Poets are vampires...
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Reminded me of this:
"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.
"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.
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ah yes. the poetic fest...you wrote, I wrote. I wrote, you responded, you wrote, I responded...lovely example.
and that's the reason Wild White is my favorite...
I agree. William did it to me today. Damn cannibal-vampire. I think he's forcing me to turn my back on writing for a while. Thank goodness this comes on the heels of a big editing job I'll start next week.... that's not writing, right?KTC said:
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I think of vampires as destroying other lives to perpetuate their own, but never really being alive themselves. That sure isn't what I signed up for!
I don't have another metaphor to propose, though.
[ETA: I didn't read Trish's posts properly. She said it.]
I don't have another metaphor to propose, though.
[ETA: I didn't read Trish's posts properly. She said it.]
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Stew21 said:if I suck the blood from another poet, I try to make sure they are still living when I'm done.
Volunteering to write poetry with Trish!
I think all writers are vampires, to a degree. We feed off our own experiences and other people's. I wonder if it's a psychological survival mechanism. Even during the most intense times of my life (good and bad, but particularly bad), I've been aware of a sort of recording device clocking it all, turning it into lines or scenes or dialogue. Not necessarily good dialogue, of course. But it seems to be my mind's automatic reaction - maybe a way of getting distance from the experience. Whether or not this is a good thing, I'm not sure.
I actually sort of wrote a story about this, which if the current publisher ever manages to get the financing, will appear, one day. And thus fed with fresh public notice, I will rise from the cold earth, and wreak my dreadful will...hahahahha! Ahem. Sorry. (swirls cloak in embarrassed manner and retreats to tomb, vowing never again to post when loaded up with cold medication...)
I actually sort of wrote a story about this, which if the current publisher ever manages to get the financing, will appear, one day. And thus fed with fresh public notice, I will rise from the cold earth, and wreak my dreadful will...hahahahha! Ahem. Sorry. (swirls cloak in embarrassed manner and retreats to tomb, vowing never again to post when loaded up with cold medication...)
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Deleting my original post, as it did not fit with the lite intent of this thread.
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yes, Kevin, I imagine the metaphor a "feeding" from a mind into one's own.
I know I feed off of the words of others. I often describe it as eating the words...plate full of images and ideas someone else served me.
I know I feed off of the words of others. I often describe it as eating the words...plate full of images and ideas someone else served me.
Ah, well then
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Sorry about that. No one has yet accused me of being overly clever. I just took your words at face value, figuring you either believed it or playing devil's advocate.KTC said:
I can't imagine that.
Nope, I can't get my mind around that either.
I guess I missed the memo about this.
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Poets are keen observers, not parasites. If any poet resorts to vampirism, it's only because he's hungry and his McD's dropped its dollar menu.
I don't think writers are vampires, this denotes that we are dormant for half the day and sleep in coffins. I think we are more like parasites, maybe two foot long tape worms, we feed all the time and grow stronger....urrrgh. Yet, there are writers who are out there who do know how to keep others down, I call this the whack a mole theory (the game as you know is that anytime a mole pops up on the machine, you whack it). So, some writers who are threatened, whack down other writers by undermining them - I met a quite famous UK writer once who was kind enough to look at my work, they took a red pen to it and after cutting voraciously, declared, "Now, that's how I'd do this book", to which I replied, "But I'm not you". WHACK A MOLE TIME. It's a historical allegory too.
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