I'm so fucking ecstatic!!

[Guest]

OMG! I just put this on the G.B. I've got to go delete it, but here's the good news!

A woman named Kathleen that I've known for two years just emailed to tell me she'd like to use my poem in her magazine called "Remark". I'm floating on air!! It doesn't pay anything at this time, but I'm SO excited and just had to share this. She also said she wants to read all the others since we lost contact a while back, and they could go in as well in the near future. Ah man! My name is going to be in a mag. Woo-fucking-hoo!!

Here's the poem. I believe this was started in the sudden passion thread, and I also put it elsewhere on the net. It was recently revised.

"I Blame You" (darker)


Thank you, daddy
for sparkling blue eyes,
my smile that everyone loves
while I question
where my full lips came from,
although they're admired by some,

but you know it's impossible
to give thanks for road rage,
impatience, and anger,
fear and erratic behavior
'cause you wanted to plunge mommy
not wanting a baby then leaving,

and now I have to exist
living in madness
until God scratches me off his list,
and I sit and wonder why
you two didn't think about
using a coat hanger.




edit: Crap! I can't delete it. Someone already quoted it. Argh! Oh well. I'm too happy to care!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Congratulations, Saldne. Good news.

 

[BooMerengue]

Way to go, Saldne! It's a great feeling, isn't it? Keep going kid!

 

[echoes_s]

Congratulations Saldne!

 

[flyguy69]

Lucky guy, that ecstatic!

Congrats, Saldne. It is a powerful poem.

 

[Guest]

Thank you!

It's going to be in the magazine in 2 weeks. *does happy dance*

It's in the US, Germany, England, Australia and I believe she said New Zealand as well. It's also for sale in a store in Chicago called Quimby's.

I'm dancing and screaming around the house, and my kids think I'm going insane. All I can say is Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!! I can only hope this is the beginning, and someone else will notice me as well. I have over 200 poems and stories I haven't even put out on the internet. Now I think it's time!

hoot hoot

 

[Jennifer C]

Congratulations Saldne

That's wonderful news!

Well Done

 

[Guest]

hoot!

 

[mischievousgrin]

Rock on with your bad self.

I think you have to buy us all a drink now.

 

[annaswirls]

Congrats! I hope this starts a chain for you! Two weeks? That is a QUICK turn around, way to go!

 

[BrinkOfDoom]

Wow! Congratulations! Good news - great news!

 

[Guest]

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[impressive]

Your enthusiasm is contagious! CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[Guest]

Congratulation Saldne!

 

[Luv2PleasureF]

I am somebody after-all. It took me this long to figure it out. Write on, rock on, and cheers to all!

I knew it all along, Beloved.

I am so proud of you!

 

[Guest]

Your enthusiasm is contagious! CONGRATULATIONS!

Contagious?? Ahh! Another boost! Thank you!

 

[Du Lac]

Congratulations Saldne!
du lac~

 

[echoes_s]

I am somebody after-all. It took me this long to figure it out. Write on, rock on, and cheers to all!

Everybody is somebody, doesn't matter what they do or who they are...or what they have been told.

...sounds a lot like my family situation hon

all you have to know and believe in is yourself first

someone told me here once, you make your own family, closer than blood relations, from friends

 

[Guest]

Congratulations Saldne!
du lac~

Thanks, hon! *does happy dance too*

Everybody is somebody, doesn't matter what they do or who they are...or what they have been told.

...sounds a lot like my family situation hon

all you have to know and believe in is yourself first

someone told me here once, you make your own family, closer than blood relations, from friends

You're absolutely right! Not always is the saying true "Blood is thicker than water"

For some, there is no one, and for some, there's only friends we can call family. I find it very sad.

I'm sorry you've lived the same or even close. *hugs*

 

[echoes_s]

You're absolutely right! Not always is the saying true "Blood is thicker than water"

and unfortunately the saying "that which does not kill you makes you stronger" is not always true also.
I have witness much of this also and am thankful I am strong and survived and have only grown stronger.

I also have an offer to publish a book and a book of poetry...the book will shock my relatives, parents included and siblings but it will be fiction. Then they will pretend it didn't happen and I do not exist again which is how I want this to be anyway, for the peace of all here.

For some, there is no one, and for some, there's only friends we can call family. I find it very sad.

would you rather call your friends family or your family? I am honored to call my friends family and they are, we all are.
It might be sad but there is so much worse out there...are we not still alive and learning, growing, understanding more and moving on, making our own lives and being free?

I'm sorry you've lived the same or even close. *hugs

Aye the same here, i would not wish pain on anyone...it's awesome you are out there taking on Goliath too

 

[Guest]

I also have an offer to publish a book and a book of poetry...the book will shock my relatives, parents included and siblings but it will be fiction. Then they will pretend it didn't happen and I do not exist again which is how I want this to be anyway, for the peace of all here.

We gotta do what we gotta do in order to survive. I think it's a great idea to keep it fiction. You should really just go for it!

Peace to you and yours...(((echoes)))

 

[Man Ray]

I can't think of a nicer person or a better poet to have the pleasure of being published! Well done!

 

[annaswirls]

I also have an offer to publish a book and a book of poetry...the book will shock my relatives, parents included and siblings but it will be fiction. Then they will pretend it didn't happen and I do not exist again which is how I want this to be anyway, for the peace of all here....

Cool beans! Make sure you let us know when it is out!

 

[Guest]

I can't think of a nicer person or a better poet to have the pleasure of being published! Well done!

Have we spoken before?


Thanks, doll!

 

[average gina]

...I hate to say this, but I'm emailing them to let them know so they get a copy. I was told my entire life that I'd amount to nothing, and I'm happy to FINALLY say, THEY WERE WRONG!


I am somebody after-all. It took me this long to figure it out. Write on, rock on, and cheers to all!

You always were more than nothing. You are something now and you will be more than what you are in the future. Let no ignorance mislead you.

Those that press that kind of thinking into you for so long were small minded anyway.

A piece of advice: Don't tell them they were wrong. If you do and they don't get it, then your purpose for saying it would be for nothing. Send them the copy. They will either be ignorant enough to not grasp what you were trying to tell them or they will get what you are trying to tell them and you don't sink to their level.

I do know of what I speak here.

Congratufuckinglations! ​

... ad infinitum and on and on, too.