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Poetry
I write poems about a lot of thoughts that go on in my head. I want to share them with my friends, but I know if they don't appreciate them I will feel horrible. Once my friend found my journal filled with poems and she was just like, "Hmm. Do these all mean something to you?" and she just gave the idea of my poems were crap, which I know they aren't. I guess what I am asking is what should I say to my friends to make them understand how important these are to me?
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I write poetry and for the longest time I was sooo afraid of what others would think of things that I write. Then this summer at our local fair they had what you call a poetry slam, which is where you get up and read three poems that are of your own writing and you get judged on them. I was so scared because this is what I'm writing and i was going to let others into knowing how I felt. Most of my work however comes from relationship issues and how i deal with that, depending on what inspires you though maybe different. But the thought is that i'm really happy that i did do that and I began to share what I write with others. I think that your friends should be able to understand this is something important to you and if they can't oh well, then find others that can. But hey if you want to email me and i'd share with you some of my poetry.
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well i keep my poetry life pretty much secret because i love writing poems too but if one of my friends would ask me about them and tell me it was dumb i would just say its my way of letting out my anger or sadness and to get through things like a broken heart and stuff so just stay out of it unless you can appriciate it...just say something like that
Good Luck! Hope I Helped!=)
- Samantha Lynn
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say to them that they are coming from the heart and you love the poems you write and it means so much to you
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i know how you feel. i write poems a lot. it is a good way to express your feelings. if your friends dont understand how important this is to you, are you sure that you should be friends? try talking to them through example. like if one friend likes art say "these poems are as important to me as your art is for you"
maybe being professionally recognized for your work will help them understand. go to www.poetry.com, if you submit poems, chances are that it will get published in this $50 book, then the people from poetry.com invite you to all these poetry conventions all over the country, to be recognized for your work. i got my poem published but i never went to the conventions. maybe just saying that you got invited to these conventions will impress your friends. but dont try to brag.
sorry if this is a little confusing...
hope i helped...hersheylover...
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If your friend don't appriciate the things that you like to do then they aren't really your friends. We know that sounds a little harsh but if they were your reall friends they wouldn't be dogging what you like to do.
Doodlebug& moviestarz
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I have the same problems with my friends! I love acting and writing (songs, poems, stories, etc.) Some of my friends say stuff like that to me and it really hurts. My friends that are like that are the friends I don't show my work to. When they say something that hurts me I just say something like: "You might think it's stupid but it's important to me" then I change the subject. Some people don't understand the value of art. You have to figure out which friends truly understand you, understand your work, and think it's cool. It doesn't mean that you have to stop hanging out with your friends who "don't get it." When you hang out with those friends just watch TV, shop, go online, talk, or do anything else that they like to do. The way you'll have the most fun is to save your important work for the people that it's important to.
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Just explain to them that they mean something to you. That maybe they aren't Emily Dickinson or anything amazing like that, but they're something you really cherish. Don't let your friends get in the way of your writing. And if they still don't understand, then don't show them. Find a website online where people post poems and give each other feedback. I've done that with all of my poems. It's nice to hear what strangers have to say about my poems, without actually knowing who they're written about. Or if I say something depressing in a poem, the people online won't worry "OMG are you okay?". I'm sure there are plenty of communities out there like that, where you can get feedback on your work.
I don't show any one my poems, unless they're online people I'll never meet. Just because it's personal stuff, and I don't want people reading my thoughts :)
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I know expressing your poetry to your friends will be hard an easy way to do it is write a poem that you think they would be interested in think about a topic that your friends would probabley feel the same way about then write about it tell them and if it's good they'll be into it do that a few times then tell them a poem thats about you they probabley would be cool with it because they would have already appreciated your writing abilities if their not well some things are better left to yourself
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Flat out tell them.
I know when people criticize my peotry, it's like they're criticizing me.
--Social Suicide
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Ultimately it does not matter what they think. Really it does not. Growing up as a writer and journalist at 14 was not easy with friends and people jealous and never understanding why I did it or was in newspapers anyway. The fact is you have a talent here and you better use it in every way you can and even make money from writing.
You need to become the best damn writer possible and focus on the talent. If your friends don't get it trust me the people who count will including teachers, parents, others who respect good writing. I have the hunch that what you may be writing is so different, intelligent and perhaps too intellectual for most young people to get right now.
If those poems mean a lot to you go forward with writing more and as far as sharing goes be selective and pick adults or older people to see them. If your friends do not get it no need to even tell them about it. None of my friends ever bothered to read a single thing I wrote published or otherwise and it does not bother me. If their nose is out of joint or them make a dumb or hurtful comment it says more about them than you.
I have this haunting suspicion your friend read it and was impressed but jealous she could not do it herself. Focus on your writing, keep it to your ownself for now and later on when you get so good at it there will be no denying your talent whether she is still a friend or not. That is what to do learn to be the best damn poet or writer going then nobody can deny the talent you possess.
Anyways, send me something to the mailbox on here and I will read it and let you know what I think from one writer to another that started out close to your age. I know some places if you are really good where you can get them published including Young People's Press who publish online and in newspapers in the United States and Canada
Try them on for size ypp.net thy will teach you how to write like a journalist would at your age from movie reviews, features, stories or whatever else. Start there and see what happens.
They will appreciate it and you might as well stay in their program and start writing all kinds of engaging articles on topics that you relate too. Anyways, send me one. I won't lie to you if it's bad it's bad and if it's good it's good. There's no grey areas with me on writing.
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You know, if they're your real friends they'll understand how deeply you care about your poetry and how much it means to you. Show them a poem you're particularly proud of and if they like it, cool, and if they don't like it, thats cool too, they probably just dont understand it. Other peoples' measure of your talent is only as important as you make it out to be, remember that.
But hey, being a tortured artist(/poet) is cool! =D. Not many poets get the recognition they deserve when they want it.
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