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I Am (repost - serenity's challenge) |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA 
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I am lost and foundering without my rhyme. I wonder how you write free verse. I hear iambics in my mind. I see rhyming, miming, words in timing. (oops!) I want to structure each of them I am lost and foundering without my rhyme. I pretend to let words freely flow I feel the need to write a sonnet. I touch more hearts with my pantoums. I worry not when penning villanelles I cry no tears when quilling paradelles (oops!) I am lost and foundering without my rhyme. I understand we each have styles to write. I say that this should surely be all right (oops!) I dream pentameter at night (darn!) I try to write in free verse, but I can't. I hope to meter my next quatrain I am lost and foundering without my rhyme. |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
this was onno the best challenges ever yuh and of course you Nan did it well |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
I feel lost most of the time also when I drift away from the fundamentals, this is an excellent piece, Nan. "Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Braveheart Kathleen |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
HA! I found you! BTTT! |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Nan, I don't think you'll ever be lost at anything Love you and your poetry. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Nan...I have to second Seyemore on this  You lost? Never!Love you and this poem too What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compaired to what lies within us. [url] http://www.angelfire.com/pa/OriginalMinds/index.html |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Nan, I could see how this could be a problem for you *laughs*. Loved it. VERY VERY tres chic, or more aptly TIC(tongue in cheek) Kethry Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen. |
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Lighthousebob Member Elite
since 2000-06-14
Posts 4725California |
 It seems that those silly rhymes just keep slipping out so you must be a poet of which there's no doubt. (darn) Hey, just keep trying.... I know you'll do it! ...sighing. Love ya, Bob <>< |
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CocoBaci Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 3043 |
Nan, I enjoyed reading your reply to Serenity's challenge... You pegged the feelings marvelously well dear PoetFriend... |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Evening Nan, I must agree with most that you could never be lost. Perhaps lose your way for a little, but never lost. Excellent reply to the challenge. BC |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
wonderful poetic reply..*s ~Wynter "The worst prison would be a closed heart". ...Pope John Paul II |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Nan~ You are a lighthouse to others - you don't get lost ! ! Just keep thinking - winking - and blinking. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Daniel J D Senior Member
since 2000-10-01
Posts 1471Hillcrest, Queensland, Australia |
Nan, Great work and wonderful reply to such a challenge. Respond to my call and let the waves of my heart fill your life with the wonders of love (Daniel J D) |
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LoveBug
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Member Elite
since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
Nan, everything you write is so fantastic, it doesn't matter if you stick to the rules! Challenge well met, my friend. "Where there is great love there are always miracles" -Cather "Love heals everything, and love is all there is"- Zukav |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Delightful, Nan, one of my favorites! Denise |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Yes, you am  |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
i well remember this one and i remembered i wondered bless her for being so adequate with rhyme!! while lesser me will have to be contented with writing free verse...i hope someday those rhymes will come and consume my mind..sigh |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Nan, "Lost and foundering"? If you are lost, it is in your ocean of vocabulary. But I did enjoy the humor Fun to read, coming from you Liz |
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Cerenity Member Elite
since 2000-02-16
Posts 2637Escondido-California |
Hi Nan, Wonderful and I wish I had some of that structure, you are never lost, your right here were you belong, a passions poet. Love, Cerenity "God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist. We have to be reminded that He exist!" (Writer Unknown) |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
My most humble thanks to each and every one of you very special folks who took the time to read and enjoy...God Bless...  |
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Alwye
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Member Elite
since 1999-06-16
Posts 3850In the space between moments |
You can write by the rules far better than a lot of us here...in my opinion, do what you're good at! And you are probably the best I've ever seen when it comes to that. Keep up the wonderful poetry because I love to read it! *Krista Knutson* I'm a slow dying flower In a frost-killing hour The sweet turning sour and untouchable... -Natalie Merchant |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
My dreams are dreams...I only wish I could write the way you do, Nan. Much respect here for your skills as well as the wonderful writing you do. Now, if only I could rhyme...and all those other "things" you spoke of... jwesley |
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