I wouldn't want to see blog postings restricted (as suggested in a previous discussion topic) but I feel it would be better if poets excercised some self-restraint.

I can't see the point of loading up five or six poems one immediately after the other.

One at a time, one per day, please, or one every few days is better. That gives others a chance to read the postings, and maybe comment on them, rather than feeling fatigued by that most unpoetic modern phenomenon - information overload.

I concur with Steve ; )
Occasionally though if two or three are posted at a time it is not a problem... just needs to be occasional...

I totally agree with Steve - he has voiced what I wanted to say -

Hear-hear!
Cx

Don't quite understand the argument here. This is a site with over 450 active contributors. If they all wrote only a poem a week that would amount to er....a lot of poems a day. So what? Information overload? Nobody is being asked to edit this stuff and it takes just a millisecond to see whether a poem has any quality or not.
Is it because the people who do post blogs see their own work rapidly relegated down the list and want their full 15 minutes of fame? Well, hey...that's democracy. If you open a large municipal dump it's going to rapidly fill up with rubbish....occasionally you may be able to find the odd gem in there.
Let people post as much as they want. Those suffering from textual diarrhoea will reveal themselves very soon to be incredibly prolific or shit or both. Can we not trust our own critical faculties on this?

siren has made me smile :)

Thank you Shoeless. And another thing....recent medical evidence has proven that Repeated Poetic Blog Posting (RPBP) can NOT actually affect one's eyesight. That was an old wive's tale put about by the Association of Prose Writers...

siren can you do anything about the hairs on the palms of my hands ??

Hairy palms can be very useful. If you shave them you will grow stubble. It won't be pretty but you will become a great rock climber...

Adding my weight to what Siren and Hairy Carole have said, I agree.

Regards
A little gem
Gus

Siren you'd better be more careful. This is the second time in as many weeks i've actually agreed with you.
As far as the prose writers blogs go, i know how difficult it is to type it out on the site system. It doesn't always copy well either from computer.

My one and only gripe at the moment in the blog section is that the same post is repeated two, three or as much as four times. Please poets. At least remove the copies. :-)

Janet.x

SIMON

"If you open a large municipal dump it's going to rapidly fill up with rubbish.."

thats great line!
It reminds me of a 'fly on wall' documentary on 80s band 'The Human League' they debate on putting just a few minutes of songs on this free magazine insert 'flexi-disc' Philip Oakey (lead singer) says "we are just going to be tempted to fill it up with rubbish, just because we can' - in other words just for the sake of filling up the whole ten minutes.

Seems the creative process needs its 'rubbish dumps'
I'm guilty of it :-( sometimes you need to throw a poem out there...see how it lands.

I'm talking on the whole about performance poetry, some of my rubbish ended up being the most edible landfill in poetic slams, in some cases the odd win, if not posted, would never seen the light of day.

I'm in the verbal splurging camp


not strictly relevant (Sorry Steve Reagan) but it jogged my memory Siren!

i agree with pete there - in the blog like this - sometimes you can easily do a overkill on it when you are posting everyday or seemingly everyday.. i write enough certainly where i could fill up the blog a lot than what i do.. i decide against it often as i want people to not think oh god - it's him again - doesn't he ever stop - lol

Actually, obviously I would like to voice something about an issue I am currently ongoing with, but at this moment in time I'm undergoing a verbiosity crisis due to an unscheduled download of uploads so I'll bloody well shut up before I bore anybody rigid.