Friends only

[melange_fiesta]

Once upon a time I said this journal was going to be a public journal, and once upon a time that was true. But, well... little by little, this journal has turned into mostly Friends-only. Therefore, if you want to add me and see something other than my sporadic public entries, please feel free to do so and comment when you have. If I like you I'll

Comments

[tm_gemini]

(Except prisms, colloquialisms, or other isms like that. :D)

Oh, Carolyn... ^___^

[melange_fiesta]

*giggles*

You know, that's suddenly striking me as a very Mr. Head thing to have said... O.o.

[tm_gemini]

Lol.

[charlotte001]

Comment. I need to be able to read other's journals as well.

[melange_fiesta]

I added you back. I will apologize right now for the large number of surveys I have for my more recent entries :S.

[dancing_shadow]

You said you loved me (on abtractthought)so I thought I'd add you... I promise that I am a -ism free person...

[melange_fiesta]

You're added! :)

[melange_fiesta]

You are friended. :)

hey

[amberleecarter]

hey

Re: hey

[melange_fiesta]

We used to give very detailed critiques of applicants' poems, but found that being required to give such critiques detracted from our critiques of the accepted members' pieces. We eventually decided that it was not absolutely required to give a reason, so that applicants would still get voted on but the actual group members would get the critique they truly deserved on their poems for having made the group.

As well, I do not use this journal to post my poetry. In fact, I post very little of my poetry on any public forum. It's not really a *bad* thing to do that... I just don't do it myself.

Re: hey

[amberleecarter]

Already...well, I just thought sense the common suggestion was " you need to read more" the poetical gods would know what one should be reading..But since most have their journals on friends only, I can only assume they meant someone other than themselves.

Why do they do that? If you don't mind my asking..
I think if they are going to slef-proclaim themselves judges of poetry, they should write by such standards and thus be a guide by which to learn...
But that's just me, and what do I know?
I'm going to end up with a " you are not a poet" award...lol

Take care and be well.

Always,
Amberlee

Re: hey

[melange_fiesta]

Whatever poetry we want to post we will post. We *have* to post at least three poems to get in, so basically everybody in the comm needs to know what they're doing.

When we say "read more poetry" we usually mean the excellent published poets out there. I suppose our own could be read for pointers at times, but we too are not perfect and always striving to improve, and for that we go to the work of the greats.