Re: Two Little Things

> Tarapia Tapioco wrote:
> In article <40224916>
> Dale Houstman <dmh7> wrote:
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>> Tarapia Tapioco wrote:
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>> Two little things or not.
>> Surrealism lost in dualism barcoded on a hallmark at the checkout :)
>> Not bad, but I know you can do so much better in form and meter.
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>> Thourn Whaul
>> ȼǻ
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>> ALL my poems have form, and - in their way - march to a meander of
>> meter. Yet, a lot of water has gone under the bridge since modernism
>> stirred the post-war waters, and I don't feel compelled to wade in those
>> puddles.
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>> And I've seen MANY worse poems in meter and bespangled with rhymes.
>> Poetry exists despite those strictures.
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>> But all of us can do better.
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>> dmh
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> I remember you posted once a poem that mentioned a marble ashtray.
> They were very neat couplets(triplets) as verses, not rhymed and full on in "your" style.
> The surreal usually vanishes once you know the poet and he keeps his/her style.
> But I also think it's an excuse to rush spill an idea into verses.
> Sometimes later you eventually get hurt as your ideas get adopted or
> reworked into a finer expression.
> Those that say they don't care mainly already had something out of it.
> In worse case a few dollars more in their wallet.
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> My not care approach is to hang on to sanity towards anything transcendental
> that each poem published here by me, might try to evoke.
> So far it continues to be a road of discovery.
> For some this all might sound up nose, but give it a try,
> post a poem then sort out your feelings from the aftermath.
> If you don't get an reply, keep on working it's suppose to be a workshop.
> If you come here only to comment, well don't blame poets for the butterfly effect.
> 
> Thourn Whaul
> ȼǻ
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Well put. 


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