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In the spirit of Dutch's sonnet "Quixotry", I wrote this poem to show Dutch and anyone else who might be wondering, that I can write trash every bit as bad . ItchAh Dutch, you're young, your futures...
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Maz, I once wrote a poem about " a pointless hole in the broken door". If you read the anthology which follows my posting, it's evident that lofty ideals have no exclusive claim on the sonnet form. If...
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Dear Chris,I'm probably going off at a tangent here, but in regard to the discussion about 'loftiness' in poetry, I remember sneering, when I was a student, at Matthew Arnold's ideas about poetry...
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Maz, In truth, you and I are not that far apart.Your comments are accurate. Losing the protection and safety of believing the vast majority of poets felt as I did, ie. that the sonnet was inviolate in...
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Chris--my first take on this is that you seem to know an awful lot about wanking, & are pretty quick to project it onto another. My second is that you have likewise projected the failings in your...
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Well, you may be disgusted with this, Chris, but I got a chuckle out of it. I love the idea of everyone on this board duking out their disagreements in verse.
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BTW, I didn't read this as a "deeply personal insult." To my ear, it came across as more of a lighthearted jab. I agree that Dutch's poem was more imaginative, though.
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Mike, When the earlier fray arose between young Chrispin and myself, you erased my comments and dismissed them citing you didn't have time to be a traffic cop and Chrispin was more familiar to you. (...
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Well, friends, since this piece is about me, I guess I'm entitled to speak my mind.Others may be amused, I'm most certainly not.Whether I'm deeply insulted? Yes, I am. This is very, very, very...
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Compared to labelling someone "Dr. Joseph Goebbels" I think this is extremely mild.
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For the record:I did not -- I repeat: I did not -- label Mr. Devere as Dr. Joseph Goebbels.The exact quote is as follows:"Mr. Devere's point of view -- as expressed by now in a whole series of most...
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Chris --This is great. I have a sizable intellect! Wow. What my sizable intellect did in the fracas which, thank you O so much, you've dredged up, was to allow it to reach its level, to reach...
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I find this incredibly ironic. Chris, for the minor infraction of posting a rather pompous poem, is painted with the "Nazi book-burner" brush--and then when he has the audacity to retaliate by saying,...
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Rose -- please do not leave on account of this. I'm not threatening to delete anyone who pisses me off. Quite the opposite, I thought. I'm sorry if it sounded that way. I did NOT mean to say "It's my...
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Yes, Rose, every oldtimer out here will testify to Mike's integrity!Jesus, all this because of this pedantic freak!Hey, do you expect me to take his disgusting piece of defamation lying down?!...
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Rosa, You're a dream. I'm honored to have crossed your path in this life. Chris
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Hi Mike,Since this poem concerns me I hereby officially request to lock this thread in order to let the normal interaction of the Sonnet Board go ahead.I am getting sick and tired of all of this.I...
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Crispin you sound like a pathetic putz. If you really want to get on by this write a nasty poem about me.
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No, thank you, Mr. Devere. I've had it with you.Crispin "Sic vive tamquam cras moriturus, sic stude quasi semper victurus."~ Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536)
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