Angeline
Poet Chick
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2002
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butters has been a member of our poetry community since 2009 (she was known as "chipbutty" until rather recently) and currently has 35 poetry submissions on her page. She also moderated this forum for about a year (correct me if I've got the time wrong Ms. B), so it is safe to say she knows her way around Literotica and poetry.
This interview is an opportunity to explore her poems and ideas. You can ask her whatever questions you like. She has agreed to respond in kind. I'm just going to start the ball rolling, but the rest of you are encouraged to get involved with questions, comments, compliments, critique or really whatever moves you as long as the focus is on butters. Civility is expected and specificity is much desired. Free exchange of ideas and learning is the goal.
To start I have a few general questions and then, a few more specific ones:
butters, how long have you been writing poetry and what got you interested in it?
Here is a poem of yours that I like a lot because it summarizes what I think many poets feel about our own attempts at the genre. It makes us crazy at times (I am totally on board with that notion!). And whether we've earned "laurels" or not, I'm sure we all wonder why poetry? Why me? Can you talk about what moved you to write this? What are its influences? You wrote it a few years back: is there anything now you'd change about it?
Poet
by butters©
and should our eyes grow wild upon
this diet of ambrosia and dust;
and should these visions torment us
with howling griefs, outrageous joys the same;
should comfort and distress become
our burn, our greed, our fevered daily bread -
will laurels, earned, be worth the name they say?
or is it, still, a price too high to pay?
This interview is an opportunity to explore her poems and ideas. You can ask her whatever questions you like. She has agreed to respond in kind. I'm just going to start the ball rolling, but the rest of you are encouraged to get involved with questions, comments, compliments, critique or really whatever moves you as long as the focus is on butters. Civility is expected and specificity is much desired. Free exchange of ideas and learning is the goal.
To start I have a few general questions and then, a few more specific ones:
butters, how long have you been writing poetry and what got you interested in it?
Here is a poem of yours that I like a lot because it summarizes what I think many poets feel about our own attempts at the genre. It makes us crazy at times (I am totally on board with that notion!). And whether we've earned "laurels" or not, I'm sure we all wonder why poetry? Why me? Can you talk about what moved you to write this? What are its influences? You wrote it a few years back: is there anything now you'd change about it?
Poet
by butters©
and should our eyes grow wild upon
this diet of ambrosia and dust;
and should these visions torment us
with howling griefs, outrageous joys the same;
should comfort and distress become
our burn, our greed, our fevered daily bread -
will laurels, earned, be worth the name they say?
or is it, still, a price too high to pay?