Sweettouch's profile

Just a few words to all that review my work – IF YOU ARE GOING TO GO ON AND ON about PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION then do not bother to read. I am a firm believer in the use of line length and form, and find the conventional use of p&c distasteful and distracting. Please do a web search on Poetry and line lengths – poetry and punctuation, and broaden your horizons. In prose and other writing such conventions are needed. In Poetry it is not! I am published I have graduated from college as an English major and I still find poetry that has to rely on punctuation to make a point sad. It is my opinion and the opinion of many other poets the world over. So do not waste my points on a review that centers on this complaint. If you still wish t…

Just a few words to all that review my work – IF YOU ARE GOING TO GO ON AND ON about PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION then do not bother to read. I am a firm believer in the use of line length and form, and find the conventional use of p&c distasteful and distracting. Please do a web search on Poetry and line lengths – poetry and punctuation, and broaden your horizons. In prose and other writing such conventions are needed. In Poetry it is not! I am published I have graduated from college as an English major and I still find poetry that has to rely on punctuation to make a point sad. It is my opinion and the opinion of many other poets the world over. So do not waste my points on a review that centers on this complaint. If you still wish to lodge such a complaint consult the works of the great American Poet ee cummings and when he changes his poetry I will change mine. LOL

I am a female that has been writing poetry and lyrics since I was 14. In college several of my poems were chosen for 3 consecutive years for the campus poetry magazine. I have since been in attendance regulary at poetry conventions and readings throughout the midwest. I have 8 published poems which appear on here and am in the process of putting together a book utilizing what I hope to be the best of my 500 poems in three different categories, Nature, Erotica, and Inner Man. For years I had given up on sharing much of what I have written as I was just too busy to work on any of it.Now I am cleaning out the notebooks, rewriting and getting back to the words I love. I have three grown boys or grown if you consider 18 to 22 grown. Sometimes I wonder about what that little word “grown really means. the following is a writing but not really a poem so I am adding it here so you can get a feel for who I am.

On Writing

I do not know why poets write on writing,
or why sometimes we feel the need to tell the world why we do it.
Sometimes,
I think we just need to say what we feel,
and other times we need that validation that others feel the same way.
For me it is all about what I enjoy – the words, the flow, the beauty, or the just plain ugliness I can make of it.
Sometimes it is just because I feel.
The next several things I add here are separate writings on the subject, all written at different times.
Some good, some bad, some plain, some opinionated, and some rhyme.
If you write,
if you feel the power of the written word,
if you live life and see it just a little differently from the next guy,
You will probably understand my simple, humble lines.
Like all poets, I love response and sometimes that is the very thing that spurs me to my next affair with the pen and page.

Melissa