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Walking tightropes is my specialty, cherie...
...which is preferable to my getting angry at someone like I sometimes used to, believe me. Yes, I saw that response you wrote elsewhere. But C/t, didn't MaryAnn just ask NoStar ''why didn't you tell me writing limericks was so easy?'' (It really isn't, but she'll catch on.) That doesn't sound to me like someone who can't and won't write poems at ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 15, 2009
Why not respect MA's alleged wishes?
Because I think she underestimates herself as a potential poet for no good reason. Let me give you an analogy. There are a lot of pretty decent musicians out there (my late mother having been one of them) who are ''tone deaf'', requiring the backup of an instrument to stay on pitch. I don't have that problem; I'm my own pitch pipe. It's other ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 15, 2009
But C/t., it was a START...
...and maybe that's what's important? NoStar's recent chain limericks were the best I've ever seen from him, and considering what he's done heretofore, that's really saying something. But for whatever reason, MaryAnn is still new at writing poetry of any kind, and her way of thinking seems more geared toward a particular kind of analysis. With ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 15, 2009