posted August 26, 2015 09:16 AM            

I find your pieces very touching, and recently in a melancholy way. I love experiencing every spectrum of emotion, so please understand I am not asking you to stop, or to change.

I'm just asking, if you're okay. =)

posted August 27, 2015 12:28 PM            

Thanks for your response. I find optimism is a two way street, and it's okay not be optimistic at times, in fact it's darn right healthy to mull over a situation and dissect both the positive and negative aspects. I wouldn't think of it as 'rambling woes' I would think of it as being more on the lines of working through- overcoming and little by little disassembling those hindering-bothersome walls. Toward that 'higher dimension' as you mentioned or feeling situated contently in a good place. Took me forever, or what seemed like forever, to finally have that coursing through my life regularly, along with the tribulations which still come and go, naturally. Writing has been a great benefactor- Past, present, and future and I hope it is for you too.

The downside or the other side of the street with happy go lucky optimism for me...the reading world or as I see it, is backwards!

When the internet was fairly new to me, I had started my first blog. It was some poetry, personal happenings, journaling..etc. Being how I am- I would test a little bit, out of curiosity and to also gain a sense of exactly what/who was out there in the vast blankness. When things were good and or positive- I would write as such each day..I would have my usual visitors, close friends, my mom, a few acquaintances I had a met over the wires. However; as life does, when an occasional curve ball would come my way, something problematic for instance- my tongue (writing) would get sharper, undeniably bitter, with the atmosphere more situational driven and destitute collapsing around me. My! I would have aunt so and so, a long lost cousin, various strangers, distant friends I hadn't talked to in years..sniffing around. I swear some live for and can pick up a scent of drama a mile away. It was my own preference thereafter not to waste my creative writing in return for chaos and for their entertainment purposes. It was more important for me to stay true to myself, than having numbers. That experience of course had to do with creative-freely writing/blogging.

Poetry is another medium all together. One in which is a beautiful source for clearing the system..saying as little or as much as one desires. I have many sad poems...dark and chilly- tucked away, written previously. I'm glad they make up the body of my work too, they have their place, as do those deeply personal emotions. For me it's a strong reminder to appreciate when things are on the upswing and going well.

As for you, I can definitely think of something you could feel optimistic about. You have a wonderful poetry gift. Your writing is eloquent, poised, soft, and real.
and we are all the better for having you share here as you do. Sometimes we don't realize just how much we learn from the tender and vulnerable side of human nature via another's poetry..

posted August 27, 2015 05:39 PM            

omygodifeelahugcomingonAyelettttt!!!ahhhhhhhh

posted August 28, 2015 10:21 AM            

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Originally posted by Ayelet:
Thank you so much, Pearlty, for the warm words...
Yes, I can understand how writing about the negativity outside poetry (or prose or any other close medium) can simply create drama and entertainment, and I naturally back off from such performance.
Did you ever publish your sad poems, or are they "tucked away", as you said, for good?

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No fair Mirage, if there are hugs being given out..I want in on it too! (( ))

Ayelet,
In answer to your question, yes quite a few have been published. As our more desolate moments are a part of life as well.

posted August 28, 2015 12:28 PM            

And speaking of the things of writing negative material, In my experience I can't help it, more or less because it's the only way I can express what I have inside of me, and most of my life I only wrote negative things, because I was a very depressive kid, pessimistic and stuff. Only these past two years I started to write more positive things for having more life experiences and learning to enjoy myself and people more. But I still am kinda pessimistic, hahaha.

It's impossible to keep repressed what's inside, it'll kill you, you don't need to post those dark emotions transformed in verses if you don't want to, but you should never question the utility of writing in the darkest time, without that I would be dead or insane.

Keep up going.

Cheers.

posted August 28, 2015 08:18 PM            

Thank you, LF DX. I'm glad things have developed for the better for you.I agree repression is the wrong strategy. I guess after you let the negativity an expression, positivity will naturally find itself under the spotlight.

Mirage, I felt your poem as one block of negation hovering over a prayer...
Someday, walls may testify... a lot. It is said everything being said or done is kept in universal memory for good, and the walls can naturally catch echoes and shadows...

posted August 30, 2015 10:46 AM            

"Pearlty, I'm glad that I've seen the positivity coming out from you. I think it's more of a challenge to write a happy poem, but if that is not a challenge with you - the better"

I try to make it a habit, to see something beautiful about each day..

posted September 01, 2015 05:02 PM            

Did somebody say Habit??