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the new poet's lament ... (please don't take this seriously or personally)
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the new poet's lament ... (please don't take this seriously or personally) |
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ma miller Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 806 |
the new poet's lament ... take your gifts and your dreams send them to Mars or Saturn's rings push the words, like newspaper print on to the screen without a wince left for hungry follower's to eat just to finish one, then a repeat don't stop to make any lasting sense keep swallowing every letter's (in)tense fill your head 'til it explodes fill your bellies to look like toads spew it back out in a garbled mess does it look like words, do confess? a little self-serving never to hurt any reader's a victim, never alert congest your thoughts 'til eyes turn red choke your senses 'til you turn dead just a warning to those who be new any word's called a phrase -- what abuse ponder your lines like a lion on prey think long and hard on what you say M.A. Miller 07.27.00 (Again, this more for myself as a reminder not to just push words out the door without THINKING first ...) My calling before me, let quill be my offering; For to be called poet, no greater gift to receive. M.A. |
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deb Junior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 44Reading, Pa., USA |
I second that! One reason I am always apprehensive about posting my "poetry!" deb |
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Sunnyone Member Ascendant
since 2000-07-06
Posts 5334Staffordshire, England |
MA.... Yes.....we all agree, and I thought this really hit the point..(one that I try to keep in mind, most of the time!!) Anyway, this was funny and is a gentle reminder to all of us, I think! Well Said!!!!! ~~ To Live is to Give ~~ |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Oh this is too rich! Well done, my new poet friend!!! and may I add, thoughful? LOL to you!!! |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Okay another word... Poignant and another profound... regards my friend, Sudhir |
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Rosebud1229 Senior Member
since 2000-04-05
Posts 1813North Carolina |
Lament to you or is that damn it! lol but your right were all tend to be sometimes quite contrite but often the sun is bright and gets in our eyes hey wait a minute that's just the gleam from this computer that is suppose to be my tutor. haha.. |
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beowulf_26 Member
since 1999-06-29
Posts 183 |
Great job. it's funny how you can sit thinking about something and then just find the answer in someone elses work by coincedance. Thanx for the words. |
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ma miller Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 806 |
thanks all for reassuring me that i'm not the only one who goes through these thought processes ... thanks again for reading ... |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Aaahh Mark no you are not the only one, and soemdays are worse than others...thanks for the reminder that this place is a privelege not a right. never say never |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
A lighthearted look at poetic accountability, well rendered. ~ Claire Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
I was new here once...I lamented a lot!!  I am enjoying the responses you're getting! |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
AHA! Yet another who resists spellcheckitis and grammarroundup because the push to please and print and post is so profoundly prodigious our senses swim in the heady aftermath... that is until we "click" on to see how it really looks after a response or two and {gasp} see error after error and wince back in shame and humiliation, O the humiliation...and even if someone said "this is good" you know they saw the horrendous typo peeking out at them and were too, too kind to render what they really thought "use your spellcheck!!!" Good stuff, MA [no REALLY] and a great reminder to us all! Sunny ~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Keller ~~~ When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ |
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ma miller Senior Member
since 2000-07-11
Posts 806 |
many thanks to all above for the responses ... i love Passions and wish only the best for its success and all the great poets here ... |
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MMoonchild Senior Member
since 2000-07-13
Posts 1715PA |
oh my this is the second or third time I saw someone call you Mark..and all along I was thinking...oh my... laughing here now..won't tell you what I was thinking..names sure can fool one can't they ~~soft smiles Maureen..by the way..enjoyed your poem as I have all other's but now this puts a different spin on it and I will have to reread some of them... Maureen |
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