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netsky
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since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

0 posted 2005-04-02 02:59 PM

an outmoded gender-noun recalled fondly for its savor

I do not lament lost aviatrix
nor Holly-wholesome pastiche actress
But come French chocolate negresse;
that maiden minds my heart to miss
that sole delicious of all tresses:
sweetly melding poetesses

[This message has been edited by netsky (04-02-2005 08:12 PM).]

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2005-04-03 07:40 PM

LOL, I never cared much for poetess

netsky
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since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

2 posted 2005-04-04 07:44 PM

To take away a syllable makes woman man? I think not!
Poetess is today called "poet" but minus
half the poetry harked up by female sweet
and soft tress carress.

po it
po eh teh sez

you po'or -IT-, you.
Gloria Steinem lopped off your tresses
sigh!

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2005-04-04 11:06 PM

LOL, by any name, I am the same.
No, I am not a rose.
I write from the heart and the gut, and occasionally, from other bodily parts. LOL.
But I am never sure if what I write will really be called poetry by some readers. Lack of structured rhyme schemes, sometimes lack of ANY structure. LOL.
Free verse, spontaneous combustion style. Critiquing is always accepted, and though few ever critique my stuff, it doesn't mean it is 'clean.' On any given day, I am sure someone could rip apart 99% of what I post. And I have both written and read some that probably belong in a shredder.
In spite of this, I shall make an attempt...next time, to offer a critique.
*sigh* Time to dust off the old thinking cap.

majnu

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since 2002-10-13

Posts 1088
SF Bay Area

4 posted 2005-04-05 01:25 AM

personally i also dislike the unification of sex in our language.

funny bit.

-majnu
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Timid thoughts be not afraid. I am a Poet.

Michelle_loves_Mike

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since 2003-12-20

Posts 1189
Pennsylvania

5 posted 2005-04-05 08:08 AM

I agree with manju,,,,my pet peeve gender burb?

hero becomes heroine,,,

what a dig,,,,lol

netsky
Member

since 2005-03-29

Posts 148
Miami

6 posted 2005-04-05 03:29 PM

Ouch.. had not thought of that horrible gender noun until now.  Ugh it is

Hey... so, in the late nineteeth century, when there were countless millions of regular people addicted to opiates, along came a major German pharmaceutical company with a new, super-morphiate which they trade named "Heroin".

Hmmm... The word, "heroine" predates that by ??? how many years? (many years, certainly)

So.. it -just now occurs to me that "heroin" likely plays off from "heroine".

Morphine was the great deliverer from pain back then, as today it is in the guise of Rush's drug of choice, "hydrocodone"  Morphine was a heroic drug before it enslaved the guiless user.

"Heroin" was even, uh ,better at pain relief and power to addict. So there, if my surmise is correct (who can know, though?) the taint on "heroine" seems doubled.  Ugh!

[This message has been edited by netsky (04-05-2005 04:08 PM).]

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