Dear Lizzytysh, It wasn't a diversion. It was politeness. However, I will revert to the more astringent position. There is no poetry on this forum. There is verse, there is doggeral, there is nonsense, there are lines that rhyme, there are lines that don't rhyme. There are attempts at poetry. But no...

I am beginning to suspect that I have been corresponding with an insane person.

Dear Lizzytysh, I had a hard time following your tortured analogies about marriage and versifying Afghans but the reasons why people write, read and enjoy poetry have nothing whatsoever to do with whether a particular poem is good or bad in and of itself. People are free to post their "inner thought...

Dear Greta,


You left out the last line.

"Those who can't teach, teach gym."

Dear Heatherly, What poem do you think to be good? or great? and what draws you to a particular poem or author? I am drawn to authors who can express an idea or thought within an emotional context that doesn't degenerate into sentimentality. Stirring feelings is not enough. Most of the poems on this...

Give me strength.

Dear Lightning, I like Leonard's latest exercise in vanity...but I would rather have an oil and canvas copy of something in the Louvre by Suzanne Elrod. As for the "thought that counts" what exactly is Leonard's thought? He draws a self-portrait, attaches a cryptic message to it and wafts it through...

Dear Linda,

Who holds the original piece of paper in their hand that Leonard has held in his hand, and bent over and drooled on, I mean drew on.

That's the best laugh I've had in a long time. Many thanks. I've missed your Minnesota drollery.


M

"ANY original art would interest me more than somebody's copy."

But Lightning,

Clicking and printing? Then I'd just be a copyest. Original art is so much better. Don't you agree?

Anyone who wants these images can print them out from the Internet. You need not have a competition so that one wins and the rest lose. You need not fight over them so you outdo everybody else. You do not need the "prestige" of an orginal or to horde it for future sale at a high price. These are pe...

Dear George,


Start over. Use the first three lines. Throw the rest away.


M

Not too shabby for a non-poet. I didn't care for the fifth dimension vibration but the rest of it was o.k.



M

Ditto

Ditto