Re: Difference between performance and written poetry
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:30 am
G'day all,
With my poetry - I try to take all comments as positive. I am either thick skinned or just thick, as I can't recall any negative comments made directly to me about my writing. Those who know more about writing than I do, and have offered their assistance have been most generous and helpful to me. I know I still have a long way to go til I am writing as well as I would like to. I won't name names, but there are a couple of people who have been so supportive of me, in both the writing and performing areas, that I would not have even started being involved in poetry without them.
I own them a lifelong debt. - Poetry has become so much a part of my life that I don't know how I would have survived retirement without it. I guess I would have found something else to do, but nothing else could have been so fulfilling.
So now, I must prove myself worthy of their support and go write something. It may be a 'throw away', it may be 'competition material' or it may end up being a performance piece - but regardless, it will be the best I can do today.
With my poetry - I try to take all comments as positive. I am either thick skinned or just thick, as I can't recall any negative comments made directly to me about my writing. Those who know more about writing than I do, and have offered their assistance have been most generous and helpful to me. I know I still have a long way to go til I am writing as well as I would like to. I won't name names, but there are a couple of people who have been so supportive of me, in both the writing and performing areas, that I would not have even started being involved in poetry without them.
I own them a lifelong debt. - Poetry has become so much a part of my life that I don't know how I would have survived retirement without it. I guess I would have found something else to do, but nothing else could have been so fulfilling.
So now, I must prove myself worthy of their support and go write something. It may be a 'throw away', it may be 'competition material' or it may end up being a performance piece - but regardless, it will be the best I can do today.