What do you all like most about this forum?

[Magnetron]

I read Magnetron's poetry

Take some Tums and lie down for a while; that feeling in your stomach will eventually subside.

 

[Magnetron]

There is a lot more to poetry than whether one centers it or right justifies. Maybe, in time, the poet laureate Magnetron will learn that.

They tell me the same thing at the other five poetry websites I submit to.

I'm such a noob.

 

[Mayflow]

Take some Tums and lie down for a while; that feeling in your stomach will eventually subside.

I could I suppose go here? http://exploringyourmind.forumotion.com/t42-john-waterhouse

 

[Que]

Cleaver? I read Magnetron's poetry and got hold of the word "unabashioned" so it held reminiscience for me of the poem "The Ship" I had written albeit in a different setting. I do not believe you do not have the soul of a poet.

Modern neuroscience says that I am wrong to believe older neuroscience that there are left and right specific functions of the brain, in that the right side which (this part they agree) controls the left side of the body and (this part they do not) creative function.

I am very much a left brain-dominant person. I am not sure if the right side is underdeveloped, neglected, or the left side is simply overly assertive.

There are people that were studied for specific brain injuries where the two sides are cut off from each other and I think that supports the old notion.

So my left brain in analyzing how I seem to process things and running a monitoring track on the right side's measly efforts, have decided that I do better when I switch off my left brain.

Do you know Mel Tillis? He cannot speak with any degree of clarity for a bad stutter, but he sings flawlessly. Speech and music are in different parts of the brain. (Again, maybe it isn't strictly left-right, but it is these cells and those cells)

I can sing, play guitar, dance and write poetry, but I cannot do them while counting. I have to consciously switch back and forth. I know how to read music, but I cannot do so while playing. I "read" the music, memorize it, then I instruct my fingers which notes to play. I do it slowly, over and over with no soul at all, and badly, until my muscle memory "learns" the song, then I can play with nuance and feeling, but not during the process.

Dunno why that is.

 

[Que]

They tell me the same thing at the other five poetry websites I submit to.

I'm such a noob.

But a delightfully thick-skinned one.

 

[Mayflow]

Modern neuroscience says that I am wrong to believe older neuroscience that there are left and right specific functions of the brain, in that the right side which (this part they agree) controls the left side of the body and (this part they do not) creative function.

I am very much a left brain-dominant person. I am not sure if the right side is underdeveloped, neglected, or the left side is simply overly assertive.

There are people that were studied for specific brain injuries where the two sides are cut off from each other and I think that supports the old notion.

So my left brain in analyzing how I seem to process things and running a monitoring track on the right side's measly efforts, have decided that I do better when I switch off my left brain.

Do you know Mel Tillis? He cannot speak with any degree of clarity for a bad stutter, but he sings flawlessly. Speech and music are in different parts of the brain. (Again, maybe it isn't strictly left-right, but it is these cells and those cells)

I can sing, play guitar, dance and write poetry, but I cannot do them while counting. I have to consciously switch back and forth. I know how to read music, but I cannot do so while playing. I "read" the music, memorize it, then I instruct my fingers which notes to play. I do it slowly, over and over with no soul at all, and badly, until my muscle memory "learns" the song, then I can play with nuance and feeling, but not during the process.

Dunno why that is.

Well I don't know Mel Tellis, but I have heard of him, so it is maybe that you practice with dilegence and thoughtfulness, and then when you play or sing or write, you do so with - oh I think I know about this - in the process of learning, one first becomes aware that there is something maybe worth becoming aware of, then one learns about it, and thinks about it and works at it, and then one just zones in and does it.

 

[Que]

Well I don't know Mel Tellis, but I have heard of him, so it is maybe that you practice with dilegence and thoughtfulness, and then when you play or sing or write, you do so with - oh I think I know about this - in the process of learning, one first becomes aware that there is something maybe worth becoming aware of, then one learns about it, and thinks about it and works at it, and then one just zones in and does it.

That is a more zen way of looking at it.

I am often told (and tell myself) that it would benefit me to get "out of my head."

Perhaps what I am describing is what everyone does when they "follow their muse" or "follow their heart" or "live in the moment."

I have observed that like anything else, people that are "good" at "just being" do so often. They take time for quite reflection, or prayer, or meditation, or music, or whatever helps "center' them.

I tend to neglect those parts of my soul.

Perhaps linear thinking is an excuse.

 

[Debbie]

Has anyone seen my rose tinted glasses?

For sure this place has some ass hats, dick heads and a few assholes but it does have redeeming features too.


Sometimes behind the scenes in pm boxes, in email, on the phone, on skype etc people who met on the gb have rallied around and helped other people, made friends, travelled to meet each other. Some have fallen in love, become a couple and even had babies together.

That makes my heart go goo.

So for me the thing I like most about this forum is the people who frequent here.



So thanks Literotica, Laurel, Manu and posters on the GB.

Most of you are top notch and some of you are fucktards.

 

[unregistered]

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Modern neuroscience says that I am wrong to believe older neuroscience that there are left and right specific functions of the brain, in that the right side which (this part they agree) controls the left side of the body and (this part they do not) creative function.

I am very much a left brain-dominant person. I am not sure if the right side is underdeveloped, neglected, or the left side is simply overly assertive.

There are people that were studied for specific brain injuries where the two sides are cut off from each other and I think that supports the old notion.

So my left brain in analyzing how I seem to process things and running a monitoring track on the right side's measly efforts, have decided that I do better when I switch off my left brain.

Do you know Mel Tillis? He cannot speak with any degree of clarity for a bad stutter, but he sings flawlessly. Speech and music are in different parts of the brain. (Again, maybe it isn't strictly left-right, but it is these cells and those cells)

I can sing, play guitar, dance and write poetry, but I cannot do them while counting. I have to consciously switch back and forth. I know how to read music, but I cannot do so while playing. I "read" the music, memorize it, then I instruct my fingers which notes to play. I do it slowly, over and over with no soul at all, and badly, until my muscle memory "learns" the song, then I can play with nuance and feeling, but not during the process.

Dunno why that is.

Read THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND by Julian Jaynes. Jaynes thesis: Until 500 BC humans had no real sense of self, they existed and gods commanded them to action via aural and visual hallucinations. After 500 BC all the gods went away to heaven. Now we simply talk to ourselves and act out commands from what I call our ARCHAIC CHILD center. The new split brain allowed us to observe ourselves and thus become the old gods.

In my theory we have two command centers: The archaic child, and the adult executive. The archaic child acts thru the adult physiology.

 

[butters]

Very nice. There is a lot more to poetry than whether one centers it or right justifies.

*snip*

I was just remarking to Cleaver that I have trouble reading non-standard prose. I think it is beneficial for me to do so as it slows me to a stillness that contrasts nicely with the ordinary frenetic pace with which I intake.

there is

poetry is a mult-layered creature: it works less with words than with the interaction of the imagery created by the most carefully selected words and their sounds. sound, a musical element, can be key to the perceived success of a poem's cohesiveness.

you are right about the value of reading cleaver and other poets who write with restraint rather than flood the page with a tsunami of words. it gives you, the reader, space to explore, concentrate, and fill in the 'gaps'. in prose, i witter on; when i first explored poetry i did the same. with time and experience, one word or phrase takes the place of many, and each image wrought will interact with the individual reader's own headology: the reader is half of the poem. the most 'popular' poems, ones most people can relate to through their own experiences, work with common themes that release a sense of empathy/understandy within the readers. for me, the best poems are when the words disappear and i'm experiencing the visuals/hearing the sounds/feeling the emotions.

 

[PeteHulbert37]

The more time I spend on GB the more I get it. I probably still need to add about 4 or 5 users to the ignore list, but I'm not that diligent.

 

[Misshotndeep]

... *facepalm* why is it always Query? Hasn't he got anything better to do. Sigh!

 

[hogjack]

The very best of human thought devolving into flotsam and jetsam.

Inspirational but without the knife wounds. Nice.

 

[Mayflow]

The more time I spend on GB the more I get it. I probably still need to add about 4 or 5 users to the ignore list, but I'm not that diligent.

Probably no need for that as all are Heaven sent.
Just skim through
Butter writes nice poetry too.

Query is a querier which is poetry in mental motion
such as are waves upon the oceans.

These people may be deep but not unfathomable.

 

[Que]

there is

poetry is a mult-layered creature: it works less with words than with the interaction of the imagery created by the most carefully selected words and their sounds. sound, a musical element, can be key to the perceived success of a poem's cohesiveness.

you are right about the value of reading cleaver and other poets who write with restraint rather than flood the age with a tsunami of words. it gives you, the reader, space to explore, concentrate, and fill in the 'gaps'. in prose, i witter on; when i first explored poetry i did the same. with time and experience, one word or phrase takes the place of many, and each image wrought will interact with the individual reader's own headology: the reader is half of the poem. the most 'popular' poems, ones most people can relate to through their own experiences, work with common themes that release a sense of empathy/understandy within the readers. for me, the best poems are when the words disappear and i'm experiencing the visuals/hearing the sounds/feeling the emotions.

In "Polar Star" Martin Cruz Smith has a character quote a Russian author (poet maybe?) I am weak on Russian Writers (I should remedy that) so I don't remember if his author is made up or not.

What the person said about Russian Poetry was that the poetry is in the spaces between the words.

 

[snugglestruggle]

I am also a big fan of the people. Friendships, both those I've made and those we get to observe by paying attention. I've made a few friends here who are closer to me than many of my "real life" friends. Of course, those GB friendships have ventured off site into texting, email, Facebook, Skype, and even meeting up.

Also, this place is damn funny, filled with the witty dry humor I love and inside jokes marking years and layers of friendships.

Oh golly gee , i just this post.I couldn't have said it better myself, wait yes I can.

OK I'm not into Skype, Facebook or twitter but I will add the lying, backstabbing of friends, and the shameless manipulations of people to get what they want. Oh and the finger banging.

 

[Mayflow]

Oh golly gee , i just this post.I couldn't have said it better myself, wait yes I can.

OK I'm not into Skype, Facebook or twitter but I will add the lying, backstabbing of friends, and the shameless manipulations of people to get what they want. Oh and the finger banging.

You wouldn't be much fun at a party I think.

 

[butters]

In "Polar Star" Martin Cruz Smith has a character quote a Russian author (poet maybe?) I am weak on Russian Writers (I should remedy that) so I don't remember if his author is made up or not.

What the person said about Russian Poetry was that the poetry is in the spaces between the words.

that's a good novel

the spaces are important - they manipulate the speed of a reading, and allow input from the reader... like a breathing space for the mind to fill in more than physically appears on the page.

it was only through reading and writing poetry (as opposed to prose) that i found control of words. as a novice, the words had control of me.

 

[Magnetron]

... *facepalm* why is it always Query? Hasn't he got anything better to do. Sigh!

I'll just hold my open palm out while you repeatedly thrust your face into it.

 

[neci]

Oh golly gee , i just this post.I couldn't have said it better myself, wait yes I can.

OK I'm not into Skype, Facebook or twitter but I will add the lying, backstabbing of friends, and the shameless manipulations of people to get what they want. Oh and the finger banging.

good lord, you are a bitter cunt.

 

[Lord Pmann]

There are a lot of nice people here. Most of my friends are posters on the GB, though I've met very few of them actually through the GB. This particular forum is full of pretty awful people. That's why I like it so much.

But honestly, once I put a few people on ignore, it made the whole forum look a bit less like a klan rally and much more interesting. I've talked to some interesting people here. Some I consider very close friends.

It's easy to talk to people here. Plus you see boobs.

 

[spacekowboy]

It's the free soft pretzels.

 

[girlsmiley]

Certain posters.

New people.

The lols.

 

[pollynova]

I like the fun threads and a lot of you are really funny. I can do without the political stuff though. It seems like a lot of you are really close though and it's intimidating to just jump right in. I hope I can get to know you all better.