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Re: Another Pepsi challenge
MaryAnn: We've faced such Self-Important Poems and their Self-Important Authors all too often here on Poems Fray, much more so in the past than currently, but all too frequently when Mr. Pinsky has put up. Rabbit, a few weeks ago when Robert Pinsky presented his monthly classic poem, he was available to all posters for, I think, four whole ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 23, 2009
Re: Congratulations - Mary Ann
Hey, very cool, Denny and NoStar. I'd like to see that awarded limerick, if you don't mind tipping me off when it's presented. Congratulations from my end also, MaryAnn. I just looked up NoStar's limericks on the OEDILF...at least the ones deemed worthy of a general audience! Hmm... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
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
I'm indeed concerned...
Hi MaryAnn, The events of this last week or two have left me with a certain sense of morbid fascination. Poems Fray sometimes becomes a real case study in personality conflict, if nothing worse. Yes indeed, I'm concerned -- concerned that some of us understand each other so little and get offended accordingly, and that some go so far as to spread ...
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: RE: Pepsi Challenge
Hi MaryAnn, Don't let NoStar fool you. Good limericks are as hard to write as is any other good example of light verse. This one is not at all bad (only an extension of the thought into more stanzas could improve it). Maybe you've found your niche as an original poet, and only need to exercise it through practice? wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 15, 2009
British and American society (freely compared)
MaryAnn: Hi HAP, Yes, I'm sure Fenton's phrase, ''diet of worms,'' was referring not only to us mouldering in the ground, but also to the conference that tried to ban Luther from making his reforms. I'm going to use this poem in my course this fall on poetry + religion. Contemporary British poets seem to write harsher poems about religion ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 2, 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
Re: Spanish tolerance
I don't know if any of you will read this now, but if you get a chance, get a hold of the old recording by Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Musique Arabo-Andalouse (Harmonia Mundi France CD). Not only is it an excellent recording for its time, but its liner notes give a really telling summary of the cultural and religious situation at the time. Spain ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 12, 2009

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