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Hi Zena - great minds think alike!
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 24, 2007 at 11:19 PM
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Antonioni,
Some say it's poem if it rhymes
some say the writer has a good time
that depends, I suppose
if you're trying to please those
who are you payin you
but I like your idea
better if a poem is free
and to hell with the lucre
posted by
Zena77
on October 24, 2007 at 2:37 PM
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Dave, there was a strange woman there. That's a tale to wait for...
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 24, 2007 at 1:11 PM
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Mr Oniony, I just read your comment below. I was right. Beware.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 24, 2007 at 10:18 AM
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Hey, you might be in the Manc library right now.
Watch out for that woman with the bagful of paperweights.
(There's a true tale goes with this.)
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 24, 2007 at 10:18 AM
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Onioni
Good Luck! .... I think you'll do even better this time (I mean, who needs a mad Flamenco Queen around, right?)
....
posted by
White_Elephant
on October 24, 2007 at 8:27 AM
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Thanks everyone!
I'm going to another reading group after work - on my own this time - but it won't be like a gig, I think it's more just a few people sitting around, bringing their own poems, in a library in Manchester...
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 24, 2007 at 8:24 AM
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Re: Another fine topic Tony; and one we can probably all relate to
I think a poem-is whatever 'sits comfortable' on the reader's heart!Chris.
posted by
Scramble
on October 24, 2007 at 7:23 AM
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Another fine topic Tony; and one we can probably all relate to
well done; thank you
posted by
mariaki
on October 24, 2007 at 2:45 AM
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Veri good sonnet really and also thinkfull. My opinion is that poetry should always try to displace common language, even the language of poetry. In Italy, for instance, is very uncommon to find poets writing sonnets because we are still too much tied to avsanguard and so. I appreciated very much the coming back to tradition. Harpo1947
posted by
Harpo47
on October 24, 2007 at 2:32 AM
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Welldone!
posted by
Kayzzaman
on October 24, 2007 at 2:31 AM
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Well said !
posted by
afzal50
on October 24, 2007 at 12:31 AM
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Thanks everyone!!
Espanol - yo hablo un poco tambien....
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 24, 2007 at 12:06 AM
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Onioni
Excellent!
.... agree with every word ~ although at the mo I'm personally still a slave
...
P.S.
Careful of that Flamenco Queen ~ she's been unleashing her Spanish on us again! Yikes!
Senorita .Dave. :
Que tal?
Tu es muy loco
posted by
White_Elephant
on October 23, 2007 at 11:17 PM
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I like it!
That power on button is all powerful isn't it?
Two roses
From me and
two more from Bo ^..^ the wonder dog!!!
posted by
Whacky
on October 23, 2007 at 8:30 PM
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Tony -
I hate when I forgot to turn the computer on!
posted by
sannhet
on October 23, 2007 at 6:00 PM
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Tony, your very own, comfy & productive corner. Bravo Antonionioninioninion
I liked this a lot but I can't say why! I did think of Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sasoon. They were not welcome or very famous until the (evil) the wars they wrote about (against it, that is) were over. We could also write "Anthems ofr Doomed Youth" ...be ignored, & still write
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on October 23, 2007 at 5:29 PM
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Well said!
posted by
heartworms
on October 23, 2007 at 5:25 PM
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antonio
good explanation. Thanks for sharing
posted by
richinstore
on October 23, 2007 at 5:10 PM
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Man do not live by bread alone, Words weaved into poems give life to man as well.
katzs
posted by
katzs
on October 23, 2007 at 4:43 PM
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Hi - thanks all of you!
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 23, 2007 at 1:41 PM
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Fine wisdom, my friend!
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on October 23, 2007 at 12:53 PM
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Hello my friend. You contiue to amaze me!! Another fine sonnet! SAM
posted by
sam444
on October 23, 2007 at 12:27 PM
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Antonio.......
Live truth in everything! Quite a statement you made!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on October 23, 2007 at 12:24 PM
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That's very true
Well written. Again.
posted by
Brian76
on October 23, 2007 at 11:58 AM
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Viva, Viva El Sonnetero!
Esta Numero Uno donna las Mostas Populeros de Dias!!!
LLyama esta quadrapedo!!
Underay underay!
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 23, 2007 at 11:52 AM
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Viva el sonnetero!
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 23, 2007 at 11:47 AM
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Tony
An age old question, I suppose - "What is a poem". From a marketable perspective it probably has to be easily digested by the masses but if a poet screams or whispers an idea in the shape of a rhyming piece, a free style prose, or a sonnet, who's to say that's not poetry??? Aren't poets by nature eccentric and therefore their "product" a finely crafted message of their musings?
posted by
Troosha
on October 23, 2007 at 10:59 AM
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Typos: 'famous, wonder'. I must have a secretary by the name of Miss Typo
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on October 23, 2007 at 10:57 AM
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Hi Tony
Once, the fanous actress Greta Garbo, in her haughtiness, asked of an Indian heroine, "Wonder why people call you a great actress back there in India? Acting is child's play". To which this heroine, I forgot her name answered, "Woner why it took you so long to become a child?"
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on October 23, 2007 at 10:53 AM
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BRAVO!!
hmm, well, i like to think everything happens when time is right 
Well said tony!
posted by
pelagus
on October 23, 2007 at 10:49 AM
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