Poetic Reflection Special Tribe: C. Sasmita

1. Tell us about yourself.

Actually I’m just an ordinary 21 years old person. I’m the first daughter and have two younger sisters. My father is lecturer at university so he wish me do the best on my academicals yet developing my right brain such as painting, cinematography, and writing nonfiction is a useless idea after all, so I studied physics at my campus and life seem flows very plain. Until I follow the theater club at campus in 2010th , I began develop my hobby especially in writing poem and short stories. I show my talent to Dad, until he bring me permission to progress what I love to do.
Now I'm poet who blog. I never feel so confidence to say I’m a poet until... Whooaa... Jingle Poetry is the first who found me! I’m so excited! I can meet and greet the other poet. They commented my poem and I learned a lot from them about a various form of poetry. Knowing people read my thought and feed it back is my highest honor.


2. Tell me about your blog, the name, what does it mean to you?

The same as I get everything I want to paint with words, finding my blog’s name “Journey to Eternity” just kinda revelation for me. As the intersection of births and deaths, which in essence similar, I'm a wanderer in life just only want the simple things, to make my self not be chagrined was born nor regret after death. I drowned in the process of life like everybody does, I started it with hurt, macabre and tragedy (what be the most characteristic in my poem), less romance, until I find enlightenment that change me a lot! Made me realize who truly my self, peoples around me, universe, and God (if you read my first post and compare it to the newest one, please tell me if you find any different sense). But don't you think I’m to young to think philosophically? Hahhaha... I’m proud of being this weirdness

3.When did you start blogging?

I started seriously to administer my blog in June 2011. I ever made a blog before but I forgot the password. :D


4.Your first poem? Remember?

I never ever forget my first poem in English that I write in Senior High School, titled

SACRED

Shore let me know
Hollow of my deep dark soul
Let’s the eve with cursed wish
Trapped on tragedy
Furrow the light
In this everlasting night
Judas priest stare scarily
For the smile of bloody cheers


5.What are your writing inspirations?

My inspiration could be everything. But I never use them, wishing them to flow in my head by force because the inspiration came to me by itself. Actually what I had written does not belong to me entirely. I love to thinking about everything, dig in something into the deep, but I’ve never succeed satisfied my self with what I want to write. Until I find my self trance to bear what “something unknown” feel, what they want to express by using me, they choosing me the words. So, I believe every phrase and words have their spirits.


6. How do you define poetry as “Good”? Do you revise your work?

As long as the poem flows from feeling, and the reader can understand the meaning even with a simple word I define it “honesty in writing”. Is there anything more lovely than that? Indeed I revise my work since English is the language that I still learned for. I’m afraid there is any grammatical mistake in my poem. :)


7.When did you start writing poetry? Do you write fiction as well?

I started writing short story and novel from Junior High School especially for poetry I started write it in Senior High School but not really discipline.


8. Do you have a favorite author or poet?

Indeed! no author who could make me feel a strange sensation and palpitations by her writing except Barbara Cartland


9.Favorite quote?

“Everything is all for good” by revelation


10.Why do you support Jingle Poetry Community, including Jingle Poetry @ The Gooseberry Garden?

Of course I support Jingle Poetry Community. Because without Jingle, I can’t develop my skill in writing. It seems if Jingle didn’t find me by links, I will be “a poet who blogs but trapped in the box”. I do appreciate the motivation, comment and compliments among the poets so it motivates me a lot so I can be better and better.


11. What's your plan for your future writing?

I want published a book of my poem collection, if there is any fortune. But most of all I want to awaken the world by my words. Everyone would enjoy what is inside in my mind, and I will accept it as my precious honor.

Sincerely,

C.Sasmita -Journey to Eternity-

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Poetic Reflections Special Tribe: Lilly

Tell us about yourself.

Well, there isn’t actually that much to tell. Very briefly, I’m a translator and a writer, with

a preponderant inclination towards poetry rather than towards prose. I have started to write poems when I was 18 and haven’t stopped writing since that day. The only changes made in time were related to my writing language, which some years ago turned from Romanian into English :).

Tell me about your blog, the name, what does it mean to you?

“Endless Journey” is a symbol, the symbol of my own constant search for more, of my personal openness to experience and to learning. It is the place where I prove myself on a daily basis that infinity can be touched and felt.

My blog link:

http://summaryofmysoul.wordpress.com/

When did you start blogging?

I wrote the first post in my blog in June 2010. I still remember the thrills of that start and how I had no idea of how to use the platform :). God, I can’t believe it’s been already a year and a half.

Your first poem? Remember?

Yes, it was called “Anonymous will”, it is posted on my blog, on the “Who I am” page, together with its birth history :).

What are your writing inspirations?

Life, love, nature, words, philosophy, people…honestly, I never made a list of those…

How do you define poetry as “Good”? Do you revise your work?

“Good” means that, if I read it out-loud, I can hear it flowing. I rarely revise my work, because usually I don’t publish a text unless I am perfectly satisfied with it.

When did you start writing poetry? Do you write fiction as well?

I began writing poetry the moment I began to write at all, 14 years ago. I do write fiction, mainly short stories, and currently I am also working on a novel.

Do you have a favorite author or poet?

I have many favorite authors and poets…But to quote just two of them, I’d say that the poet that marked my soul from the very first second when I read it was Nichita Stanescu, and the writer was Umberto Eco.

Favorite quote?

The one that comes to my mind in this very second is one that belongs to Mother Teresa, and it goes sort of like this: “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

Why do you support Jingle Poetry Community, including Jingle Poetry @ The Gooseberry Garden?

First of all because I was adopted by this community when I was just beginning to learn how to blog, and I was kinda lost in the vastness of this online activity. Then one day Jingle came around and in the next second I wasn’t alone anymore :). So you see, JPC is sort of my blogging family :).

Secondly, because there are so many wonderful poets and writers that are a part of this community! And they all deserve to be supported and read and encouraged!

What's your plan for your future writing?

Well, I have tons of future plans – I have one new poetry collection ready to be published, I’m working on a novel, as I have already told you, and since poetry still flows through my being and comes to life through my pen, I guess I’ll just keep on writing for the rest of my life :).

Poetic Reflections on Carlin Brian: A Special Tribe

My name is Brian Carlin, am a 53 year old Scot, living in Glasgow with my beautiful wife Susie. Married for 32 years, with two grown up kids , Cassie and Liam. I've been a psychiatric nurse for 25 years, mostl of that time caring for the elderly.

In my younger years played bass guitar and wrote lyrics in a band called Apes in Control, thus online I became apemanb (a play on the beefheart song title Ant Man Bee) and the blog became my Big Ape Diary.

What does the blog mean to me?

well I'm not the most gregarious of characters and it's a means of getting what I write out there and connecting with people

I started the blog about two and a half years ago, having been on twitter a while doin haiku, which kick-started the drive to write poetry again.

The first EVER poem I claimed to have written was a spike Milligan one about a Strawberry Mousse which got me plaudits from my schoolmates...never ever owned up to the plagiarism.

The first lyric I wrote was for a piece called Helmet which began:

He's got a helmet
And he's inside it
Writing inspirations?
Recreating memories of childhood
Trying to crystallize a particular image or feeling
Writing about the people I love
Occasionally trying to turn words into paintings or sculpture
What is good poetry for me?
The exact word for the exact feeling or thing.

In the truest rhythm of free verse, where I can feel the beating heart of the poem as I read it.

Revision? Never used to, but yes, all the time now...I've taken down about 300 pieces which I feel need reworked, as I've gotten to understand more about how I write and what I'm looking for. Tried writing prose pieces , and although they were ok, I find I have a different kind of energy than it requires, so no ,no fiction.

Favourite author/poet?

Knut Hamsun, Kurt Vonnegut , haruki murakami, D.H.Lawrence, Ezra pound, William Carlos Williams , Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Tom Leonard , to name but a few Favorite quote

"watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow" Zappa

Why support Jingle?

Because it has the unmitigated audacity to get out and do the necessary.

Because of what the community has become through its members, because nothing comes close to the club of friendship it is.

Future plans?

To feel I'm getting closer to capturing exactly what I think and feel in written form, to be happier with it, to connect.

That's all from me, the noo, Brian x :-)

Visit me at:

http://theprimate.wordpress.com/

Poetic Reflections Week 25

Tell us about yourself.

Let me say first off, I do not consider myself a poet... I always say that sometimes I just like to mess around with my brain and see what I can come up with. Now about me...I call myself Gigi Ann (Gigi meaning Great Gramma) I was a stay at home mom, with 5 children. We lived on a farm, so there was always something to do to keep us all busy. I am now a Gramma of 9 grandchildren. The Great-gramma of 6 great-grandchildren. With 2 more on the way in 2012. 

Tell me about your blog, the name, what does it mean to you?

I named my blog "Shadows Of My Mind" because it is where I post my 'so called poems,' and I always think of my poems as 'shadows of my mind' therefore, the name of my blog.

When did you start blogging?

I created this blog "Shadows Of My Mind" in March of 2011. However, I have been blogging since 2007. My first blog was "Quotes and Things" created in 2007.

Your first poem? Remember?

One snowy February day in 2008, with not much to do, but watch the snow fall, I decided to try and write a poem. This is the result of my first try at trying to write a poem.

"Memories"

When I was a young girl, I strolled in the woods,

and ate wild berries, boy were they good.

But, now that I'm older, I set in my chair and

stroll down the path of memories so fair.

I remember running through the pines

all covered with snow, they were so beautiful.

Oh! where did the time go?

There was sledding and dances, school fairs to attend,

also roller skating and fun with my friends.

Then I was married and a mother of five.

How those little ones kept me active and alive.

Oh my! where did the time go?

I remember the smell of the babies so dear.

The sweet little sounds that came to my ears.

But now they are grown and have babes of their own.

And made me a Gramma, so grand and so great !!

Oh, dear me! where did the time go?

Time comes and time goes, but my memories remain.

Bringing me pleasure, as I stroll down memories lane.

It's always a delight to be back in my chair and

stroll down the path of memories so fair.

And wonder again as I look at the snow,

where oh where did the time go?

(Gigi Ann 2/13/2008)

What are your writing inspirations?

I think picture prompts are what help me to set down and try to put words with the pictures. If you cruise through my blog, you will notice that all of my poems are accompanied by a picture. 

How do you define poetry as “Good”? Do you revise your work?

As I mentioned before, I don't consider myself a poet, but how I define "Good" poetry is when I can read it and understand what it is about. I never use 'complicated' words in my poetry. I like a more simplified easy to read form of poetry. I also do not care for poems that go on, and on, and on, after a while I lose interest. Do I revise my work? I have revised a few of my poems, after a few weeks, I may go back and read them and try to revise them for the better.

When did you start writing poetry? Do you write fiction as well?

I wrote my first poem on February 13, 2008...Do I write fiction? No I do not write fiction. However, I do read a lot of fiction. I have a blog "Ann's Reading Corner" devoted to reading, and memes about reading things.

Do you have a favorite author or poet?

I do have a favorite poet, she is Hazelmarie Elliott. I love her poetry.

Favorite quote?

My favorite quote has nothing to do with poetry, but here it is. "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." ~ Erasmus ~

Why do you support Jingle Poetry Community, including Jingle Poetry @ The Gooseberry Garden?

I enjoy reading others poetry. However, I am a bad commenter on others blogs. I need to try and do better in the future. However, I do love reading the poems of all the 'real' poets. I learn so much from reading others poems.

What's your plan for your future writing?

I will try to write a poem or two, but I don't sweat the small stuff. If I'm in a poetry frame of mind, I try to think of something to write, otherwise, I enjoy the poetry of others.

Thank you, Jingles, for hosting the poetry blogs, I have found much enjoyment in reading so many of the other real poets poems, and visiting their blogs.

Jingle Poetry at The Gooseberry Garden ‘Poem of The Week’

The poem’s Title ‘Walls of My City’ had two deep references that were striking to me as a reader. The word ‘walls’ had multifarious connotations  not only as a safe haven but also as a prison or a confined place where one feels highly insecure physically as well as spiritually. ‘My City’ brought nostalgia helplessness and a sense of loss, for the 5^th of February is a Day of Remembrance of my Homeland Kashmir, still an occupied territory, where the natives long to go as free citizens. My reason for choosing this poem is to highlight the importance of Freedom and Human Rights and to make this world a better place for everyone. One should not feel alienated with all the grandeur of towers, grand cities and lose hope to say ‘life is meaningless’ The last lines are an acceptance of ‘reality’ in the words ‘dust’’Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return’ why then do we ignore our fellow human beings and in them the reality of ‘being’A beautiful poem to think about ‘life our obligations and The Truth and to see things ‘as they really are’ as Poet Critic Mathew Arnold stated in his Critical Essays. I present ‘The Walls of My City’ by ‘Altered Reality Mr Visionary as Poem of The Week’…

I have abandoned everything                                                    

Like a monk with weary eyes

I am a hermit within the city walls

Tall towers of light are only columns of dreams

I have fled from the horizon

to study the core

I am tired of all the signs -

In a falling leaf

the whole universe is summarized.

Don’t wake me up!

Let me sleep in my rich delusions

Let me be like dust

that never had a name

 it never spoke a word.

More about Altered Reality at

http://creativelag.blogspot.com/2012/01/walls-of-my-city.html