Sunday, April 27, 2014

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......Hey...are you there? You? I am talking to you (Hmm?)....Yes you...Listen...What do you think you are writing? Can you hear me? You say you have been writing or like you say...composing poetry....Gawd! ....do you know what poetry is all about? I mean it's no child's play...You hear me? (Yes!)....it's a lot of emotions....a lot of things besides...it's a cannon of emotions to be let lose...not some half baked love story you decide to pin to the wall! Wow! Are you listening?....I hope I am not talking to a disconnected being..? (Yes I am here!) Have you read Tennyson and Wordsworth? You have? Can I hear a Yes or a No? (Yes) Did you learn something from them or you just read them for the sake of it....Oh come on..you must be joking..If you have read them, why don't I see you following any one of them....??Or you thought you would create your own style eh?...What style? ..I don't believe this..!! Style? You guys have this amazing fetish about creating your own style. There is a whole big grammar about writing poetry...you just can't afford to get some words together and try to create some coherence ...What the....???I seriously think you are not taking this seriously enough....there are people who are reading your poems, you know or do you think they are invisible....Come on..every letter you write, put in on paper...every word counts...every one thinks on each word you write....they understand whether you are writing relevant or irrelevant words...and most of the time, you are writing incoherent words....I can't hear them...Can you hear what I am  saying or is at asking too much! (Hmmm, yes) Okay, now listen to me..next time I read something from you, I want to hear the words....they shouldn't be some funny, soundless words...read more of the classic poets and start copying their style....You will do that?Will you say something ...? (What about my style?) 
[Toot, Toot, Toot, Toot]
Oh shoot,.....Thank God the phone disconnected. So what do you think Mister? 
I , I am going to copy someone's style from the stone age? I am sorry ! I will never do anything like that ever. I am ME and I am proud and whatever I am supposed to be about my compositions and I am pretty good at feeling good about myself.

Thankyou!