PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

What you perceive as cheap attempts at poetry could just be new poets who are not yet as advanced. Go read my early stuff in Journal #1. I bet you could not tell back then with the stuff I was writing that I would evolve like I have. One of those cheap attempts written that you read may one day in our elder years turn out to later become one of the finest poets this century has ever known. Funny thing is, if Post Poems is around then many will with advanced technology be able to read disparaging comments others made early on about such later well known poets and laugh and think wow he or she sure got that wrong. One man's cheap attempts is another 's evolutionary road to a deeper knowing. Man with his limited insight is of no position to judge that is why we have that saying, Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his shoes. Anyway, I saw that on the second read through from you and wanted to add that reply. I see poems too that are shall we say less than stellar but who am I to judge. Look at the paintings by Van Gogh he couldn't give them away many thought they were absolute trash and wouldn't take them now they are worth billions collectively. Imagine if you could bring one of those people who got one of his paintings as a gift for free and tell them this how stupid they would feel. Is the same lesson just in a different package. I'll read more of your work SSmoothie I do enjoy your writing. Again most sincerely, Melissa Lundeen.

I strongly believe none of us fully know our true selves. We get glimpses and we take those and fill in the blanks as best as we can. Of course most everyone has a sense of themselves but starting on the basis that one believes they possess a soul. That soul is quite unknown to us. I know I have a soul and I account all that is good in my life to the guidance of my soul and the good parenting I received from my beloved Mother while growing up but we have free will in these vehicles and many as you know go on and do things they know are wrong whether it's merely lying about something small just so we don't have to face up to the conflict telling the truth would entail or to the extreme of murder or some other heinous crime. All poetry is written by fallible people. Some are spiritually inspired but it's the fallible human that interprets what is being given so through those channels there can be mistakes made unknowingly about what was given and what was actually received to be understood at this end of the process plus we react to others reflections of themselves not their true self. Here is where the watcher and the thinker come into play. The watcher being the soul the thinker being the ego. We write through the hand controlled by the ego but sometimes it's ideas from the watcher that come through ere the higher self but the ego always has final choice to use exactly what the watcher has sent or to put it's own personal touch on that. I have personally evolved a lot but I still have to work at keeping my own flawed ego in check. I think many of my poems reflect me doing just that or rather trying to suspend my ego as best as I can. Sometimes for some people I am sure it's like trying to take a pure clean drink of water from a dirty stream. That would be my best simplest summation. Thank you both for your comments. I enjoy reading both of your works. I also enjoy this interaction greatly. Sincerely , Melissa Lundeen
P.S. I hope I didn't come off as a huge blow hard writing this reply.
If so , I do sincerely apologize.