems and prose of love and joy, dismay and despair, life and death, dark and light but honestly I still stand uneffected by them and no better or worse because of them. I am a completely different mind, soul, heart, etc, pick your weighty object, than my poetic writings.
THAT is why I have a writing alias. To further point out that I, AnthonyM, do not feel the things I write of in poetry. I don't like poetry. I don't like writing it and I don't like reading it. If I read it someone got lucky and I happened across it whilst in a mood to read. If I favorite a poem then Bravo! You wrote something exceptionally dark or I liked the tone of it.
Poems and poetry aren't my thing and I don't like the meanings of them applied to me.
I shall not carry these Assumed Chains of Poetry.
and this is very likely the only time I will ever make a public service announcement (Journal) saying as much.
AnthonyM~
Maoku~
and thank you