by codeblue 50 Replies latest jw friends
I have been thinking about that lately. The last thread I started, William Penwell wrote an excellent poem, which I enjoyed tremendously.
I have been writing poetry since I was 8 years old....I also write songs.
So how many of you are poets/and or song writers? Have any of you published your works and if so....any help on finding a publisher?
Codeblue
I write poetry too since I was 8. Don't share it much. It's a way to relieve stress.
Blondie
I have been writing poetry as a way tp process my abuse.
I have one e-book which I had for sale at boklocker.com. I am now looking for a publisher - well if I can get the courage to send it off
The elephant is a bonny bird
It flits from bough to bough
It makes it's nest in a rhubarb tree
And whistles like a cow.
Englishman.
There once was a lady named Codeblue
Who's prophecies would always hold true.
She fortold there'd be posts
And of course there were hosts.
So now she can say that she told you.
Englishman: You are a qualified poet!!!
I also write poetry to release stress or to express emotion....
During my senior year of high school, a lot of my poetry was put into the school's yearbook. I also wrote our "class song" and sang it at my graduation, playing guitar too!!!
Codeblue
I thought I did well in this one
Ex Witness Lament
I look upon my life today
And wish that I had known
There was an easier way
For my children ,I could have shown.
Instead of hours of rushing out
To meeting's"Door & Halls"
To Distant Towns & Cities too!
Waiting for advice from the Watchtower crew.
There was just ONE who's voice to hear
Who said "Be still my friend
My yoke is light -Your in my sight
No need to rush around each night,
In freezing rain,in sleet-in heat,
Expressing you have "comely feet"
Many of you work in pain,a need,
THEY say,your life to gain."
He paid the price for you & I
Why listen to that other lie!?
So lift that Yoke,put on the cloak
Salvation's His to give,
Let's watch our day- Keeping HIS way,
HIS LIGHT will shine our path alway!!!! ( My apoligy to all you unbelievers!!!!)
( Englishman--sorry about the spelling & puntuation marks..... I tried!!!!!!
Here's a poem I wrote for my girlfriend on Valentine's day:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Take off your pants.
But on the serious side, I've been writing songs since I could make noise. When I was 5, my dad bought me a mickey mouse guitar, and I wrote my first song on that. The lyrics are, uh, unintelligible, but it was a start.
I'll soon be putting up a website with some of my musical accomplishments.
I write some beautiful stuff. Here are a couple of mine:
I am like a well.
I am deep.
And, I have a bucket.
And a dead mouse, floating upside down.
And some moss around the sides.
I am like a map.
I like to tell people where to go.
I can only be folded in one direction.
And, I am getting blue lines all over me.
And, yet one more:
I am like a pizza.
I am hot.
And made of meat.
I am filled with red liquid.
and kind of soft and doughy in the center.
I'm thinking of putting out a calender. Sort of a motivational type of thing.
I'm taking a poetry workshop right now, there are only six of us, it's incredible how much you can get to know others in such a short period of time when you're scribbling your heart onto pieces of paper.
I will also be taking creative writing and a poetry class during the next couple of semesters at one of the universities here in the city.
