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A good quote from the new King of the PoemFray
''It's impossible to have reasonable discourses when sycophants and hypocrites rule the day''
Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 15, 2009
Ted, The band never sounded better...
As the Titanic sank. Or as the great Victor Borge said, ''They started by playing Chopin, but soon they began to Liszt.''
Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 15, 2009
If that were true, Cat
you would not still be here.
Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 15, 2009
Un-moribunding the PoemFray
That's a prescription that the patient will refuse like an alcoholic who will not face up to his problem.
Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 15, 2009
moribund
The word for the day is moribund: Main Entry: mor·i·bund Pronunciation: \ˈmȯr-ə-(ˌ)bənd, ˈmär-\ Function: adjective Etymology: Latin moribundus, from mori to die — more at murder Date: circa 1721 1 : being in the state of dying : approaching death2 : being in a state of inactivity or obsolescence Thanks to Merriam Webster ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 15, 2009
Silly Poem---I'm so tired
I'm so tiredThat I'm wiredAnd I cannot fall asleep.I'm so sleepyThat I'm weepyDon't want to hear another peep.
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 26, 2009
P.S.: A textbook case of archetypes in action
It occurs to me that my response, in what I said and how I said it, is a textbook example of Jungian psychology (via John Beebe's theory of archetypes ) in action. Here an ENFP engages his supportive, decision-making capacity based on personal values in a Good Parent role (that's the archetype): a role with a particular tone of voice that brooks ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
Lesbian eisgesis is more like it
That last line especially, Gretchen and NoStar, is not reminiscent of lesbian curiosity (with its potential for arousal), but of feeling ''un-woman-ed'' in the presence of a superior heterosexual specimen, just as a man can feel ''unmanned'' in a parallel presence of his own gender. I've been there and done that, as noted elsewhere. There is no ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
Re: Erica Ehrenberg's "Exquisite body' as a limerick
Well, NoStar, I guess when my parody gene's stuck in the ditch, all I have to do is read one of your limerical rewrites and it gets pushed back on the road. Stand by for a full-throttle HOTR parody! wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
Re: "The Most Careless Girl in the Class . ." By Erica Ehrenberg
WOW. I like this poem!!!! I like it more than any Tuesday Poem I can remember in a long time. More in my Front Post to come...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009

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