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The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry » Forum: General Scribblings - Recent Posts http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/forum/general-scribblings Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:05:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php Ambrosia on "a poem from someone that can't write anything, let alone poetry" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-poem-from-someone-that-cant-write-anything-let-alone-poetry#post-281569 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:03:48 +0000 Ambrosia 281569@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Yes, he was mine. I'm afraid he died some time ago, but I have fond memories of him. He was a very soft and loving boy called Jasper, not feisty at all. The camera just caught him in mid-miaow, lol. nanny rabbits on "My Grandma & Her Eternal Metaphors?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/my-grandma-her-eternal-metaphors#post-281533 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:30:45 +0000 nanny rabbits 281533@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ dear Batesy 57 being semi-psychotic myself at the moment i am trying not to think too much about these questions. i find your writing breathlessly beautiful though. really lovely, i hope you'll post more of it <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":)" class="bb_smilies" /> nanny rabbits on "a poem from someone that can't write anything, let alone poetry" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-poem-from-someone-that-cant-write-anything-let-alone-poetry#post-281525 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:31:18 +0000 nanny rabbits 281525@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <blockquote><cite>Ambrosia <a href="//www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-poem-from-someone-that-cant-write-anything-let-alone-poetry#post-281511"">said</a>:</cite> I think it's good. Very intense imagery.</blockquote> <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":)" class="bb_smilies" /> thank you x that's a fiesty looking tabby, is he/she yours? Ambrosia on "a poem from someone that can't write anything, let alone poetry" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-poem-from-someone-that-cant-write-anything-let-alone-poetry#post-281511 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:36:04 +0000 Ambrosia 281511@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I think it's good. Very intense imagery. nanny rabbits on "a poem from someone that can't write anything, let alone poetry" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-poem-from-someone-that-cant-write-anything-let-alone-poetry#post-281485 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:08:23 +0000 nanny rabbits 281485@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ freshly written. gosh, i'm shy about sharing this -a piece of me! an uneducated, dyslexic with no clues about grammer so here i am wearing a gown of deepest mauve/grey, in mourning still. raw real (manic) else i wouldn't be writing on a forum at all - being a private sort of person. a wallflower ~~~~~~~~~~~~ i don't listen to the words in the other room for fear, for fear yet drawn i am ohhh they are like blossoms of the almond kind silky voiced, hessian voiced, barbed wire voiced a million deliverances drift, drift subtle soft i bolt my heart i bolt it hard no!!!!!!!!!!! blasted voices, blast them to doom crush them underfoot dissolve cruel beauty, dissolve fragile, tender nooooooooo they trick me they cry oh please, don't cry oh my god.....look at them half-transparent as tortured wings the voices are my wings my wings! and i destroyed them ~~~~~~~ James_McGregor on "Saying it with pictures" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/saying-it-with-pictures#post-281315 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:52:12 +0000 James_McGregor 281315@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ ps. if youd like to see proper high res versions you can see them on flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/luminar2010/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/luminar2010/</a> <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> James_McGregor on "Saying it with pictures" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/saying-it-with-pictures#post-281313 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:45:50 +0000 James_McGregor 281313@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ thanks Ambrosia, i guess the main reason for the captions was one of the first things you learn as a photographer is to always give a photo a title lol i guess it kind of stuck! very glad you like though, thanks a lot <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> Ambrosia on "Saying it with pictures" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/saying-it-with-pictures#post-281307 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:03:52 +0000 Ambrosia 281307@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Hi, James, I've been trying to look at your photos, but when I click on them they don't enlarge so I can't really examine them closely, which is a shame. From what I can see of the small versions on your home page, they look atmospheric and interesting, but I'd like to see bigger versions if that's possible. PS: Ignore that. It was me being particularly stupid and not allowing them to load properly. I've now seen them and I think they are absolutely beautiful! You are amazingly talented. They are just the kind of atmospheric photographs I love. Can I make one small comment? You don't need the explanatory text, your wonderful photos speak for themselves. Please don't take that as a criticism, I just don't think the descriptions are needed. James_McGregor on "Saying it with pictures" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/saying-it-with-pictures#post-281305 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:58:35 +0000 James_McGregor 281305@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Hi all, Nice to see everyone being creative, and to have a place to do it so freely <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> For me my creativity is something that i try to express with photography, to the end that i have been creating a Noir and a Movie Feel themed couple of sets at my website at <a href="http://www.jmcgregorphotos.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.jmcgregorphotos.co.uk</a> - These sets have been good therapy for me, and say more about me, my situation and my outlook than any number of words that i could write. Thanks for lookin <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> mcelderrypoems on "Straight or gay? (A sonnet)" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/straight-or-gay-a-sonnet#post-281269 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:50:27 +0000 mcelderrypoems 281269@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Mother Night, Mistress Moon When pregnant Night descends, her darkling robe enfolds me softly in its cool embrace and sparkling starry babies fill the globe, while midwife Moon looks on with beaming face. Though daylight fuels my ardour for the Sun, I still cannot resist Night's female charms, seducing me to sleep with her as one, encircling me with restful, dusk silk arms. And while day lord Apollo burns more bright and noon-time's light shines deeper in my eyes, my heart longs for the mystery of Night, the starflecked secrets of nocturnal skies. Sun-warmed or moon-lit, by night or by day, love is just love, it is not straight or gay. Ambrosia on "For Nitro! Poetry I should be shot for having the audacity to write" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/for-nitro-poetry-i-should-be-shot-for-having-the-audacity-to-write/page/35#post-281231 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:45:18 +0000 Ambrosia 281231@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ K76, I don't understand your post at all. This has been a thread of people having fun with words and rhyming. I don't know why you think there is any sarcasm or venom involved. We all know what we write isn't Shakespeare, we're having a laugh and hopefully entertaining each other. K76 on "For Nitro! Poetry I should be shot for having the audacity to write" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/for-nitro-poetry-i-should-be-shot-for-having-the-audacity-to-write/page/35#post-281225 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:17:03 +0000 K76 281225@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Hi there, Excuse me please but with 512 replies, I do not have the time nor inclination to scroll through all of them. As such, I am commenting on the initial post. Everyone can write poetry. Everyone SHOULD write poetry. It is cathartic. However, to retaliate to criticism with sarcasm or venom states (to me) that the poetry is written with the desire to 'unearth' and then retaliate to this distain (similar to football hooligan attending a match) Why are you bothered? And similarly, why are the people who express negative critique bothered to write? Ask yourself this question... is it important to you? If so, why? I believe that what IS important is that it's YOUR voice and you are expressing YOUR voice as you wish. Don’t be dismayed, do not get angry. Enjoy your freedom of speech and rejoice in your own creativity. K x Chaoticia on "A fiction novel called Vibrant Night and a side character named Fry." http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/a-fiction-novel-called-vibrant-night-and-a-side-character-named-fry#post-281095 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:26:38 +0000 Chaoticia 281095@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I wrote a Gothic/Literary Nonsense/Fantasy novel called Vibrant Night (details below). I had a side character who I ended up naming Fry. Though the character bears no resemblence to Stephen Fry, it fit the sporadic nature of the story and was a literary nod, or bow-- if your reading from Asia then it was a bow. Then again it could've been a Western bow, after all, this is Literary Nonsense. Summary: Lacie is an anxious college Freshman and her roommate is never around. Tuesday seems pretty boring until she finds herself looking at floating donuts in a city plunged in eternal night and vibrant madness. She meets the meek, Gothic employee Elizabeth and naturally, asks her to find a way out. The two travel towards someone known as Herbert who resides inside of the illustrious All-Mart-- but on the way, Elizabeth is kidnapped by a marble-headed man (who is aided by a treadmill). Lacie goes forth into N'quevna with her life on the line, and scope-eyes, and hair that smells like strawberries! The book took me 4 years to write and is mixture of Literary Nonsense, Fantasy, Gothic, Satire, Sci-Fi, Adventure, and Comedy. It was most notably inspired by Hayao Miyazaki, Alice in Wonderland, the synthesis of Gothic Discordianism, and the Shivering Isles expansion of the video game Oblivion; as well as taking an actual town in Southeastern Michigan and turning it into a somewhat dangerous and modernized 'wonderland'. This book can be read for free: On Blogspot.: <a href="http://chaoticia.blogspot.com/search/label/Novel%3A%20Vibrant%20Night" rel="nofollow">http://chaoticia.blogspot.com/search/label/Novel%3A%20Vibrant%20Night</a> On DeviantArt: <a href="http://yourdoom243.deviantart.com/art/Vibrant-Night-Chapter-1-by-Okami-Carroll-267078728" rel="nofollow">http://yourdoom243.deviantart.com/art/Vibrant-Nigh.....-267078728</a> A physical copy of Vibrant Night can be bought here: <a href="https://www.createspace.com/3770699" rel="nofollow">https://www.createspace.com/3770699</a> Thanks for reading. K76 on "Music Box" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/music-box#post-280815 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:58:03 +0000 K76 280815@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Thank you very much for your comments. There are in effect, 3 'issues' with the same undercurrent of 'Time'. Firstly 'Time is running out and its being ignored'. Secondly, 'Time has not been used wisely'. And finally, 'Society dictating how your time should be spent'. Im glad you stated it was disjointed. As this is a poem based on a person, I believe that if it wasn't in some way disjointed, then it would not be a true reflection of an individual. Conflict is inevitable (if you are true to yourself). However, as the end line of the poem states, the reason for 'time running out', the reason for 'not using time wisely' is procrastination and above all, FEAR. Thank you again. You have been very gracious. You could have said it was bollocks! <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif" title=":D" class="bb_smilies" /> Nitro on "Music Box" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/music-box#post-280785 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:25:25 +0000 Nitro 280785@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Thank you for answering that. It seems both very personal but also something that people besides yourself could relate to. Like some people make the mistake of writing a poem just way so personally specific, nobody can understand the references made. I liked the opening line straight away and then, you're right, it did start to feel disjointed. And stringing 'fleeting' 'chaotic' 'subliminal' and 'deafening' together has almost a finger tap rythm. I thought of all the noise, including myself, on the internet at first. There's millions out there trying to be heard ( hi youtube! lol ) but at the same time kind of angry or fearful. Blurgh, I'm totally failing at my intent. Pardon me, I'm not trying to analyze your poem, ( not even close to talented enough to do that ), or anything but it's nice to see a use of strong adjectives anywhere. I think it goes against a certain trend in some writing where saying 'the cat' is enough and people calling themselves artists rationalize their laziness or hide behind the word 'Art', you know? As if claiming that excuses everything the creator does. Probably what strikes me the most is the conflict and tension throughout. The 'drama' or whatever. Anyway, I have no earthly idea what I'm talking about but hope you'll keep writing <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":)" class="bb_smilies" />