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Skyfyre
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since 1999-08-15

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0 posted 2002-09-13 03:45 AM

Just curious.

Myself, I look for names of authors I know and like. Basically anything posted by one of these persons gets read.

Then I look for odd or interesting titles.

You?

Kielo
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since 2002-02-11

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1 posted 2002-09-13 03:47 AM

Actually, I do the same thing. I look for authors I enjoy reading, then I go by titles, then I read the ones that have no replies.

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

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Purgatorial Incarceration

2 posted 2002-09-13 04:15 AM

didn't you already ask this question?

Marshalzu

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Lurking

3 posted 2002-09-13 02:42 PM

Poets I've read, interesting titles and new poets then I look for the poems with 0 or 1 replies and reply as I just hate the thought that a poem might get lost in the depths without someone reading it and I know what a blow it can be not to get any replies to something that you really feel is some of your best work

Andrew

"I still feel the pain in my heart, what once was pure is now diluted" - Biffy Cylro

Skyfyre
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since 1999-08-15

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Sitting in Michael's Lap

4 posted 2002-09-13 06:06 PM

Chris, I may have, but as you well know I do a complete core dump every 6 months or so.

As such, I can say that no, I haven't asked this (in the last 6 months).

Pbthtthhtt!

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

5 posted 2002-09-13 08:48 PM

ROTF...give him some attitude...

How do I browse? Sometimes I pick a key word, just to see what others have written on. By reading them, I find myself searching to be inspired in a vein not yet written about. Sometimes I feel successful, sometimes I feel like I've added yet another page on the same subject.

Sometimes I browse by author...

sometimes...I just read through the archives....

brian madden
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ireland

6 posted 2002-09-18 06:16 PM

Well first I go by author, then titles.
I don't spend as much time as I used to here, so these days I am more selective in my reading, if they are poet I am not familar with I go by title and also the no. of replies. If they have a low no. of replies (i hate seeing poems ignored in the rush of forum traffic) I will read and reply if I like the poem.

Too early for the rainbow, too early for the dove These are the final days, this is the darkness, this is the flood
L cohen

cherish
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since 2001-03-25

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swimming in fairy floss...........

7 posted 2002-09-19 04:57 AM

usually its just a logical progression from top to bottom...but I have my favourites, and if I have no time, then I check those out first.

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bsquirrel

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8 posted 2002-09-19 12:52 PM

I search a word that interests me in the archives, and then read all the poems I can in that vein until my eyeballs decide they'd rather lay against the keyboard than remain in my face.

Mike

<--kinda like that

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