My Poetry Forum

Welcome to My Poetry Forum, If you enjoy poetry, this forum is the ideal place for you to read new poems, meet the authors and improve your own poetry, by judging and discussing the poetry of others. I have found that many other poetry forums have become cluttered, standardised, unfriendly and not particularly personal, so my aim with this forum is to provide a simple personalised environment where users can get to know each other and thereby facilitate a more pleasant experience. Facilities exist for you to upload your works and then critique and be critiqued by other users, competitions will also be run. You will need to register an account to gain access to the forum options, which become available from the sidebar once you are logged in. The orange, highlighted areas can be accessed without logging in, giving you a taste of what lies in store.

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I have been awarded the job of advancing the development of My Poetry Forum. I am here to add more functionality to the existing excellence of this site, to moderate maltreatment and obscenity and to listen to; and act upon complaints directed to me by you, the poet. Furthermore, to provide and realize a pleasant environment whereby poets can develop their skills without being disheartened by jesters and deliberate-abusers that add no value to your skill as poet.
I will add a section wherein future development endeavors will be listed. Please provide constructive feedback and let your voice be heard.

Please note: If your critique on a fellow poet’s work has been written to deliberately counteract the overall rating of that work or displays purposeful abhorrence towards the poet, your rating will not be applied to the overall rating of the poet’s work, and you will run the risk of being banned from this site.

Any complaints, queries, comments or suggestions can be directed to me at sacred@mypoetryforum.com. Hope to hear from you soon…
Regards, Sacred

Greetings to all users, both old and new. MPF has now entered it's third year of existance and is going as strongly as ever. I have added a bunch of new quotations and a few little changes here and there. I hope the new year holds good things in store for all the users of MPF. Till later, see you all on the flip side!

Hello again everybody! Since the last update I have made tons of new aesthetic and functional changes to the site. I would like to thank everybody for their continued input regarding improvements to this site. I beleive that if you have a look around at many of the bigger poetry forums out there you will see that this site matches and in most cases supercedes them in terms of value. Anyway enough bragging. For those of you who missed out on the MPF get together, perhaps we'll see you next time 'round, we had a lovely time and I met some great people. So go explore the changes, and let me know what you think. Until we meet again...

Okay here is the much spoken of final date: Saturday, 23 July, 12:00 at Moyo in Melrose Arch, JHB. To get there simply take the Atholl Oaklands offramp from the M1 and Melrose Arch will be on the right via Melrose Blvd. This is going to be a very informal thing where people can meet each other and discuss or arange any future events. Anyone interrested in coming must please email me, (preferably a week in advance), and I'll let you know which table it'll be at, once booked.

Hi all, just a few updates,
 
I have received plenty of feedback regarding further improvements to the site and would like to thank everyone for their suggestions. I have applied and am looking into many of them.
 
There is overwhelming support for a MPF bundle, I am certainly going to take this further in the months to come.
 
Two changes have been made with this update, firstly poem submissions now cost 400 credits and adding a favorite or forum message reply will cost 50 credits. This has been done to futher improve the poem to comment ratio.

I have noticed that occasionally users post a message, instead of a poem, this inspired the notion of a Forum Messaging Service. When the need arrises to say something to the other users you should post your thoughts not as a new poem but by using the new Forum Messaging Service. Each posted message can be commented on thus forming a new thread of communication based on the original message. In this way users can have debates, arrange get-togethers, competitions or whatever else. To make it work I would recommend that people check for new forum messages whenever using MPF. A new message can be posted for 600 credits, posting replies to messages is free, Cheers for Now!

It has come to my attention that there have been some heated exchanges in recent months regarding some very contentious issues, while I encourage this sort of debate I think that users should hold back a little and not use this forum as a tool for mudslinging as it seems has happened on the rare occasion, the emphasis of this forum is and always has been on poetry and the debate which may arise from it, please don't lose sight of that.

I have fixed a few bugs, most notable of which is the ability to browse poems by their rating, this was not working in the past as I'm sure you have noticed. It is also now possible to see the credit rating of other users by looking at their user profiles.

• Users: 469
• Poems: 1176
• Comments: 7971
• Comments to Poems: 6.8

Hello everyone, I did a bit of analysis on the site statistics to depict the growth rate of the webpage as you can see on the right it has been very good. Click on the image to get an enlarged view. Also I'd like to make a request that people email me any professional poems that they think are good enough to be added to the list of weekly poems.

I hope everyone is doing well and keeping warm while enjoying some of the many excellent contributions made on the forum. I have been truly astounded by the quality and variation in poetry available here. The site has been growing in popularity at a steady pace since it's inception and now boasts over 200 poems and 1000 comments! The 5:1 ratio of comments to poetry is truly outstanding. I attribute this to the many people here who are honestly interested in the appreciation of fine poetry. On a more serious note it has come to my attention that a person or persons might have been accessing the forum and abusing other users via their e-mail addresses. These addresses are an optional piece of information and users are free to set false addresses. If you so choose this can be done by editing your user profiles. However I think that accepting the reality of a small negative fringe element and blockling senders of abusive emails by configuring your mail programs is a better idea. One should not take much heed of such people in any case. Since a login is required to view e-mail addresses, users are protected from "spammer spiders", so spam should not pose a problem. Please report the sender addresses of abusive emails to me and I'll see what can be done. I hope this small incident has not put a negative spin on the overwhelming positivity which has flowed from the forum.

Wow, okay plenty of enhancements have been made to MPF, let's start at the top.

The MPF Top 100: The MPF Top 100 is a new listing, which has been set up with the aim of identifying the best poetry on the forum. These poems could perhaps become part of a South African (sorry international users!) amateur poetry bundle. See the entry in the Help Page for more on how the MPF Top 100 Listing is structured.
My Favorites: This is a new facility which allows you to create a list of your favorite poems, allowing for easy access to your favorite poems. You can add a poem to your list by clicking the 'Add to Favorites' button when viewing a poem.
Weekly Poems: I have been adding poems to the array of weekly poems but need another 15 to fill it up. Please email me any of your favourite, well-known poems.

There are some more new features to come in the following months so keep an eye open, Cheers!

I have started a thread in the MPF bulletin board regarding a meeting for members of this forum. If people are interested they should express this under the MPF community thread. The onus will be on the members to arrange such a get together, if enough interest is shown. Once an arrangement is made I will post the details on the front page.

I thought that in light of what had come to pass it would be fitting to include a link to Marne's Poems. My sympathies.

Hello again to everyone! I am pleased to say that the bulletin board is now pretty much finished and should be working much more smoothly than the previous beta version. I encourage everyone to try it out! Note that when you add a message to a tree, if you wish to see it, you will need to refresh the tree youself by collapsing and expanding it. Let me know about any difficulties you have while using it.

Cheers for now!

I aplogise for my frequent absence from the forum, but this is due to my involvement in studies away from home where my internet access is very limited, but I assure everyone that the page is still being maintained. A cookie bug has recently been fixed. The number of poems on the page is approaching 100 now. Thanks to all contributors, I hope the long term users are still enjoying themselves and that we'll be seeing more of the new users.

I have made a few backend updates to the webpage, and fixed a bug which might have dissalowed access to some users on a LAN router.

Have a good Valentine's Day.

I am glad to see that the forum seems to be becoming more popular, with about one new user arriving each day! I have read some great poetry, thanks to all the people who have contibuted thus far. If anyone is interrested in exchanging links (to better search engine ranking) please let me know. I am also eager to hear about any comments or suggestions regarding the site so give me a shout, finally may the new year bring plenty of inspiration.

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Today is a very special day because after many weeks of hard work mypoetryforum.com is finally ready for launch. I hope it has a long and happy future ahead of it so CHEERS!

The most important aspect of getting constructive commentry on your poetry is to take the time to evaluate the poetry of other users, people are much more likely to reciprocate, when they see that you have taken the time to do so with regards to their work. Users are encouraged to make use of the requests fascility. Happy reading!

At last count the number of poems exeeded 60, with a total of over 200 comments. I am also glad to see the forum is growing and attracting a range of international users. I think the level of poetry submitted by all users thus far is of a very good quality. There are some users whose submissions I think are exceptional, notably the poems of:

•      Lollo from Botswana,
•      Patrejon and Dastrix from S.Afr
•      and Saurabh from India.