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  • 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: Sophie Cabot Black's "Biopsy" as a limerick

    I haven't read ''Biopsy'' itself yet, but I agree: this is top-notch as a chain limerick, certainly the best I have ever seen you do. Perhaps ironically, it is driven not by your usual sense of parody, but of pathos -- even in your introduction to it. Kudos to you as well. wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 14, 2009

  • Re: "In the Cafe" as a limerick

    Almost any contemporary poem, I'd say. And when one so distills it, one often reaches the inane heart of the original -- a heart that might not be so easily spotted any other way. As I said, I don't mind the length or the style of ''In the Cafe''. It's the inanity at its heart that I mind. (cracks his literary knuckles) You're nat'rally tired ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009

  • A period?

    I hope that means something good, not neutral or bad!
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 5, 2009

  • My turn (from my front-page review)...

    I suppose I could argue that form(Were it stricter: some classical norm)Would improve this as such...But (no doubt) it's too muchTo expect those near death to conform. wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 2, 2009

  • "Ocean": short review and limerick

    Before I read this poem, I ''cheated''. I read the limerical thread on the poem (started by denny), and then islandtime's thread on the poem. (Give me a break, I just got back from London.) After reading it I wondered if the poet (or rather his protagonist) was thinking of John Denver's song, Goodbye Again. It has a ''catchy'', if melancholy ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 2, 2009