This isn’t Keats,
Faust, or Poe.
This isn’t Bukowski,
Hemingway, or Milton.
This is emotion,
heart, and an
overabundance of soul.
This is me. Raw.
Unrefined. Unapologetic.
Absolutely and it’s awesome!
And I think being yourself is what makes a great poet! I have given up trying to write like others and I have just called myself an “emotions poet”. There is no poetry without my heart and soul.
Exactly. It actually makes me run away instead of me pretending to understand and be impressed. 🙂 I’ll stick to the feelings and authenticity. Hugs. xxx
Yes, I couldn’t agree more. It’s one thing to appreciate the greats of the past, it’s another to try to be them. It strips us of who we really are when we do that.
Brilliant! I love unrefined. It sums up the blogging community quite well. People overflowing with emotion with so much to say. Filterless thoughts that can mean so much to the reader passing by.
I think there should be a healthy amount of ignorance in writing. Learn the basics, be inspired as you learn but develop your own style.
If it so happens to take influences that’s fine but trying to replicate what someone has already done isn’t being the truest form of you.
Be unrefined because when someone else has the privilege to see the rawest you, it’ll be your voice, not an imitation.
Haha, thank you. As I said above, it’s not a knock on anyone, just a statement that it’s good to know the great literary minds of the past, as long as we aren’t trying to be them. 😊
Thank you! It wasn’t meant to be a knock on anyone in particular. I’ve heard the argument that today’s poets should strive to be more like the greats of the past. But I disagree. If we’re all trying to be like them (whichever ones), we aren’t individuals, carving our own way like they did. We are attempting to be carbon copies, nowhere near as good as the original. So, if I’m in the wrong for knowing the old great literary minds, yet not trying to be them, then I’m happy to be wrong. 😊
Sarah Doughty 
Strong and all the better for being unapologetic you.
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I’m hopeful that everyone sees it that way. 😊 😊
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Absolutely and it’s awesome!
And I think being yourself is what makes a great poet! I have given up trying to write like others and I have just called myself an “emotions poet”. There is no poetry without my heart and soul.
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Yes, exactly! Too many poets sacrifice meaning for the sake of being cryptic or shaping their poems or giving them a rhythm or rhyme.
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I can’t do cryptic and that always made me feel so ‘un-poet’. 😄 Thanks so much, Sarah.
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When poets move beyond the metaphor and go so cryptic that I can’t follow the point of the piece, I’m lost entirely. 🤣
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Exactly. It actually makes me run away instead of me pretending to understand and be impressed. 🙂 I’ll stick to the feelings and authenticity. Hugs. xxx
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Yes, exactly. Thank you so much! 🙂
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Hugs 🙂
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Hugs to you too.
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Stand Proud!
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Indeed! 😊
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Yes! That’s why poetry is awesome – we can make it into anything we want. Really enjoying your blog so far!
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I’m honored. Thank you so much! 😊
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Well said!
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Thanks so much! 😊
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And that’s the way we like it! 🙂
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Aw thanks! I appreciate that!
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I don’t know if they do a fist pumping, whooping emoji Sarah, but I am sending you one in words anyway. Well said 🙂
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Hmm.. ✊ I usually use that one for a fist pump. 😆 Thank you!
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Thank you Sarah. I am still a dinosaur in such technical matters lol 🙂
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No worries. 😊
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Darn! And raw be raw. Real be real. We need not to be anyone, dear! ❤ ❤ ❤ love this!
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Yay! Thank you! 😊 😊 😊
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always! ❤ ❤ ❤
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You tell it, girl! Woot! 😆
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💕💕💕💕
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😀
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Love this so very much, Sarah. An ode to our very soul.
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Aw thank you! 😊
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I so love reading what you write, Sarah. It always speaks volumes.
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I appreciate that so much! 😊
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Very cool! Art is only ever any good if it’s something that is truly us, something that we truly want to write or create defiantly
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Yes, I couldn’t agree more. It’s one thing to appreciate the greats of the past, it’s another to try to be them. It strips us of who we really are when we do that.
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Brilliant! I love unrefined. It sums up the blogging community quite well. People overflowing with emotion with so much to say. Filterless thoughts that can mean so much to the reader passing by.
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I agree. And trying to be a carbon copy of someone that made a name for themselves decades or centuries ago isn’t going to help anyone.
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I think there should be a healthy amount of ignorance in writing. Learn the basics, be inspired as you learn but develop your own style.
If it so happens to take influences that’s fine but trying to replicate what someone has already done isn’t being the truest form of you.
Be unrefined because when someone else has the privilege to see the rawest you, it’ll be your voice, not an imitation.
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Yes, exactly! 😊
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Never change a thing!
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Thank you, love! 😊
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You are so welcome
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Bravo!
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Thank you!
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Love!
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Thank you! 😊
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BAM! (y)
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Haha, thank you. As I said above, it’s not a knock on anyone, just a statement that it’s good to know the great literary minds of the past, as long as we aren’t trying to be them. 😊
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I know you’re just trying to let people know:
Who you are
and
What your writing represents.
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Thank you, I really appreciate that! 😊
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It’s always my pleasure! 🙂
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Wow
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Thank you! 😊
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Love it! Loved the newsletter yesterday too by the way! Great read through and through 🙂
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Thank you so much! I’m glad you liked it! 😊
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You tell ’em Sara!
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Thank you! It wasn’t meant to be a knock on anyone in particular. I’ve heard the argument that today’s poets should strive to be more like the greats of the past. But I disagree. If we’re all trying to be like them (whichever ones), we aren’t individuals, carving our own way like they did. We are attempting to be carbon copies, nowhere near as good as the original. So, if I’m in the wrong for knowing the old great literary minds, yet not trying to be them, then I’m happy to be wrong. 😊
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I think they would be the first to be appalled by the thought that any writer should copy them instead of heed their own voice
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I’d like to think so too. I know I would tell someone to make their own voice. 😊
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