enter the fray: our reader discussion forum
The Fray Browse by Tags
Sign in
  
Advanced
All Tags » poetry » Foobs

  • Re: "Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms

    Hi Foobs, What you say may well be tied into the very viewpoint that Schultz seems to express: the Reform Jewish viewpoint, if not something more liberal still. (For that or for some other reason, he may well be something of an outsider to his own people's religious tradition. It would be interesting to cross-check his C.V. and find out.) Take a ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008

  • Re: Wretched execution (right job, wrong tool)

    Interesting explanation of what you think is the problem. Maybe in my case, the problem is that I write like I read and I read like I write. Either way, I get almost as puzzled as you at what we get on Tuesdays. Wretched execution, eh? Why then is the language so relatively elegant of itself? That's worth thinking about. It's as if the condemned ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 22, 2008

  • Re: Quoth the Raven, "Nevergood"

    What I said elsewhere notwithstanding, you must've really thought this week's offering to be slime if your own response to it was so half-hearted in form and content. If ever there were a Tuesday Offering worthy of razor-sharp response, this one was. In my opinion, ''Hermit'' is pretty interesting prose turned into half-baked poetry. Some weeks ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 22, 2008

  • P.S.

    I liked your sonnet! :)
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008

  • Re: A Portrait of the Artist...

    Foobs: There are things in the world, that when cut right in two(like a rock) give two things like you started out with;but I don't recommend that we try it with youas we'll get zero 'yous' even if we don't miss. So could we cut the stone into small enough bits(with a knife, one would think, that was terribly sharp)that the next little slice ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 3, 2008