<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438167" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It, Is...Not!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not surprised when I hear, <br>That many readers do not write.<br>Nor am I shocked, <br>To learn those who write...<br>Do that day and night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who make requests, <br>For other writers to read their 'stuff'...<br>Seek approval and acceptance.<br>But when does that get to become too much? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've said this so many times and I'll say it again, <br>When one creates from their own inspiration...<br>A commitment to just 'that', <br>Provides a lifelong motivation and a loyalty unmatched.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When one writer becomes offended, <br>By another who is experienced.<br>Has not yet comprehended the time involved, <br>To produce from one's mind...<br>That another perceives is easily invented.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It, <br>Is...<br>Not! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I ever got a letter, <br>From Maya, Edgar or Langston Hughes...<br>I'd be shocked by that! <br>Believing they would have nothing else to do, <br>But read Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Emily Dickenson.<br>And...<br>Well, <br>My work too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It, <br>Is...<br>Not easy.<br>This writing business.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Especially when one seeks, <br>To be critiqued.<br>And upon request.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438167" data-title="It, Is...Not! de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I am not surprised when I hear, That many readers do not write. Nor am I shocked, To learn those who write... Do that day and night. Those who make requests, For other writers to read their 'stuff'... Seek approval and acceptance. But when doe..."></div> </div> </div>

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