I think I write better comments than posts (do not go looking for my comments and then smirk!). I also think, sometimes, that I write better mails than posts. I also think that I think of more imaginative things when I'm talking rather than writing. I think it has to do with the ball being returned from the other side. Conversation can stimulate thoughts, thoughts can stimulate writing, writing results in posts, posts give birth to comments, comments are replied to, the comments and their replies become a cyberspatial conversation, and another thought is sometimes born, and another post...
I noticed a lot of people visited my blog after my last effort but depressingly few bothered to comment. That can mean a) you're bored or/and b) my last post sucked.
If you're bored of me or my writing, you're probably not reading this anyway. If you are, keep coming back to see how long you can bear me. Actually, how can you be bored? I just changed the template, I added goodies on the sidebar, I even reply to comments now and now I offer you a genre-defying post after tepid poetry and scholarly film reviews on masala movies from Bollywood and Hollywood. Goddamn you if you're still bored. I can't offer adrenalin shots every alternate day if you can't find the energy to comment.
If you think my last post sucked, you should keep a few things in mind before thinking so and refusing to comment as a comment. One, do you write poems, or have you ever written poems? They are not easy to write, and I'm Robert Frust, remember? Not Frost. If you have, go to two. Two, do you write, or have you written more than three, poems that rhyme? That follow a rhyme scheme, while still making some sense?
Unless you are
Neruda or, well, Frost
I don't count
You as a
Poet
If you write a
Little story
That sucks/
Is nonsense,
So shut your
Eyes
And break it up
Randomly
Into pieces and
Publish it
As your very own
Free verse.
If you routinely write rhyming ballads or pensive free verse, I beg your apo-lo-gies (three syllables, no?) and would you please proceed to three?
Three, if you're so bloody brilliant what are you doing here wasting your time? And now that you are here, why don't you encourage a poor struggling poet with encouragement [and praise *hopeful sad smile, empty hat in hand*].
posted by Robert Frust at 5:39 PM
17 Comments:
whoa!! you seem to be all (f)ired up
a) your blog is good, with or without comments
b)keep in mind that you probably receive more comments on one post than I have received in all my 9 posts so far, and therefore stop cribbing
c) switch to poetry of the kind encountered in bhoot, that will definitely draw comments by the dozen and i kinda recall that bak then it did
d) lastly, and truthfully, i have written more than 3 nice poems with rhyme schemes although it was too far bak to remember
e) refer to my first post(indirect publicity being employed here ;) ) to realize how difficult it is to open a blog page in the first place from our esteemed alma-mater, and thus realize the difficulties involved in commenting for a majority of your readers (do correct me if i am wrong on this one)
22/6/06 6:38 PM
At least in your intial days as a poet, you're being given the treatment that all great poets were given in their initial days. Savor it, for tomorrow is uncertain.
22/6/06 10:13 PM
Just for the hat, here's a dime:)
23/6/06 1:07 AM
Well, I think as one of the most regular and oldest readers of your blog, I am entitled to the luxury of an honest comment.
Frankly, Mr. Frust, zyada ho raha hai dude!
I kinda liked it more when you pretended not to care about comments and hits and what you wrote here or elsewhere or what others did, soo much. Relax. This is as immaterial as it gets.
I used to get 50 comments/post once. I barely hit double digits these days, and I'm not the least concerned, because how does it matter anyway. We all write for our own sake.......
OK if all this was too vicious, sorry, bad morning and all...
On a lighter note...
Thoughts will be born forever in minds that dare to think
I don;t apologise if you think they suck
or if my favourite color is pink
Noone is bored, we like your blog
And nobody needs to justify or explain
Writing anything is not easy, poetic or plain
And you're marvellous, as I have often said
so stop fretting, and poetry is not SO tough!
neither rhyme nor free verse, wats tough is the idea
And we know u got it, so dont bluff...
The post made me smile, for it's funny and all
But it feels slightly overboard too
I'm sorry for being so cross, it's just a bad day
And look what a bad limerick today I do..
:(
23/6/06 9:45 AM
[all] People, you have to realize when I write something like this, it's for fun. I just felt full of energy and this was the outlet for the release. I do not need assurances about the quality of my blog, and I'm not going to desist from going overboard because it won't fetch me comments. It's my blog, and my life, and my wish and all that.
[arpit] Refer to above. Fun post, da. Don't take it as a personal affront dude.
[robert frost] At least you take the post in the right spirit. It takes a poet to understand a fraudy poet, what?
[cleo] You too, good. You were also the one who understood that line about ABC... you're smart.
[phoenix] Kya zyada ho raha hai? Why should I pretend I don't care about comments? And why can't people take my sarcasm in the right spirit? Guys, I DID NOT write this post as a hurt reaction to the previous post's inability to draw comments. I tried to be funny. Period.
"For our own sake..."? Says who? If I have to truly write for my own sake I'll write it in my Diary, why would I want to publish it and invite comments?
And , okay, nice poem. You are hereby excused from the category of people I refuse to accept criticism from. Isn't your favourite colour red? :)
23/6/06 10:34 AM
As a routinely struggling writer of pensive vers libre I'm in love with your 'Thing No. Two'.
Sometimes though it makes me wonder,
In moments when the post and the comments are torn asunder;
Do we really write for an audience, the hoi polloi?
and then, I return to my writing, in a manner ever so coy.
23/6/06 10:37 AM
abey kya kar riyo hai! jitne aate hain utne bhi band ho jayenge! :P
waise yaar sach baat hai ..comments r drying here as well ..kya apun log itta sada likh rele hain kya :(
oye u shud write one abt women ..tera fav topic ..kafi time se likhela bhi nahin hai kuch unke liye ..plus u inevitably write well abt them ..fir dekh :D
23/6/06 12:20 PM
[thelostcause] :). Nice. Do we not, then, write for the hoi polloi? And are we not the hoi polloi orselves?
[grain saint] I've been visiting your blog, dude, how will you get the comments if you don't write something new? Nice idea, lekin life mein fite hai. I don't want people to think they have a free seat to a good view of the inside of my head, even if it means foregoing the pleasures of writing on some of my favourite topics. :D
23/6/06 12:45 PM
arey baba, i know u well enough to know it was funny and sarcastic and not serious and all that...i did mention it smwhere didn't i?
Just that I was in a weird mood in the morning, and had a feeling that the humour here had got slightly too repetitive to be light. Hell, I can take back my words if you want to, but then why should I? You can always delete the comment:D
And why can't people take my sarcasm in the right spirit?
I do my lord trust me. Have had enough experience you may say...:D
"For our own sake..."? Says who?
I do. You can disagree, and they'd still be two perfectly valid personal opinions.
And , okay, nice poem
Thanks:P
You are hereby excused from the category of people I refuse to accept criticism from
Yeyyyyyyyyyy
..and my favourite colour isn't pink, but that was a cheap one to make it rhyme :P
It's not even red, though, barring when I'm in some particular moods(remember?). It's more like blue and black..
P.S. Disclaimer: Pls take everything written in a light spirit. I dont want wars and misunderstandings all over again:D
P.P.S. I kind of like writing looong comments after a long time.
P.P.P.S. I kind of liking conversations in comments too :P
and it's good for your comment count:P
23/6/06 1:09 PM
Returned to see ur reaction!! Was as expected...
must say i found the comments very interesting.. guess there's something in what u said about comments spawning conversations adn ideas and blogs and further comments etc..
(pardon me if i got the sequence wrong though)
and keep blogging
23/6/06 2:22 PM
Hmm, interesting post, I must say. Anyhow, I guess you have already got enough comments, and I dont have anything new to add. All I can say is: Keep blogging - for yourself, and for people like us (taru, arpit, thelostcause et al), who drop in comments on any thing that you write! Lol.
PS: Your poetry isn't all that bad.
:)
23/6/06 3:08 PM
I also think that I think of more imaginative things when I'm talking rather than writing.
Feedback on that in 10 days :P
23/6/06 9:58 PM
there is a setting in blogger which allows you to send mails to blogger which will be published as posts.. if you feel stil feel you write better mails that is..
24/6/06 1:29 PM
>>>...I'm Robert Frust, remember?
that was hilarious..sorta like calvin
Whatever your intention was while writing this post...doesn't matter...its fun to see you getting worked up abt something...i may be wrong but you write best when you're frustrated...most of the posts on Bhoot say so...
25/6/06 2:52 PM
who's write comments if u stop replying!
26/6/06 4:26 PM
@phoenix
Lol. I ve been checking for a reply since 3 days.
:)
26/6/06 6:47 PM
[phoenix] Smaller comments, please! Do I really need to reply to all this? I don't disagree, just like to take extreme positions sometimes. Hate being reasonable all the time. Of course I remember 'red' and your memorable explanation. Some day I'll write a story using that as a key plot element! :)
Don't care much for the comment count, I have a visit counter now, and no one can evade that. Ha ha. :D
[arpit] I will, I will if you keep visiting. Thanks for the encouragement.
[tapasya] Interesting it certainly was, whether one likes it or not :).
[djk] Now I have performance anxiety.
[kd] I do, long time, what's up?
[vivek] Glad you saw that. People miss my best ones. They missed the A, B, C too. I write best when I'm frustrated? Man, that hurts! :| *stiff upper lip*
[phoenix, tapasya] Here I am, Mesdemoiselles, at your service.
26/6/06 7:36 PM
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