Re: a comment on 38 Lines by auscot	3-Jan-05/5:19 PM
Wow, isn't it fun when you strike a raw nerve.
Re: a comment on 38 Lines by auscot	2-Jan-05/10:00 PM
I see my poetry as a recreational pursuit with no restrictions. I do it purely for enjoyment not kudos, It is gratifying when it is liked and enjoyed. Like my sculpture, I create for me, no other. I just happened to have a sheet with 38 lines and I filled it. It gave you no satisfaction, but I enjoyed doing it and that is what counts. Let's face it, in posting on this site we are playing minor league, very few posts would cut the mustard in the world of poetry publishing. It's the enjoyment that matters, at least for me.
Re: a comment on 38 Lines by auscot	1-Jan-05/2:03 PM
Thanks Dovina, and here was I trying to be lighthearted amongst all the angst, bile and gloom. Is nobody happy anymore? There is a pill you can take.
Re: Storms by Jeremi B. Handrinos	29-Dec-04/9:45 PM
You are a poet and I like your style, it says something and says it well.
Re: Math Poem 2 by Dovina	28-Dec-04/8:52 PM
This poem is disingenuous, is it some sort of avant garde form of writing to scare off readers and give poetry a bad name? Please, let's make poetry readable and enjoyable.
Re: a comment on Twin Forks by auscot	22-Dec-04/4:57 PM
Made my day, but a literary masterpiece?
Re: a comment on Twin Forks by auscot	22-Dec-04/4:55 PM
Thanks, can't get better than 10.
Re: a comment on Twin Forks by auscot	22-Dec-04/4:54 PM
Thanks brother, I lived in Africa for a few years amongst beautiful people.
Re: a comment on Twin Forks by auscot	22-Dec-04/4:50 PM
Thanks Dovina, a great score. Punctuation has always been my weakness, I tend to grap a pinch, scatter it and hope it lands in the right place. Re 'No longer..., it seemed ok at the time. Thanks for the crit.
Re: a comment on Math Poem by Dovina	22-Dec-04/2:45 AM
I can't speak for a car mechanic or a truck driver, but I see no reason for them not to be able to write poetry. It could be a way of escaping what,to some, seems a humdrum existence. I can tell you that I didn't start writing until after I took up sculpture some nine years ago. I believe the creativity of sculpting released in me a need to explore creativity in a different form, poetry. My very first poem was about my father who died at the age of 49 years with a miner's lung disease. It proved to me that poetry is very much about emotion. No matter what we do for a living there is a poem deep within, knowing how to release it is the problem for most people.
Re: Andrew part II by Spindle	22-Dec-04/2:22 AM
Move on, you lost your virginity. The world is full of predators who take what they want or are offered it on a plate. It taught you a lesson, it's called the getting of wisdom. Let your next poem be a happy one,it lies within you, let it free.
Re: Joanna by DR Limerick	22-Dec-04/2:08 AM
There was a young girl called Joanna with a face shaped like a banana. Her boyfriend said so, I want you to know, she's bent and comes from Havana.
Re: a comment on Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams	21-Dec-04/3:09 PM
Sorry, thought you were using it as an adjective.
Re: a comment on Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams	21-Dec-04/2:37 AM
Yes.
Re: Decline and Fall by auscot	20-Dec-04/6:50 PM
Dovina, I was unaware I had deleted comments on Decline and Fall, must have been the devil in me. Re The Drop I prefer my ending its the only time I get a commended.
Re: This God of mine by Bobjim	20-Dec-04/6:34 PM
I'm not into borrowing Gods. I worship the great outdoors and this wonderful world, which evolved over time for us to live in and enjoy.
Re: If I knew by Rabbit	20-Dec-04/6:28 PM
This is a reminder to all of us that love is a four letter word which must be used frequently, without qualification. It is the poem we all love to hear. This poem reached me and I'm old and cynical. Well done.
Re: Religious Slaughter by Beyond_Dreams	20-Dec-04/6:21 PM
I will never take to free verse, must be my age, give me a good old fashioned rhyming poem any day. Yet, never too late, must try. One thing I would like to see, a 'tumulous' ocean with an 'o'.
Re: Math Poem by Dovina	20-Dec-04/6:09 PM
Too deep and numerical for me. As a sculptor my poems are rendered in stone with a mallet and chisel, it's the only way they stay immortal and the exercise keeps me fit and so patient.
Re: Decline and Fall by auscot	20-Dec-04/5:52 PM
Thanks Dovina with the mystic name, I admire your lack of cynicism, but regret that Decline and Fall failed to register as a metaphor for the corrupt and corruption all around us. For Zoo Keepers read politicians.