How many poems have you written so far?

I have written a lot of chinese poem,it is unreasonable and image i loved poem,some times it can clean you heart rush your mind.haha English poem is also ok, by some situation it is unbelieveable,so deep but means well. one chinese guy 'msn of mine' jackhan.net.cn@hotmail.com.

Poetry is neither hard or easy. But inspirations make it easier. That is if you write poetry for fun/hobby. But if you're doing it for work, that is a different story. You must always have something to take the words from... experiences, emotions, ideals... all about life and teachings. I haven't counted how many poems I've written so far, maybe just nearly a hundred.

I'm too busy being a writer to actually count all the stuff I've written..meh. Poetry can feel "natural" to write and one may find a personal circle of friends as a supportive audience, but to truly gain mass appeal is not totally "easy"...poetry to me should always be something personal for not only the writer, but each new reader as well and open to interpretation. There are loads of good riting workshops out there for poetry Zoetrope.com has a poetry section..good site, some liteary "stuffy" folks hanging in the poetry wings though in my wild opinion.

I have published more than 10 poems at poetry.com but I plan to publish a compilation with some proverbs and quotations at lulu.com where I publish some books. I am a Christian, a child of God, baptized into Christ on October 1, 1989 and I belong to the Church of Christ founded and headed by Christ as shown in Acts Chapter 2. I am given the gift of knowledge and understanding Bible Greek and I translate the Word of God from Greek to English PLAINLY - Greek word into its English equivalent with additional words for grammar purposes written in italics so that readers may delete them when they so desire. I have already published GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS (Greek-English), THE WILL New Testament (Greek to English), ELEMENTS of SALVATION, The Right Way, GOD, ORIGIN, TRANSFER into PERFECTION, GREEK-ENGLISH (Grammar & Vocabulary), WORDS in THE WILL New Testament, and others shown at http://www.lulu.com/arseniajoaquin I have seen the versions being circulated worldwide and they are generally admitted to be 80% NOT translations. My translations are 99.99% translations and I see the truth, beauty, and sweetness of the Word of God. I hope these books could also help people understand the Word of God and be saved. Some copies are sold and I hope that more will be sold when the books are placed on the Global Distribution Service. I expect a lot of money to come from the books so I donated THE WILL New Testament (Greek to English) to the Alpha Omega Seniars Intl Foundation, Inc. for senior citizens, widows, orphans, disabled, poor intellectuals, etc. I'm also donating at least 20% of the proceeds from other books that I publish. As soon as I finish GENESIS TO DEUTERONOMY (Greek-English), I intend to donate it to the Church.

I guess it's easy to write poetry. But it's hard to write good poetry. Or at least, if it's not hard it takes quite a bit of dedication, revision and consideration. I've probably written thousands of poems...but lots of them are trash. They're largely what I wrote before I really developed my craft. My work over the past three years has far out shined anything else I wrote in the decade preceding that. But, content and quality grows with age and experience, I think. So...how many poems have I written that I wouldn't be ashamed to show anyone? Maybe a hundred, perhaps two hundred.

You find it easy to write poetry? You may be a natural at it. But what sorts of poem do you do? Rhymed ones? Free verse? Sonnets or the formally structured types? Or the poesy that passes for poetry these days? For me a poem is not difficulty/easy. Rather if it works or doesnt. If it rings true or is just cymbals. If its airy nothing, have i given it a habitation and name--as Will the Bard, my mentor, does. What is difficult about poetry, in my experience, is not imagining the garden but creating a real toad in it.

I keep all of my poems written in a journal type book. I write the title at the top of the page and then assign a number for that poem. I've written over 100 poems at this point in time. I know I have more that are not included in that book, I just don't know the exact amount because most of my earlier work is lost.

I totally disagree. I find poems almost impossible to write. I'm glad there's prose out there for me to do, because I've writen so few poems. I did write a haiku the other day for my cat, Oliver - haiku's are about the only poems I CAN write & I don't do that often! Oliver the Great! Bottle baby just can't wait! Growing up to soon.