You guys are lame

[Guest]

I watched and waited in September you guys sucked and then in a month you guys were hot shit. You guys rallied behind a loud mouth (I admit he was entertaining) and poetry exploded for a couple months. You pushed, and pushed. We the writers were first appalled and then stunned by the feisty poet upstarts. You marched and ranted each week dominating more of the space; your views went up, the post exploded. The powers that be sat up and took notice. You led revolts against voting, and lists you got your own forum and then you turned on each other. Your leaders left and now you do song parodies and flirt more than the fucking general board. You gave up, and that’s the difference between you guys and us. We may be amateurs but we are writers and we keep writing and talking about writing. You guys suck! And glad I’m not a poet.

Poetry I never liked it. But for a moment you guys made us writers take notice. We even adopted some of your stuff. Your drive and sense of community pushed us. You even started to pull prose writers to your forum. Maybe this slap in the face will wake you guys up. I look in here and I wonder what the hell happened. Your poetry has returned to that sop it was.

 

[Guest]

I'm a trouble maker...

And I'm too much of a coward to use my name.
I post shit like this because I'm bored.

Poetry Lover

 

[Guest]

I'm no troublemaker!

Just my opinion, you sops could never take crits and opinions! Go write a song. Or pat some sap on the back. You could even write a poem.

 

[Guest]

Ok, you milk toast sops took my name so I will take this one.

How does it look on me?

formerly Poetry Lover

 

[smithpeter]

not lame, taking time to taste lust, life, lasciviousness like you.

Like a writer
Cycles permit only
Flow diminished or
Effulgence

Valves twisted
Hairs allowing
Nipples that some
Adore endlessly

cheerfully soaked pussies

Cycles
Precede cycles

 

[Poetry Lover]

Why do you feel the need to come here and complain? If you don't like poetry to start with, then what's your purpose here? You pointed out some valid problems, but you offered no solutions. I think if you don't participate or contribute to this poetry community, then you're wasting your time. Why would the poets and readers here want to listen to an "outsider" with a "you guys suck" attitude.

Read your original post again. Don't you think you could have done better? You could have presented your observations in a intelligent way and offered advice. I'm sure if you do that, posters will respond more kindly, and maybe even be appreciative.


A registered Poetry Lover

 

[Poetry Lover]

Well put, smithpeter.

unregistered, have you missed out on our poetry olympics? We do try to stay busy around here. We can't write poetry constantly. Things do slow down. Poets have other projects at other sites. And we flirt for a reason! It's our inspiration!

 

[Guest]

I was just making an observation. I didn't miss it, it was dude. I was just commenting your board has died.

Flirting is your inspiration? That's rich! I will be more positve next time and pat you guys on the back. I don't know but here's a suggestion post some poems

The new UP

 

[UnmaskedPoet]

unregistered no more

Now lets see some son-of-a-bitch take my name.

The new UP is here.

 

[Poetry Lover]

unregistered/new UP/whoever

Flirting is your inspiration? That's rich! I will be more positve next time and pat you guys on the back.

Obviously, sarcasm is lost on you.

 

[Poetry Lover]

Okay, so you're registered as UnmaskedPoet. So what are you going to do? Hang around here and make witless comments? What's the point?

 

[UnmaskedPoet]

ahh shucks, I hope your poetry is better than your sarcasm.

I'm here to take you up on your suggestion. I'm gonna make it better.

The artist formerly known as "Poetry Lover" now known as "the new UP"

 

[Poetry Lover]

If you're here to participate, then fine. Try out some of the challenges on the board. Talk to the poets. If you want to make things better, then contribute. We love new ideas here. Just don't say we suck... unless you caught one of us in the act.

Seriously now, please post a poem. I want to see what you've got!

 

[JUDO]

Notice

Gee, our very own troll thread. Another first.


- Judo

 

[daughter]

nobody's indispensable

Poetry Lover/New UP--

Being a leader sucks. Few want the job. The idealistic are stupid enough to take it. The same people that applaud you will alternately cuss you out for what you do and don't do. Your character is attacked constantly and everytime you look up somebody's complaining.

A guy came in here months ago and told me "Relax, nobody's indispensable." He's right.

You've had a good laugh. And you're a hypocrite. You aren't any better than those you're critisizing. You're ridiculing others and bragging that writers are better than poets. Makes you another garden variety, arrogant son of a bitch-a cowardly one. Hiding behind Poetry Lover/New UP is the lamest offense of all.


Peace,

daughter

 

[Poetry Lover]

daughter

The guest that called himself Poetry Lover came back registered as UnmaskedPoet (isn't that original). The registered Poetry lover is someone else. Someone that does not have the same views.
I know, confusing.

Poetry Lover

 

[twelveoone]

I was just making an observation. I didn't miss it, it was dude. I was just commenting your board has died.

Flirting is your inspiration? That's rich! I will be more positve next time and pat you guys on the back. I don't know but here's a suggestion post some poems

The new UP

From the first page~ange

 

[DeepAsleep]

OoooOOoOOoOoooo.......Another fucking asshat.

Lawdy, Lawdy, de propitty valyuhs be droppin'!

~R
Nitwittery is key.

 

[Angeline]

Like a writer
Cycles permit only
Flow diminished or
Effulgence

Valves twisted
Hairs allowing
Nipples that some
Adore endlessly

cheerfully soaked pussies

Cycles
Precede cycles

And maybe it's time for the wheel to turn again, my darling Douglas.

 

[Tathagata]

From the first page~ange

so things move in cycles and someones always disgruntled?

radical dude

 

[Poetry Lover]

You guys dug up a old one.

 

[Angeline]

From the first page~ange

Well good on you. You found an example--and I know you can find a few others--of in-fighting among the people I mentioned. Difference is that it was nowhere as prolonged or personally vituperative as it has been here over the past year. Nor was there an ongoing subtext--as there is now--that there's a single right way to write poems or to critique them.

And I knew YDD, too. She commented on most of the poems I submitted and she was honest, yes, but not unkind. Mainly she was good people. You think she'd want to be the memorial figurehead of ongoing dissention that distracts people from writing and learning? I think not. I think she'd probably want people to educate themselves, sure, but mainly just write. Do you disagree that the best way to learn is to invest time in writing as opposed to arguing?

I don't think people need to be handled with kid gloves, but I don't see what purpose is served by beating up on those who disagree with the way you've decided to interpret the word according to Saint YDD.

I was here then and I am now. "Shamalot" is unfair and a disservice to some wonderful people who aren't here to defend themselves. I see a big difference from then. You can agree or not--I didn't expect you to, but it seems to me that a poetry forum that invests most of its energy in fighting over everything under the sun is not a particularly effective one--not for encouraging poetry.

 

[annaswirls]

what on earth started this up again!

 

[Tathagata]

what on earth started this up again!

guess.......

 

[annaswirls]

guess.......

someone needs a spanking
and that is all I am going to say.

putting this thread on ignore