their breath.

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I never thought I would see the day that someone would outpost Petersz. Well, we certainly need the boost these days.

Oh and you'll forgive our somewhat ignoring you. We tend to be overwhelmed by large quantities of simultaneously posted threads. Also, we're lazy. But stick around and you'll most likely fit right in.

I am fishing a new lake so am trying all my bait. LOL.
I know there are one or two who enjoy my posts so I tend
to think they must be terribly important and bright. Actually
the fishing analogy is closer to truth. I have around five
thousand poems of all types and when I get a response I file
them together with other like verse for later saturation. lol.
Thanks Mr. P for insights provided. tom

Actually, Peter's the terribly important and bright one. I just like what I read.

Joe

I am here to get help for my poetry and you Joe did just that
on another poem. It showed me that you know poetry which is
knowledge I need if I am to be helped. Pretty simple needs and
I make calls based on those needs and who can satisfy them. You
were direct and correct so I gained positive results from your
knowledge, not anyone elses Joe. So, thanks again and I will
keep posting until I am asked to leave. Thank you. easy

It's extremely unlikely that anyone will ask you to leave, unless of course you become aggressive and rude and such. Point is, we fancy sarcasm 'round these parts, Joe's just screwing around.

Joe's just screwing around

I'm not, and I am perfectly capable of speaking for myself, Mr. P.

Tom:

Since Percival's still around after so many years, it is hardly likely that anyone will ask you to leave. Glad I could help.

Joe

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Well, I what I meant was that, should Easy have taken your remark as slander against him, that is, you saying Peter is "better" than Easy, that it should not be taken in that way. Thought you're right, I should have allowed such misinterpretations to go unchecked. After all, this is your territory, and no one else's, you big strong man you.

Easy, as you can see, our definition of rude is a bit odd. Again, don't worry too much of these things.

Hey, big strong men, how about me leasing out this space
as a neutral communications center for didactic debate
on esoteric subjects like "rude" "better" "slander" "poetry"
"territory." I am the perfect unknown quantity for the family
to carry on its business, as mundane and irrelevant as that
business might be. Think about it. Not hard, but think about it.
I'll discount rates due to the economic realities on the ground. tom

If it comes with a functioning kitchen, I'll seriously consider it.

Tom,

Although I enjoy looking over the to-and fro between commentators, I enjoy reading the the poems most of all. So, even if I don't comment all that often, I hope you continue to post whenever you feel like it. I write many of my pieces because I am exploring what poetry may be. Like Wallace Stevens, I take all poetry to be experimental. Given that, I prefer poetry written with the knowledge of the twentieth century and the changes in the genre since Pound and Williams and the Objective and Projective poets questioned the foundations of nineteenth century verse. I am not a versifier, but no matter. I enjoy quality in all forms. As to who might be a 'better' poet...the next poet who posts a poem we CANNOT DO WITHOUT is the one I look for each day...I don't particularly care if it is mine or yours or Terry's or Mary's...for the moment, that poem here for me is a little love poem Joseph posted recently.

The only drawbacks, as far as I can see, from posting five or six poems at once, which I have done from time to time, are [1] that tends to push other good poems by others down the board where they are then less likely to get the attention they deserve, and [2] the readers get 'over-taxed' here...we're 'lazy'...and so some good poems you might post might not get sufficient attention.

Your current sonnet seems somewhat forced to me me since you have stuffed Faust [German], Olympus [Greek] and a sarcophagus in together, thus distracting your readers from attention to the racism I think you mean to have us focus on.

NO matter, I know you're working hard on your craft...meanwhile, racism is alive and well in America.

Cheers,

Peter

Well Peter, I'm glad you like experimental poetry because all my sonnets have tried to take the form far from either the Bards or Tennyson, or Spencer for that matter and make it apllicable like you stated to the twentieth century. My little racist sonnet plays with sonics, prosody, and symbology looped around impressionist influeces of German, Greek and literary figures out of those great traditions. That is what Racist Dead was dealing with not Racism. If you have to state to someone that racism is alive and well in the world (not just America Peter, Asia is the most jingoistic and racisit culturally ncarcissistic area of the world) then move on to someone a bit more informed. I would hope poetry on this site is not needed to remind people of the obvious, at least, that is what I am looking for. Thanks for all this clarification today. LOL. I've had fun. tom

Apparently, you misunderstood my intent, Percival. I was responding to Tom's statement, "I know there are one or two who enjoy my posts so I tend to think they must be terribly important and bright", when I made my comment. I thought Tom's "they" was referring to me, Peter, and perhaps one or two others, so I was merely pointing out that I am hardly as bright as Peter and no more important than anyone else who visits here. You apparently believed Tom's "they" to be referencing his poems(?). At any rate, if I was unclear, I apologize.

That said, I'm off to pumping iron again.

Joe

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And to think Mark Anthony and Cleopatra depended on the written misunderstanding
to avoid war LOL> never would I suggest my poetry be held higher than its lower
station. lol. My "they" was most certainly refering to you Joe and a "few" others not my poems. I take it Percival is Peter is a prophet is a Summerian Myth. lol. tom

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...and to think, I actually apologized to Percival! That has got to be a first on this board.

Peter:

Thanks for the kudos on "the little love poem." I missed it first time through when I read your post above.

Joe

Bump.

Sonnet writing is not easy and Tom's efforts to make this venerable form viable for expressing 'modern' topics is admirable.

I never tried a sonnet, used to write some high kews, but some Brit jumped in the middle of me for using the word "jap". Then Urine got all snippity with me, and I have been brow beaten into a corner. I may never write again......'




or, I may just ignore the Brit and beat Urine up.

fergot to say, I enjoyed this one. It is a real departure of what we usually get here.

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Hi Merc. If you can do a 'kew' you can do a sonnet too
with 'jap' your focul rap and Urine used for coolant blues
thrown in yellow news on poetic gears of isolated state in-teste-
to erase at pace provided by preconditions now in place throughout
the race. Gentlemen and Feminists start your acrid Urine NOW!! There
OFF.....Urine is insurgency without a pot to piss. tom