01-20-2014, 09:05 PM
Billy,
"Long"? I only post the short ones! I know if I posted a long the one it would never get read. You could post "Howl" and no one would come close to reading the entire thing.
pluggin' is correct. Actually plugging is the dictionary correct word as it takes no account of dialect, and so changed it to plugin', as in a DC current plugin'. Thanks for the catch.
"it rambles but it does so in a way i like."
Don't most of my poems ramble...well at least according to Tom they do. If they didn't, they would hardly be mine
The message from the muse must by nature follow the convoluted pathways of my gray matter, and somehow by all that convolution the muses original comes out closest to what it was originally. I would hate to see what happen when I apply my active will to it...well actually I have and that is why I generally write this a way. In other words the longest seems to be the shortest course...if you get my drift. 
"We must forever refrain
from trying to find water
with an overheated brain!
For in terms of sympathetic magic
what you look with, not for
is exactly what you'll get!"
Thank you for your present and future comments.
Dale
I haven't noticed Leonard Cohen trying to be a poet either, so I will take that as a complement. I am now and will always be a lyricist posing as a prose writer. I would hate to be thought of as a poet as I simply cannot follow all their silly conventions such as starting each line with a "cap", or center justify, or write subtly in such a way as to make old women have toe orgasms as they curl up with my table top book of soft porn masquerading as poetry with images dancing in their minds of Percy Bysshe Shelley in his boy blue outfit, Paul McCarthy eyes and pink feathered quill pen doing naughty things to their old aching, calloused feet that continually snag on their cheap panty hose, as Avon truckstop #9 perfume wafts across the boudoir to mask the smell of never been douched pheromones, lest the overly fat and pampered cat walk in and catch them in their reverie.
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Now let's see, did you write anything worth responding to that needs redressing... no, I suppose not
–Erthona
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Hi erthona, this is more like it. Taking the comment literally it is so much more and so like it I will need a week. This is a rant in the style of Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows, but without any attempt to pretend to be a poet. I will come back but expect you will edit it into some recognisable verse/order/form by the time I do.
....or not.
Best,
tectak.
(You Really Should Capitalise Each Line You Know. Everybody Knows It Is A Rule Of Poetry)
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"Long"? I only post the short ones! I know if I posted a long the one it would never get read. You could post "Howl" and no one would come close to reading the entire thing.
pluggin' is correct. Actually plugging is the dictionary correct word as it takes no account of dialect, and so changed it to plugin', as in a DC current plugin'. Thanks for the catch.
"it rambles but it does so in a way i like."
Don't most of my poems ramble...well at least according to Tom they do. If they didn't, they would hardly be mine
The message from the muse must by nature follow the convoluted pathways of my gray matter, and somehow by all that convolution the muses original comes out closest to what it was originally. I would hate to see what happen when I apply my active will to it...well actually I have and that is why I generally write this a way. In other words the longest seems to be the shortest course...if you get my drift. "We must forever refrain
from trying to find water
with an overheated brain!
For in terms of sympathetic magic
what you look with, not for
is exactly what you'll get!"
Thank you for your present and future comments.
Dale
I haven't noticed Leonard Cohen trying to be a poet either, so I will take that as a complement. I am now and will always be a lyricist posing as a prose writer. I would hate to be thought of as a poet as I simply cannot follow all their silly conventions such as starting each line with a "cap", or center justify, or write subtly in such a way as to make old women have toe orgasms as they curl up with my table top book of soft porn masquerading as poetry with images dancing in their minds of Percy Bysshe Shelley in his boy blue outfit, Paul McCarthy eyes and pink feathered quill pen doing naughty things to their old aching, calloused feet that continually snag on their cheap panty hose, as Avon truckstop #9 perfume wafts across the boudoir to mask the smell of never been douched pheromones, lest the overly fat and pampered cat walk in and catch them in their reverie.
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Now let's see, did you write anything worth responding to that needs redressing... no, I suppose not
–Erthona
[/quote]
Hi erthona, this is more like it. Taking the comment literally it is so much more and so like it I will need a week. This is a rant in the style of Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows, but without any attempt to pretend to be a poet. I will come back but expect you will edit it into some recognisable verse/order/form by the time I do.
....or not.
Best,
tectak.
(You Really Should Capitalise Each Line You Know. Everybody Knows It Is A Rule Of Poetry)
[/quote]
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.