AlexanderCrane

Nice smileys!

Hey everybody.

Banzai

Hey there Alexander, welcome to the forums. I hope you enjoy the company, and the smileys, and that we can help you with any writing-related problems you need. Take a look around and see what you think of the place. If you need help with anything, please don't hesitate to ask; I'm always happy to lend a hand.

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"Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you"
-"The Wasteland" by T.S. Elliot

AlexanderCrane

I'm certainly trying to find some people who have a lot of experience in the writer's market, specifically poetry. That and some good conversation.

Banzai

Well, conversation I'm good for. Poetry, not so much.

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"Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you"
-"The Wasteland" by T.S. Elliot

AlexanderCrane

Is anyone here published?

Banzai

There are quite a lot of published authors here, actually. I can't tell you who, off the top of my head, but there is a rather large percentage. Unfortunately I am not one yet, but time will perhaps change that.

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"Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you"
-"The Wasteland" by T.S. Elliot

AlexanderCrane

I'm sure it will.

What do you like to write?

Banzai

Myself, I started off writing fantasy, but have taken other genres into my writing as my reading has expanded. I try to include elements of different genres in my writing, so that it's hard to classify under a single category. I'm quite fond of putting things (character traits, plot twists, settings) that are a bit strange, and perhaps even slightly discomforting. Certainly I like to make a reader sit up and think. I tend to mostly write prose, but I have been known to do poetry (rather badly) from time to time.


What about yourself?

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"Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you"
-"The Wasteland" by T.S. Elliot

AlexanderCrane

I have a poem that got a reaction similar to what you describe about your work. A bit discomforting at first.

a material world-


there is a little girl's head barely visible

the source of light is unknown

the shadow, pervasive


with short black locks she looks down

engaged in some activity

working hard to find some 'thing'


as her metal body comes into view

massive adamantine shoulder joints

revolve in a mechanical urgency


skinny pipe arms work fiercely

jerking and tarring at something laying lifeless

in the body’s iron cradle


it is a dead girl’s headless body

bloody and turned open, emptied

it has been searched, nothing was found


the metallic body is frantic

it sifts through the organs yet again

no thing is found


the little girl’s head looks with a machine heart

but no matter where she looks

she can’t find god