Sunday, October 22, 2006

Why Is This Place So Damn Gloomy???

Mostly because I can't write poetry when I'm happy. Anything I try to write when I'm feeling good is either funny or it just plain sucks.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Ennui," a previously unpublished poem by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sylvia Plath, will appear November 1, 2006 in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts (www.blackbird.vcu.edu). Journey, a published poet and recent winner of the Wabash Prize from Sycamore Review, is the author of a forthcoming scholarly article on "Ennui."


Mei Liu (Intern, Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts)

Cie Cheesemeister said...

Well, at least its appropriate Spam.

tsduff said...

So which do you prefer? Feeling good and writing crummy, or feely crummy and writing good? Tough choice, I know. :-D

The Violent Vixen said...

Hi! Love your multitude of blogs, but this one is my favorite!
I can relate, poetry just doesn't flow well when I'm happy. So lately, I've been writing a lot of poetry... dunno if that's really a good thing. Anyway, I'll definitely be stopping my your blog(s) from time to time.

SC

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Cie Cheesemeister said...

Terry,
I don't think I'm allowed a preference. I am what I am. I never want to feel BAD, but maybe its necessary a to have a little gloom sometimes to write decently. Actually, comedy sometimes manifests from unhappy places too. People who don't go through this can never really understand it. I guess I don't see it as either good or bad. It just IS.

SC,
Thanks for your kind thoughts! I'll look forward to seeing you again. There are other blogs that I update more often than this one, because with poetry, I can't just crack off an idea. It has to come to me!