| let me write comments
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2022-05-17
Albert, is that you, you old chameleon?
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| Moonlight, Summer Moonlight
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2022-05-16
Can anyone explain to me why 95 percent of nineteenth-century British poetry is about death?
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| An Achievement?
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2022-05-13
This is intriguing. Much is left unsaid.
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| Nine Haiku
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2022-05-11
Arresting image,
Meant to enlighten
Typically falls with thud.
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| Unequivocal Confirmation
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2022-05-11
Under capitalism, one's sole reason for existing is to generate profits for one's employer. All other aspects of existence are unacceptable distractions.
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| I Know
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2022-05-09
How presumptuous of you to declare that certain works (yours) aren't poetry. There are no rules which specify that some works are poems, while others are not.
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| Moments
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2022-05-08
Nicely written.
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| You & I
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2022-05-06
I like this. "Nobody more clearly reflects what you say is my bad judgment than you."
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| THE FEW FROM OH SO MANY
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2022-05-06
All you can do is write to please yourself. If others also are pleased, that's nice. Immortality isn't worth fretting about. After you've died, you won't care whether anybody is reading your work.
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| For Theodore Roethke
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2022-04-28
An accurate appraisal, I think.
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| At Home
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2022-04-26
The right poems can do that.
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| the joining
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2022-04-25
Nicely done.
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| En ce moment (with translation)
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2022-04-22
Very nice.
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| Sitting under the redbud tree
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2022-04-22
This is a very nice poem. Spring hasn't been nice here. The redbuds have barely gotten going. Even the forsythias are laying low.
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| Match Game
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2022-04-22
According to the people who claim to know Him best, God just has strong opinions about certain things. He seems to be a hidebound old prick.
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| I Don't Know, Man
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2022-04-21
A serious question, given your circumstances.
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| EDS
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2022-04-19
It sounds horrible. I'm sorry.
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| Spring Greenery, White Lace
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2022-04-18
My wife would vehemently disagree, but I believe that the latter is true.
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| 1am IN THE MORNING
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2022-04-17
Good one!
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| One of Those Moments
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2022-04-13
A horror story. I remember many similar episodes.
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| Freak Street
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2022-04-12
Nicely done, a well-wrought, artful sketch of life as many lived it long ago. I spent considerable time in similar neighborhoods in those days.
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| Irritated Church Ladies
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2022-04-07
I became an atheist at age seven for these very reasons. I've never had reason to question my decision.
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| Conscript
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2022-04-07
A fine vignette, Dougie.
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| The Weaver of Raveloe
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2022-04-07
Well done!
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| Rain
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2022-04-04
Very nice, wonderfully atmospheric.
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| Mairzy Dotes and Dozy Dotes
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2022-03-30
This is a very interesting poem, Allen. A silly little song, meant to be cheery (and sung to me by my mother), triggers memories of horrible pain and suffering, and the song returns in response to televised images of similar pain and suffering.
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| In Cooke's Hollow
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2022-03-30
Nicely done.
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| Ramblings 590
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2022-03-30
Something dying with a whimper.
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| Mending a Chair
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2022-03-28
Fine sentiment and poem.
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| Frogs
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2022-03-25
I'll go with global warming, as Putin was the one thrown into boiling water by us.
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| Paradise Lost, Condensed
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2022-03-24
Bravo!
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| Background
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2022-03-24
I know that guy. He hangs around here when he's not at your place.
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| Widower
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2022-03-23
Well done, Dougie. You've written a poem which is said, but not mawkish.
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| Wednesday Headclear
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2022-03-23
"I've become one of Raymond Carver's characters." Well done.
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| Any Other Time
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2022-03-21
Good poem.
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| Reverie on a Dull Afternoon
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2022-03-20
Imagination (or myopia) can provide a cheap vacation. Venetian blinds stimulate a Venetian fantasy. Good one, Joe.
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| Poetry Has Never Been a Favorite
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2022-03-19
In the right hands, poetry is the highest form of writing. It is coherent and meaningful while making the most wonderful music with nothing but the sounds of words. Unfortunately, the right hands are extremely rare. Don't blame the art for its sorry state. Blame the legions of poseurs and oafs who attempt to to make it (and are praised by other poseurs and oafs for doing so).
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| had enough
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2022-03-18
Good luck.
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| Compline
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2022-03-15
Fine, I would call it "rich," writing, Joe.
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| Afternoon Contemplation
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2022-03-14
Well done, Joe. You've portrayed the scene very nicely.
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| Visions and Revisions
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2022-03-13
Sounds familiar.
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| Delusional
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2022-03-12
Or perhaps a comment on the West's lies.
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| After a Long While
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2022-03-12
We don't come to your door, but we're always nearby, ready to hear from you.
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| Reusable, Recyclable
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2022-03-04
Well done!
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| Snap Shot
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2022-03-01
A fine poem. It seems that he is still here.
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| Ramblings 584
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2022-02-28
I can't know your situation. I am grateful for the silence you describe. Nearly everything I get from the Internet is deliberate and/or unintentional lying, the denial of well-supported facts in favor of ridiculous (but self-serving) fantasies, jingoism, hokum, bigotry and casual cruelty. When all that is absent, my life is better.
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| The Gods of the Copybook Headings
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2022-02-28
This is not smarmy jingoism. It's refreshingly bitter cynicism.
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| Homeless Innovation
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2022-02-24
Well observed, Joe. It's good to have you back.
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| Either Way
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2022-02-24
It's definitely an eccentric language. It struck me as funny a while ago that several headmen together are chiefs, while several kleptomaniacs together are thieves.
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| in domum
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2022-02-22
The shrewdest response.
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