I'm a bit bushed.
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Irene
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Re: I'm a bit bushed.
I think we should just get on with writing poetry!!
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Irene
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Re: I'm a bit bushed.
Seriously, I think there is too much discussion on what is bush and what isn't. Does it really matter?
Our audience will either like it, love it, dislike it or hate it!! Let your audience decide whether it is what they want - and so long as what you like to do, and what they like to hear/read matches up - all should be well!! The label is really irrelevant if they like your work!
If you want to win competitions with technically perfect poems, and you do - you are achieving what you set out to do.
If you want to get a laugh down the pub with your humour, and you do - you are achieving what you set out to do.
If you want to write a poem that touches someone, and you do - you are achieving what you set out to do.
If you want to write a poem that will be immortalised in our history, and you do - you are achieving what you set out to do. (mind you, you will be dead before you know that one!! )
This site is dedicated to bush poetry - with the definition of poetry with rhyme and rhythm, about australia or the australian way of life.
To my mind, so long as we write to those guidelines, we are posting in the correct forum.
At the end of the day, getting too tied up with what is right and wrong takes away your creative spark, and the emotion that should be in your work.
Yes, I believe we need to put more 'poetry' into our work, but we also need the emotion. If you are writing a poem just to win a competition, but you don't 'feel' the subject, it is just a collection of words - poetic as they may be.
Competitions who demand that a poem has not been published before no doubt have their reasons for doing so.
If you like to post your poems when you write them, you don't need to enter those competitions.
At the end of the day, if the competitions don't get enough people entering because of the guidelines, perhaps it is time for them to review their guidelines to fit in both with their aims, as well as what works for those they want to have enter their comp. It is a two way street for everyone, and those who organise competitions know that. Has anyone ever said to them that that guideline may be too restrictive? That we feel it may be inhibiting our primary goal of promoting bush poetry? They may never have looked at it from this point of view before.
Again, it depends on what they want, and what we as poets want.
People are getting too scared to do anything in case it is the wrong thing!
In regards to Bill's comments, I tend to agree regarding the threads going off track. Let's keep the poetry sections for poetry, and comments on the poetry, the general section for the idle chit chat/silliness that is very much enjoyed, and this section for threads such as this - but lets make sure the poetry sections get the most work!!
And so endeth my sermon!!
Let's get on with writing poetry, I say!!!
Our audience will either like it, love it, dislike it or hate it!! Let your audience decide whether it is what they want - and so long as what you like to do, and what they like to hear/read matches up - all should be well!! The label is really irrelevant if they like your work!
If you want to win competitions with technically perfect poems, and you do - you are achieving what you set out to do.
If you want to get a laugh down the pub with your humour, and you do - you are achieving what you set out to do.
If you want to write a poem that touches someone, and you do - you are achieving what you set out to do.
If you want to write a poem that will be immortalised in our history, and you do - you are achieving what you set out to do. (mind you, you will be dead before you know that one!!
)This site is dedicated to bush poetry - with the definition of poetry with rhyme and rhythm, about australia or the australian way of life.
To my mind, so long as we write to those guidelines, we are posting in the correct forum.
At the end of the day, getting too tied up with what is right and wrong takes away your creative spark, and the emotion that should be in your work.
Yes, I believe we need to put more 'poetry' into our work, but we also need the emotion. If you are writing a poem just to win a competition, but you don't 'feel' the subject, it is just a collection of words - poetic as they may be.
Competitions who demand that a poem has not been published before no doubt have their reasons for doing so.
If you like to post your poems when you write them, you don't need to enter those competitions.
At the end of the day, if the competitions don't get enough people entering because of the guidelines, perhaps it is time for them to review their guidelines to fit in both with their aims, as well as what works for those they want to have enter their comp. It is a two way street for everyone, and those who organise competitions know that. Has anyone ever said to them that that guideline may be too restrictive? That we feel it may be inhibiting our primary goal of promoting bush poetry? They may never have looked at it from this point of view before.
Again, it depends on what they want, and what we as poets want.
People are getting too scared to do anything in case it is the wrong thing!
In regards to Bill's comments, I tend to agree regarding the threads going off track. Let's keep the poetry sections for poetry, and comments on the poetry, the general section for the idle chit chat/silliness that is very much enjoyed, and this section for threads such as this - but lets make sure the poetry sections get the most work!!
And so endeth my sermon!!
Let's get on with writing poetry, I say!!!
What goes around, comes around.