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Post by judih on Jul 8, 2021 9:06:29 GMT -5
I'm asking because although I continue to write daily haiku, I also drift into slightly more verbose pieces (perhaps even up to 10 lines!). What about you?
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Post by Cenacle on Jul 8, 2021 9:36:28 GMT -5
I guess it would depend on what kind of poetry one writes. If it is responding to the current world of people and events, it might shift toward COVID, maybe toward the social justice debates going on intensely now.
My poetry for awhile has been deep in its own world-building mythopoeia, which does not track to current events. So, not really, in topic or form, I'd say.
On the other hand, my fixtion and prose has been very much mixed up at times into reacting to COVID. I would find it hard not to respond to the past year in some form!
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Post by goldenmyst on Jul 8, 2021 18:52:23 GMT -5
Though I read the news and react emotively my writing reflects a more bubble world. I don't write about Covid. However, lately, I've been allowing my mind to trip in strange and Dada ways. Don't know if that is Covid or just my joy having moved to a more livable space in my old university area.
John
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Post by goldenmyst on Jul 8, 2021 19:28:36 GMT -5
It just occurred to me that at the outset of Covid, I wrote a romance prose piece that involved Covid and a waitress I had, and still have, affection for. So back then it did influence my writing. But as time passed I sunk back into my personal mythos.
John
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Post by foolforaclient on Jul 9, 2021 5:08:23 GMT -5
Covid *sigh* don't think I'm ready to stab at it...yet. Too much of a gaping divide in the current social landscape at the moment. Quite a thrill to be back here. Yeah, I have missed this place, indeed! *smiles and hugs*
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Post by agrimmeer on Jul 9, 2021 22:09:52 GMT -5
During covid, there were a few weeks in a row when I never spoke aloud, and so I kinda forgot how to talk to people in person. The nature of the era allowed me to slow down, reflect, observe the world more, and the written creations changed a tad along the same lines. And I also sometimes wrote about the era itself.
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Post by sasha on Aug 3, 2021 9:59:58 GMT -5
Well... since you asked...
I think some of my writing has gotten angrier - fueled by (among other things) increasing disdain & impatience with the science denial that's flourished during the pandemic. It's always been there, but I can't remember it being so strident & widespread. Anti-vaxxers, Unite! Anti-maskers, Stand Up for your Rights! It ain't about public health, it's about our right to shit in the public water supply! All Hail Mark Zuckerberg for so generously handing out soapboxes & megaphones to the under-informed!
Sorry. But there it is.
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Post by agrimmeer on Aug 3, 2021 15:22:44 GMT -5
Your anger makes sense to me, Sasha. Denying science has never been more immediately & obviously deadly. With climate-science denial, we have a deadly outcome there too, but more of a slow burn, compared to the 4,235,599 covid deaths in the last 17 months.
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Post by sasha on Aug 3, 2021 15:53:11 GMT -5
As of today, 613K covid deaths in the US alone, per the CDC - some 4,240K world-wide. The creationists & flat-earthers are just amusing (if a bit cringe-worthy), but the climate- and covid-deniers are hell-bent on ensuring our extinction. And maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing for the planet.
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Post by volkov on Aug 3, 2021 18:05:51 GMT -5
Well... since you asked... I think some of my writing has gotten angrier - fueled by (among other things) increasing disdain & impatience with the science denial that's flourished during the pandemic. It's always been there, but I can't remember it being so strident & widespread. Anti-vaxxers, Unite! Anti-maskers, Stand Up for your Rights! It ain't about public health, it's about our right to shit in the public water supply! All Hail Mark Zuckerberg for so generously handing out soapboxes & megaphones to the under-informed! Sorry. But there it is. I'm seeing the same thing you are, but personally I've gone from angry to just exhausted. I'm so tired of waking up and seeing the next idiotic thing people are objecting too that is going to bring harm to everyone. (I've also been very tired the last 4 years of waking up to the next idiotic thing that had come out of the Cheeto-colored occupant of the White House. But that's a whole other kettle of fish.) I'm outraged-out, and angered-out. I'm just tired now.
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