Poems for birthdays and anniversaries and so on
These show up with a certain regularity, these treacly, heavily end-stopped bits of doggerel for Joanne's retirement party, those stuttering limericks for Great-Uncle Vern who never married but who...
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At Uncle Vern's Funeral:Vern was my favorite uncle. It was coolto watch him spit well-chewed tobacco droola good five feet and hit the clothes line pole.He never minded if he missed his goaland hit...
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Hi Quincy -What's the problem? You didn't like a poem so you slammed it, but did it in the name of "the rest of us", a phrase you used twice. Yet one (of us?) at least had already said something...
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Dave--The reference was to a particular kind of poem, not particular poets. Quincy
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Fortunately, I've not seen anything in the guidlines that suggest we shouldn't post "occasional" or "light" verse or even doggeral. There's plenty of room for all of it and for all the serious stuff...
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Addendum for Dave--I can see why you read my remarks the way that you did, but I meant no implication of faction and did not intend to imply a "correct" board reaction. Though I think I'm right.Quincy
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Susan,If there isn't some implicit understanding here that if doggerel is posted, it will be slammed and thoroughly discouraged, it seems to me that something is wrong. This is a site that celebrates...
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Maz...Quote:If there isn't some implicit understanding here that if doggerel is posted, it will be slammed and thoroughly discouraged, it seems to me that something is wrong.I agree that any poem...
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Sue, no disagreement with what you've said. I suppose that this was a case of flashback to early this year, when there was a bevy of rather treacly poems posted here. When they were critiqued as one...
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I'm not suggesting we have to give occasional verse an 'easy passage', though I am in favour of people occasionally posting stuff for light relief if they label it as such. I've posted a few limerick...
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Dave, I'm glad you mentioned humour which as we all know should never be taken lightly. It does strike me however that an eternal failing of the poetic community is to view light verse as slight when...
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That "don't crit the critter" rule has always struck me as one that needs to be interpreted with great nuance. I for one find that the lively indepth discussion that results from inter-critter...
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Quote:It seems to me that the critter himself can behave much as the poet when getting a negative or challenging reaction to what he or she has said: engage or retreat.The difference is that in one...
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Take care to know your audienceand use the words that sell.Use glurge to melt your mother and grit for show and tell.But never ever cross your workone unto the otherFor poets give you helland youll be...
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Nemo,I'm thinking of one workshop in particular where it is strictly forbidden to refer to a previous comment on the poem, but I've never seen the harm in mentioning that you agree or disagree with...
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In fact most threads here go pretty much to plan, so there's no need to mend what's not broken. Just occasionally a thread gets hijacked into a political (using the word loosely) ramble which ignores...
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I tend to think SC's guidelines are pretty reasonable on the "don't crit the crit" thing, with the emphasis being on the poem. that said, we can, and often do, refer to each other's crits, as...
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Yes, that works completely, and is really just a shorthand after all.
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