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Michael .P (Mik3y)
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| | Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 06:23 pm: | 
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I've found the most emotional 'Happy' writes are usually the ones that have you teary eyed and smiling like theres no tomorrow! Those poems are very moving and inspirational..i love them! It usually starts out as the poet or the character in the poem been completely selfless and that generousity or pure innocence has you crying and smiling
Michael william James
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jennifer olivia woodliff (Starloser)
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 05:33 am: |
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I have writen and painted in times of well being and the product finished does not seem as self defining, nor has it the secret door that my low works can lead me back through. I can cry after reading or upon looking at a work of pain, at the same time I will not break out in blush or weep with satisfaction upon re-entering works of joy.
The feeling of joy is much more dificult to regain than that of pain for me. Having that said I suppose I feel more comfortable with working and relating in sorrow only on the simplest of levels for I am most efficient in dispersing these ideas. I would say 'in general' most people enjoy doing and seeing work come from what they feel they do and know best. This,I suppose, is why some feel more comfortable when in times of mild to modest depression or self questioning.
Jennifer Olivia Woodliff
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Jim Armstrong (Njaeok)
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| | Posted on Friday, March 25, 2005 - 02:26 pm: |
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My observations and personal experience lead me to consider "happy", as a form of divine insanity. Or perhaps demonic insanity depending on wheather you approve of or are offended by the happy situation.
I know a couple of folks who are happy if they have an ample supply of booze on hand. I know others who are just as eager for the booze in spite of the fact that it makes them mean and unhappy with everything. They all consider me wierd because booze only makes me stupid and sleepy. If I drink a whole beer or hiball I am too stupid and sleeply to care if I am happy or not.
I can remember when some friends of mine were very happy to have a bite to eat. Now they are unhappy that they can't find a resturant with a properly trained cheif. Go figure.
I got lucky. I discovered some years ago that being alive was a happier condition then being dead. So as long as I am alive I will cherish every pain, heartache, joy, thrill, success, and failure; in short, every experience that demonstrates that I am alive is a happy experience.
Jimbo
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Michael .P (Mik3y)
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| | Posted on Friday, March 25, 2005 - 06:02 am: |
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I think the reason people might perhaps feel so comfortable in sadness is because they feel a sense of security in knowing it cant get any lower. The idea of learning sadness's purpose in life. To bring happiness we must first fall to sadness. Perhaps that is what inspires us so much to write that overwhelming feeling of comfortable despair if i may use an oxymoron..
or juxtapose comfort with sadness.. i duno i think we are a bit more deeper than the shallow perception of sadness cliched, we delve into the negative to find irony and sarcasm and happiness. The bizzare thing is we can find it all in sadness; but when happy you needn't find much but joy peace and love. In this time we're usually out doing stuff racing around at 100 miles an hour making the most of it and before we know it tis gone.
Michael william James
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cath (Catscanfly)
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 07:27 pm: |
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by 'comfortable', could you be more specific?
I guess there could be many different theories as to why people are best pleased when unhappy.
it's certainly easy to string together a collection of melanchollic buzz words and phrases that, when presented together, will easily draw a 'wow' from an audience who are probably less than wholly absorbed in the more profound ideas that inspired that poem.
thousands of endless duplicates of that same tired and tested 'spurned lover' poems, the 'near suicidal teen' poems, or variations on these themes appear everyday.
In short, it's just basically easier to write a miserablist poem than it is to write anything else. anyone can do it- and anyone can feel good having done it, as the end result will hardly ever fail to please.
In addition to this, of course, the fact that many people will simply shelve their note books and pens in the happier, busier or more carefree days of their lives- it is far more common to feel compelled to write at all when you are feel negative- poetry is, after all, therapy.
if anyone has ever tried to express themselves poetically when they were not scraping the depths of their beings in cold loneliness and despair, and instead were, for example, experiencing the joy of a snow storm- the indescribable chill of a lover's hand, their nose, a touch, an expression, a word, a song, a wave, the water, the sky, a sound, just anything!
It's so impossible for me to write good poetry on these things- the things that matter the most to me.
So i suppose ultimately that i agree with you, in that i certainly believe that for many, writing sad poetry is more satisfying than anything else.
art thrives upon turmoil, it's true- but the greatest artist can draw on anything, and not just negativity.
"You're a goddam dirty moron!" The Catcher In The Rye
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jennifer olivia woodliff (Starloser)
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 05:45 am: |
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I note in myself as well as in some others that often times we feel most comfortable when stressed or slightly blue.
Theory: this is because the artistic mind is easier inspired by hurt or distrust and anxiety rather than positive aspects either of false or true form thus giving fruit to the self they connect and express best through. I would like to know if any other ideas about this subject have been pondered and to learn some of them.
Jennifer Olivia Woodliff
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