12-30-2015, 01:18 PM
(12-30-2015, 06:52 AM)Apache Wrote: Hi everyone!
Decided to join this on a whim today. I've been writing all sorts of things, poetry included, on a semi-serious basis for several years now. I recently decided that the shoulder-high stack of journals and notebooks next to my couch is a waste of space if I don't make an effort to separate the wheat from the chaff with an eye towards publication at some point. I recently submitted some of my poems to a local literary journal in North Carolina, where I currently reside, but I decided that I liked the idea of having all of you fine, anonymous lads and lasses scrutinize some of my pieces more than I can on my own. So here I am! I will probably post something for review today or tomorrow; in the meantime I am going to try my hand at giving criticism/praise to some of the ones already posted.
The heart of the soul of the barest essence of poetic shenanigans is whimsy.
If it wasn't for whimsy, Adam and Eve would still be in Eden and the Tree of
Knowledge's sweet fruit would remain untasted. (The Tree of Life, by the way,
bears bitter fruit. Gods are tricksters, every damn one of them.)
Writing, if it is to be worthy of attention, must be written on a semi-serious (or semi-facetious) basis.
To do otherwise would be to commit ones intelect to the stasis (like heaven or hell) of eternal tedium.
The quest for publication is a fool's odyssey; but what the hell, why not?
"... but I decided that I liked the idea of having all of you fine, anonymous lads and lasses scrutinize some of my pieces ... "
This, actually, isn't a bad idea.
Welcome,
Ray
P.S. By the way, not all of us are anonymous. My name is Ray Heinrich and I reside in Baytown, Texas, USA.
My phone number and address are listed in numerous internet white pages. One of my email addresses
is ray@wordbiscuit.com ... and Google Earth retains an excellent photograph of my recyclables bin with
a gray tabby cat (the one pictured in my Avatar) sitting atop it.
The cat's full name is "Shiva the Destroyer of Ego".
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions