Variety is the Spice of Life

I just posted a couple brokenhearted/sadness pieces. And I think that venting through poetry is a really good way to make yourself feel better.
But it's true, I do agree with you about how there is a lot of the same topic. Most of it is fabulous writing. Yet...
Anyways, that's *my* (very confused, jumbled) opinion on the subject.
-icuc
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
-Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh

yes, venting through poetry is great and I don't have anything against broken hearted pieces, I write them too, but I just want to see some new things written.
~Drummergirl

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

I completely agree.

I generally try pretty hard to avoid the whole "teen angst" deal myself.

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The world doesn't speak to me like my own brain.

Yes, hundreds of blog entries of it does get pretty boring...
~Drummergirl

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

You must note that there are pieces that are not of that variety, most of which are quite good because they aren't written by some random person that doesn't know what they're doing. You just have to look for the pieces like that. Trust me, if you really want to find them, you will.

I do see that, but the sheer volume of love poems written every week is astounding.
~Drummergirl

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

It's one of the number one topics that...
beginning
writers... erm... write about.

Of course I know that I've been
guilty
of doing the same, but...

Lots of... pieces are written.
You have to sort of...
sift through them if you want to
find what you're looking for.

Ah yes, I am guilty also. However, I agree. The more experienced writers do tend to write about a larger variety of topics. Do you recommend any writers in particular? Besides oldies like you, I mean.
~Drummergirl

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." (Juan Ramon Jimenez)

Thank you for pointing this out. i feel like everytime i sign on there is another depressed heartbreak poem and many of them are very similar. i understand that people need to vent but this site is for writing of all kinds, not just diaries of everyone's love lives. i'm glad you brought this up.

... if I can be so rude as to butt in on this conversation... might be to write about ONE thing that was funny or interesting or memorable about your day. Something you thought, did, experienced that was NOT sad, lonely, morose or angsty....And choose a perspective of looking OUT at the world. One of the more interesting blogs in this regard was Zoe Senecal's People Watching blog. Some others are in the Writers to Read section, including Rebecca V's blog, Parisian Twist, ... well actually all of them have a lot of variety to their writing.

Another idea is to do some writing in narrative prose ... poetry, by its nature, seems to make most folks look inward.

cheers

gg

And yet, it doesn't even have to be funny things or happy things. Simple things, seemingly pointless things, make for interesting pieces as well.

I will check out the blogs you suggested, they sound intriguing, thank you.
~Drummergirl

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." (Juan Ramon Jimenez)