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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
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
Re: The Future of Poetry
Hi Denny, In this particular thread, in the short exchange between you and MaryAnn, I tend to be closer to your opinion than to MaryAnn's. But I can't just stop with that. Contemporary poetry, whatever else may be said about its inherent worth (and simply because many people don't read it doesn't mean at least some of it isn't worthwhile), isn't ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 15, 2009