Tresspassing

[impressive]

I rec'd an e-mail this morning from someone congratulating me on the December category honors, and part of my response was that regardless of the accolades, I still feel like I'm "tresspassing" when I submit poetry and/or participate in this forum.

It got me wondering when/if y'all stopped feeling like a dabbler and started feeling like a poet.

 

[WickedEve]

There was a similar thread in 2002 (I think). I remember at the time I did not consider my poet. I don't think I did until 2003. It just happens and you know you're one.
So, you feel like a dabbler?

 

[impressive]

So, you feel like a dabbler?

No, not exactly ... just not really like a poet, either.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I think I only convinced myself I was writing poetry early in 2003. It's when I started to feel confident enough to really stretch my metaphorical wings.

I stopped feeling like I was trespassing the forum much earlier, though, in June of 2002.

More specifically, I think it was in this thread, after writing the epic "My Hot Wet Tight Pussy".


Seriously, go read that thread. It's hilarious.

 

[CharleyH]

I rec'd an e-mail this morning from someone congratulating me on the December category honors, and part of my response was that regardless of the accolades, I still feel like I'm "tresspassing" when I submit poetry and/or participate in this forum.

It got me wondering when/if y'all stopped feeling like a dabbler and started feeling like a poet.

The moment the word can slip from YOUR lips. Kinda like being a writer . . . until you say it a few times, you don't believe it, and once it comes off of your lips, you know it is true: Yeah, I'm a fucking god damn writer, and pseudo-poet too!

EDIT: OK read more now: these poets on here, the upper class porn writers they are with all their scansion and metre and stanzas? DO NOT feel intimidated, simply post . . . lol

They all SEEM good people, though a BIT (raised eyebrow) uppity The question is . . . can you figure where each of them wants it uPPed?

 

[The_Fool]

I only do it for the sex......

 

[impressive]

Seriously, go read that thread. It's hilarious.

Done -- and agreed.

 

[impressive]

Re: Re: Tresspassing

The moment the word can slip from YOUR lips.

Understood. "Writer" fits me better, I think. Actually, I want to write more prose ... but poetry keeps coming out.

 

[impressive]

I only do it for the sex......

You get sex? I'm doing something wrong, then.

 

[Remec]

It got me wondering when/if y'all stopped feeling like a dabbler and started feeling like a poet.

I've written...off and on, to varying degrees of success and skill...since I was in grade school. While I came up with many, many stories, it was the poetry that managed to work itself onto a page--or journal, typewriter, computer, website...but, through it all, I'd have to say I have always "dabbled".

One of these days, the kids will be old enough and enough bills squared away, that I will be able to devote more energy into all the creative facets of my life. Stories and poems and returning to stage work (I have a degree in theatre arts) are just waiting anxiously. I hope. <g>

But, until then, I read...and write...and read...and learn...and, as often as I possibly can, dabble.

 

[Remec]

You get sex? I'm doing something wrong, then.

You and me both, hon...hehehe

 

[My Erotic Tale]

dabbler

dabbler .....

I'd be a 'LIAR' if I said I was a poet
but then I'd be liar and then I'd be
a poet <grin>

I like... poetry is easy, its the feeling
you get from lifes events people and things

it's describing (writing) them that's hard!

 

[WickedEve]

I think I only convinced myself I was writing poetry early in 2003. It's when I started to feel confident enough to really stretch my metaphorical wings.

I stopped feeling like I was trespassing the forum much earlier, though, in June of 2002.

More specifically, I think it was in this thread, after writing the epic "My Hot Wet Tight Pussy".


Seriously, go read that thread. It's hilarious.

Oh no, the pussy thread.
We have a lot of classic threads. Remember the cockagami or kokagami thread? Some weired word I came up with and then sweetwood wrote a kokagami poem. I think you changed the spelling to kokagami.
And there was weird thread where I, redwave, kat, and some others added to this really twisted story that included you and sp, judo, UP and daughter. Remember? lol I gotta find those...

 

[WickedEve]

No, not exactly ... just not really like a poet, either.

I remember that stage. Before summer you'll be calling yourself a poet, maybe super poet.

 

[Liar]

What's all this talk about poets? Is that what we are? Cool.

 

[impressive]

What's all this talk about poets? Is that what we are? Cool.

You are. I'm just becoming.

 

[My Erotic Tale]

You are. I'm just becoming.

modesty,

I would expect that from some one so ...
Impressive <grin>

your work lives up to your name!

 

[impressive]

modesty,

I would expect that from some one so ...
Impressive <grin>

your work lives up to your name!

You are sweet. Delusional, but sweet.

 

[minsue]

I consider myself more of a doodler than a dabbler, but I know what you mean.

And I still feel like I'm tresspassing here, I just don't feel guilty about it anymore.

 

[annaswirls]

a poet is just someone who writes poetry, so poet you be!

and as far as feeling like a trespasser on the boards, it does take time, the more you just jump in and get used to things the better.

It takes time for people to believe you are going to stick around, so many people blow through like a hurricaine (or a drizzle) and then they are gone. It takes me a long time to get to know people who come in, to know their style, their personality, their sense of humor.... think of it as a huge party and when you are the new person in the door, you have no idea who knows who, what and when, and you feel like a trespasser until you figure out that many people do not even remember their real name or who they came with. And many of them just walked in the door 5 minutes before you.

so post
write
post
write
post
write

and in about 2 months, new people will be asking you questions about submitting illustrated poetry and calling you a regular.

or an old litter

you know the gig

 

[impressive]

And I still feel like I'm tresspassing here, I just don't feel guilty about it anymore.

 

[impressive]

a poet is just someone who writes poetry, so poet you be!

A rose by any other name ...

 

[sandspike]

If you at home you ain't tresspassing!

impressive, you do good work, you are a poet. Your JOB is to
take what you do and make it the best you can. If you feel
you have a place here you are a poet. You got your Pat
Carringtons and your Uncle Pervs. They are both poets who
do what they do very well. Yeah, there is a night and day
difference in what they do, but they be POETS girl. This is
a big house and as a poet you have a room here. Just
don't go up in the attic.

 

[minsue]

Re: If you at home you ain't tresspassing!

Just
don't go up in the attic.

I wish someone had warned me about it when I first got here.

*shudder*

 

[impressive]

Re: If you at home you ain't tresspassing!

impressive, you do good work, you are a poet. Your JOB is to
take what you do and make it the best you can. If you feel
you have a place here you are a poet. You got your Pat
Carringtons and your Uncle Pervs. They are both poets who
do what they do very well. Yeah, there is a night and day
difference in what they do, but they be POETS girl. This is
a big house and as a poet you have a room here. Just
don't go up in the attic.

Thanks.