Poetry part 3

[Typhoid]

Just to let you know, thats usually a scam. They send you an email, or a letter, after youve submitted a peom on the website or mail, Then they ask you if you want to buy a book with your poem in it( among others) and the book is filled with like minded peoples poems. It is only sold to those who submit the poems, and it costs usually about $200. My friend almost got scammed into it, he got an email saying he was invited to a poetry reading in L.A. and he only needed to pay his money in advance through chequing or visa to a certain website.

[DimHalo]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Just to let you know, thats usually a scam. They send you an email, or a letter, after youve submitted a peom on the website or mail, Then they ask you if you want to buy a book with your poem in it( among others) and the book is filled with like minded peoples poems. It is only sold to those who submit the poems, and it costs usually about $200. My friend almost got scammed into it, he got an email saying he was invited to a poetry reading in L.A. and he only needed to pay his money in advance through chequing or visa to a certain website.

Well, actually I've been published before and the book was kind of expensive but it is in college libraries and a couple of stores in Europe (that I know of for sure). They have asked if I want to buy one but I'm not going to. It is just for the sake of being able to say that my work is in print. So the word usually is going a bit far

[Typhoid]

Sorry, js....and why is it that these threads usually break down after only few posts?

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Sorry, js....and why is it that these threads usually break down after only few posts?

'Cause you and I are the only ones writing poetry to post in it, and we cant put out quality pieces every few hours.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

'Cause you and I are the only ones writing poetry to post in it, and we cant put out quality pieces every few hours.

True, but i dont even want to put my 'quality' pieces in it, in fear of plagorism.

Are the people here who write things, too scared to show it or something? I mean come on....we need peotic diversity here.



But i will try to post more in here, and i encourage others to do so as well.

[The Germanator]

I don't actually write poems often at all...It's something that I don't quite have the patience for. I'm not really good at revising my work, and that is something pretty much essential to poetry because every word is so important...If I was still writing more poems, I'd probably post them, but I haven't written any and don't plan to for a bit..

[Professor S]

Here's a poem a made recently. Its being made into a song by a friend of mine.


26 Going on Infinity

Caught out in the rain
Somewhere between Pride and Shame
Will I be here again?
Maybe I want to

The road goes on for miles
Covered in a thousand tiles
Pictures of me as a child
Youth lost to you

Don’t know what I want to be
College wasn’t much help to me
Can’t find my Identity
26 going on Infinity

Trapped by self doubt
Stick my thumb out
In frustration I shout
Only I can hear

Time to walk
Ahead and not balk
Erase the lines of chalk
That I fear

This isn’t how it was supposed to be
Live my life for me
I don’t want an Identity
26 going on Infinity


The first two stanzas are really the only one's that I think are any good, but I needed two more for the song so I made something up about hitchhiking through life.

And incase any of you were wondering, my main influence is TS Elliot, and if any of you have read him before you'll probably see the similarity/rip off.