Evocation

[ehowton]

Armed solely with your imagination
You prepare yourself for conquest
From within the confines of your psyche
You alone control the context

More wondrous than reality
As powerful your thoughts command
Truly fantastic your charge can be
Your every desire at your demand

Gird thy staff!
Cyclic preparation for war
Unhinge your mind
Batten down for more

Emotions run high
Consumed by resolution
Sealing the deal
The act itself your absolution

Teeth clamped tight in force
Moist upon your brow
Your entire body tingles
Guiding forth your prow

Mind's eye supplies the storyline
A rich and colorful tapestry
The victor of every appropriation
Affecting your own causality

Wave after wave of release
Volume above and beyond
For to give unconditionally's fulfilling
Your helmet of suppression donned

To only give pleasure to others
Your animalistic urges contained
Is much more reward than deserved
And often cannot be explained

But when you deny yourself even in dreams
Fantasies which you control
Then multiplied is your pleasure
Exponentially mitigating console

Do unto others as a rule
Expect nothing in return
Ten thousand religions speak it
Not one of them follows in turn

But experience has well taught me
Truer words were never spoken
I live a selfless existence
And my happiness remains unbroken

Comments

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Have you noticed that you get the most comments when you tell a story and the least amount when you post nothing but poetry?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Regardless of the format, I'm still telling a story.

[galinda822.livejournal.com]

You're one of the best storytellers I know. The other being Andruid.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

His are far funnier than mine. And he has great delivery!

[galinda822.livejournal.com]

I'm envious of both of you. Everytime I try to tell a story it comes out flat & boring.
I am not a good storyteller!!!

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Let me try this again. When you tell a story in the traditional way (i.e. with paragraphs and sentences and so forth) you get a lot more comments then you do with your poetry. Agree?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Mathematically, I have more traditional entries with no comments than I do poems with no comments. However, infrequently my traditional entries have 100+ comments, and while none of my poems have reached that many, based on the frequency of my poetry it would be difficult for me to ascertain an agreement with your above statement at this time.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

But if your current trend with poetry were to continue until you had as many poem-ony entries as you do traditional entries, do you think you'd see a poem-only entry with 100+comments?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes I do. And I can qualify that. Observe the pattern of the following example (all posts with 90+ comments in the last quarter):

• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/122484.html -(92 comments) <-- Does not discuss topic


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/121636.html - (145 comments) <-- Does not discuss topic


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/120425.html - (103 comments) <-- Actually discusses topic!


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/117559.html - (108 comments) <-- Mixed topical comments


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/116867.html - (167 comments) <-- Does not discuss topic


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/116325.html - (95 comments) <-- Does not discuss topic


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/114762.html - (135 comments) <-- Actually discusses topic!


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/111786.html - (97 comments) <-- Does not discuss topic


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/108774.html - (110 comments) <-- Actually discusses topic!


• http://ehowton.livejournal.com/106564.html - (91 comments) <-- Does not discuss topic

Ergo, at some point, if I continue to post poetry at the same rate, there will be comments, mostly off topic of the subject - because the majority of the comments on my non-poetry entries are that way anyway. It makes perfect sense to me.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

The thing that bothered me about my first two cross-posts was that they both got an insane number of comments, but I found most of them to be off topic. I also thought that with the way Xanga works, I had about the same amount of interaction with my adoring Xanga crowd, the differnece being that with Xanga it's spread over more blogs and people.

So we'll see. If I constanly get comments on LJ and zelch on Xanga, I might stop cross posting. But I don't want to do that until I get my LJ behaving the way I want it to and I don't think that will happen any time soon.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

until I get my LJ behaving the way I want it to and I don't think that will happen any time soon.
Why not?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Because...

S2 does not support CSS.
S1 does not support custom comment pages.

I'm not entirely happy with my S1 layout.
I hate my comment pages.
All the current CSS that is on my S1 layout works on both my entries and comment pages on Xanga and is not Xanga specific

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Pussy.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Okay, Codeslinger. Prove me wrong.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Good point. So to get back on topic, I'm curious what my poem meant to you.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I didn't read it.

I don't like poetry with very few exceptions: Rober Frost, some Emily Dickinson, a little Shakespear, The Fool's Prayer, If and The Glove and the Lions to name a few.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I didn't ask if you liked or disliked poetry. I asked what mine meant to you. The fact that you didn't read it because you "don't like" poetry speaks volumes about your character. There's many times in a man's life we must do things we dislike. That's how we learn. That's how we grow. If you only ever did the things you liked to so (and something about your current situation tells me you do) then you will always be exactly where you are right now.

[galinda822.livejournal.com]

Do you really believe he only does it for comments?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

no. I was merely making an observation.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Speaking of comments, take a look at how many you've amassed since you started post-crossing to lj. If I were you, I'd drop that gay xanga account.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I'll drop it only if you will write a program that will recursivelly go through each and every post maintaining the formatting and comments and if you can get more people that I know from Xanga to come on over.

In short, I will never give up that account because it would be akin to burning a journal of over three years.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a difference between burning your journal, and putting it in a safe place when it fills up and starting a new one. My, my aren't we the over zealous one! I'm not suggesting you erase it, rather just stop using it. It's a dead end, man, your heyday there is over. It's time to begin anew. Hold my hand and walk with me towards the light...

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

But you do realize that with the exception of snappe521 all the people on LJ are your friends first. I don't want to nor do I have time to "get into" the community on LJ.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Wake up and smell the comments - you already have!

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I guess what I meant was make friends independent of your friends as well as get into the LJ community (i.e. through the groups and so forth) like I did with Xanga.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Here's a newsflash for you: You're not exactly Mr. Popularity on xanga. I think you'll find our non-emo, less-angsty users here on lj more amenable to your style of interaction, especially if you're as pro-active here as you were on xanga.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

But you said I was never had enough audience interaction on Xanga.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

What?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

shit!

You said I never had enough interaction with my Xanga audience.

[galinda822.livejournal.com]

I'm speechless!

It really is wonderful!

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm so glad you liked it!

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Yannow,

if we keep this crazy shit up, you're going to have 100+ comments on this entry proving me wrong and they will all be off topic. How sad.

I shall shed one emo tear for you.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

You started it. Go ahead, discuss the post. I am so ready.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I read it.
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I don't get it.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I don't get it.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

I wonder at this point if you would get it even if I explained it to you.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Huh?