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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Am I a Poet?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dunno about you (that’s why<br>I’m writing this poem) but<br>it’s the noun thing, ‘poet’: as if<br>you’re simultaneously committing yourself<br>for life to something – although<br>you would love to do it for life, <br>it’s somehow got <br>public connotations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A good place to test the word<br>is a party – if you make some pleasantry<br>and the lady’s eyes brighten and she says<br>‘That’s very poetic..’ you’d be mad<br>not to continue the conversation…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So ‘poetic’ is OK, . It’s<br>non-theatening, <br>environmentally friendly, <br>warm-hearted; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">however ‘I write poetry’ –<br>is risky. Men feel challenged; <br>they know they wouldn’t read your book<br>even if you gave it to them, signed; so<br>they respond in career-advice mode<br>with ‘and do you make any money<br>by it? ’ or even a straight<br>‘are you any good? ’ or<br>simply assume you’re out of work<br>and unemployable; whatever, <br>they’ll do that English thing<br>of looking carefully at your clothes..<br>and go into their practiced<br>about-to-move-away mode</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Women however are different: especially<br>if you risk the full-on ‘I’m a poet…’<br>they’ll do an instant calculation –<br>he’s discreetly promiscuous, that means<br>safe, so do I fancy him? Probably out of work, but hey<br>that’s always useful in an afternoon lover…<br>However for them, at a party<br>it promises a more interesting conversation<br>than ‘I’m a merchant banker, not<br>very interesting I’m afraid ha ha’<br>so at least they ask questions<br>and you may well bring them around</div><div style="margin:10px 0">though ladies in rather look-at-me attire<br>who instantly respond ‘Yes, <br>so am I! ! ’ with enthusiasm are to be very carefully<br>summed up before you risk this claim<br>of poet; it can be like<br>being smothered by<br>an emotional jellyfish; <br>better just say ‘I write poetry’, <br>it’s less committing; you can always<br>retreat from the claim as if<br>it was a passing phase when younger</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but if the lady, or the gentleman, <br>replies with a twinkle in their eye, <br>Yes, so do I, but<br>I don’t tell anyone …! ’ a merry<br>conversation should ensue…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m currently using ‘I write poetry<br>on the internet…’ which is<br>non-threatening, almost interesting, <br>and doesn’t involve <br>any commitment on their part<br>to buy your book or anything</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My recommendation is, <br>try these phrases out at home, <br>with a mirror, preferably full-length<br>(body-language can be so revealing) <br>and see which makes you cringe<br>or even fills you with inspiring confident pride</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However all this may be<br>a generation thing; ‘lyric-writers’ for popnrock<br>must have all this sussed, <br>beating off the offers<br>of one sort or another.<br>He said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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