Of little signifigance...

[fantacularpansy]

I just realized how small and meaningless my writing is. I have little reach when it comes to poetry, I feel like I actually could reach some cosmically important concept... but no that's too hard... I'll stick with the moon, the rain being born and poetry. I think I'm sick of being so superficial.

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[_irredescent]

So I was just reading about the Romantic period poets and how they considered themselves prophets and truth-speakers, revealers not only of their secret selves but a world unspoken and often unseen by all.

And I feel like no poetry is ever meaningless. Even crappy, angsty teen poetry has meaning.

If it makes you feel better, I write the same things over and over again and everytime I write something "new," I feel like a cheater when someone praises me. I'm full of recycled ideas.

[fantacularpansy]

Sometimes when people say that my idea is original... I want to puch them in the face... and then find some sharp rocks. I feel like a cheater too.
Man... Meaning.... it just... beats me... like and unnesicary excess of exclaimation points.

[_irredescent]

I have proof you and your writing are not meaningless:

The image of you, Wendy, being attacked by an excess of exclaimation points just made my day. Actually, my entire week. Not because I want to see you attacked but the idea is so brilliant that I imagine it will go in the book of Brilliance, which I am writing, even though I am so uncreative that I can't come up with a better title.

[fantacularpansy]

I am glad. No matter how much those excited punctuation makes hurt I'm taking one for the team... actually most you but we could be a team!
Anything to make your day!
PS I would be honored if you named dropped me in the Book of Brilliance.
I'll paste your genius all over my life's work; Magnificence.

[fantacularpansy]

thanks sweetheart.

[zorblek]

Does poetry need to have a deeper meaning beyond being beautiful?

Romanticaly speaking...

[fantacularpansy]

it's about reaching in and tickling/jolting/rattleing (whatever yah like) somebody's soul. Which, unless you come across that rare person who actually enjoys words as much as you do, nessecitates deep and/or genius meaning.

Re: Romanticaly speaking...

[zorblek]

I dunno, sheer beauty can do it, even if someone isn't a wordie.

Re: Romanticaly speaking...

[fantacularpansy]

you should read my newest post. writing that poem shook me from such severe cynicism. I feel clear inside.