blessed_be_the_lie Ambience Rest inside your hollow truths, so cleverly belittled. Haunt me in my restless thoughts. Hypocrisy ringing in your every word, -off the depths of your hollow tongue. Radiate your empty soul and taunt all those who actualy feel. Silly little enigma, this front you show us all. But rest easily, or so you try, in your transparent disguise, -tangled in all your contradictions. 030702 ... x I shit my pants with laughter. 030702 ... Le Sporque yeah, well, i_shit_my_pants_with_love 030702 ... osama bin Spork All thanks be to god and paste! for the great blathe. 030702 ... Ambience Well I hope you can get the stain out. 030703 ... oldephebe frankly i don't get the great spumes of 'say - I don't like certain types of poetry blah blah' that inaugural salvo that started the whole - you must be kidding me - interminable ah rejoinder - riposte bring 'em if you've got 'em - wordfest - ambience you've got some pure and sincere things to say ... Be the f**ing irrevocable center of your universe - 030705 ... oldephebe wait ... what i meant to refer to was the whole you_have_got_to_be_kidding_me - great spurting geyser of venom and Reason - my god aren't we destitute when we let the venom spurt and leap from us so easily - we're nothing in that moment - narrow breadths of heart - we are destitute in that moment - a pure song - a pure heart - unblunted by bruising winds - untaught to censure - hey ambience imbue your seed with fire -bring it up boldy from the bottom - i realize the temporal ah continuity of these posts may be months or weeks or some unit of time out of sync with whever you first posted this but i just got to blather and so i've got some catching up to do - 030705 ... niska yeah. that's great - if you have things to say, say 'em. so, by that token, if you don't like certain types of anything, you can say just that. i don't think there's anything wrong with 'you've got to be kidding me' because the person who started that just has different tastes. what's wrong with that? just beacuse you put a poem here: A) doesn't mean it's prolific in any way and B) doesn't make anyone else responsible for validating your artistic expression. i think it's nice that a lot of you express yourselves with poetry, be it song lyrics, rhymes, or delusional ramblings filled with arcane references to things no one here would ever be able to identify with because they are not you. it's also nice that you find fans of your work among the population, but when you put something on a public forum, you allow an opportunity for others to offer feedback. don't be all saddened, or offended. a lot of people criticize art every day. do any of you like every single damn film you've ever seen? or sing a long to every song on the radio? no. and if you do, well lucky fucking you for being the best cheerleader this world ever had. you decide if you like it, and you be proud of yourself for putting it here. if someone says they don't like it, WELCOME TO LIFE. 030711 ... niska also, oldephebe, i like some of your writing because it makes me feel. i like reading it. and some of it i don't bother to read, beacuse it doens't. it has no bearing on you as a person, or the quality of your writing, whether it's liked or not. as long as you're happy with what you're doing, that's all that ever matters. 030711 ... oldephebe hmmm i don't know quite how o feel about what i just read what i won't argue against is that it was an honest assertion - as far as the arcane stuff and the ecletic exasperatingly sometimes tedius nature of some of my diressions true that blame it on not enough oxygen to the brain and probably on the fact that the only time i probably write with clarity and cogency is when the engine of emotion fuels it and oh also that some of the legal writing of done in the past has seeped in and oh also the disparate knowledge bases involved disparate does not equal arcane disparate does not equal unequal it only mens different so i gotta accept some of your argument- and ah if you read my responses to the f e w slaps across my beveled back (oops another indicia of the conveluted and ah arcane) - and the overt alliteration could be a fetish or exhibitionistic thing or maybe i'm just kind of an anal word nerd but anywho back to the Land of the linear thread resumed (if it can be wrested from the murky concavity of incomprehension) relentless inner critic: Not a chance oldephebe: so if you read my responses to these slap on the backs i kind of go out my way to say not really looking to be validated or praised just trying to add my torrent of talk to these streams i won't argue against the sincerity of your argument but i do disagree with several points you (not you niska) can debate or disagree without being overtly injurious as someone else said some of us don't kow the savagery of our own tongues - nor do we care how the other will take it - now my skin is pretty thick but hey some people are made differently i don't think venomous or malice drenched wordfists are warranted really unless of course the writer deserves it because they point the blade at your heart - I've mellowed with age and under compassions tutledge so there are probably chasms between us I will be for me You be for you and maybe you'll think about my meager words - maybe not agree but give them a little thought oh and i'm glad you like some of my oh so incendiary ramblings - i don't expect many folks to get them - not because i'm speaking some deep timeless truth gleaned atop (hmm nothing but cliched metaphores about mountain tops come to mind) oh! okay not because i've gleaned some heretofore unknowable thing upon the crest of a cloud but because i've had different experiences and i'm constituted differently than come so it's cool Be well niska 030712 ... oldephebe then come should be than some i constituted differently than some relentless inner critic: it's about time you corrected that Oldephebe: yeah 030713 ... oldephebe enough enough of me speaking out of emptiness fill me up fill me up with Your light 030722 what's it to you? 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