Dick
This forum was based onthe concept that it was a senior forum, not a place for new writers to learn a-b-c's. It is also a literary forum.
There are thousands of 'literary angel' sites out there. If you want to be accessible to them, have at it. When I found the Sphere, it felt great. People who actually knew what they were talking about - not a site for 'Internet' poetry. Ooooh, that's so true!
Actually, Dick, there is accessible poetry out there. It's called music. Heavy emphasis on 'called'.
I live in da street
and I got two feet
my shorty's sweet
and my gun is neat!
So, I should make my poetry accessible by sticking to mono-sy... I mean, words that aren't very long and easy to say. I should forget about everything that makes poetry what it is, just so it can be accessible (I read as 'understandable') so I can market it in the store, which you make the Sphere into.
Not interested. The main goal of a writer is to develop his / her own voice. You'd have every poet change their voice. I'd have every person educate themselves to understand what a voice is - what a poem is - not devolve poetry into something less just to get more people interested in poetry.
I don't write for other people. I write for me. So does every writer, whatever their personal motivations may be.
If a bunch of ignorami want to write crap and call it poetry, because it would attract more people to their Internet site, let them.
Ooops...they already are.
Let's keep this one site above that, please. We don't need another 'accessible' site. There are people who need this one just as it is.
Yes, I'm one of them and I have my own interests at heart. Self-interest is not a bad thing.
[This message has been edited by Jerry Glenn Hartwig (edited March 03, 2005).]
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