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Wise and Wonderful

AkosuaMiracle — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:57:05 -0500

Thank you so much for this post. Very inspirational.

ihavedecidedtosavemylife.blogspot.com

Stopped to read yours

mscole71 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:53:39 -0500

I am glad things are now chipper for you! Aside from comments of concern, I thought this was well written. I am new to writing here, so I like to read everyone's posts especially under the poetry section. Trying to write better myself, taking in everyone's choice of words, imagery, content. I know it's about being lonely but I liked the way you expressed yourself. Thanks for sharing. Cole

"A Working Girl Can't Win"

Liz Rizzo — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:50:52 -0500

I'm enjoying checking out all the poetry links here!:)

I shared a poem by Deborah Garrison for National Poetry Month. Here's my post:
I'll spare you a rhyming title for National Poetry Month

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess.

Thanks

LPC — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:04:34 -0500

Thanks! *crawls back out of lurking hole*

http://amidlifeofprivilege.blogspot.com

Sorry your first comment went AWOL

sassymonkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:13:54 -0500

But I think I know exactly what you mean. Some poetry feels...forced, as if it's trying too hard to be poetry instead of just being poetry.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

lol at "torturing" your readers

sassymonkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:11:25 -0500

I'm also loling that your readers aren't "reading types". Is there really a reading "type"? hmmmmm

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

I'm really enjoying your poems

sassymonkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:09:46 -0500

I'll let you have the fun of writing them and allow myself the fun of enjoying them (this year at least).

"I love that poetry can take perfectly ordinary people, moments, stories or things and turn them into something beautiful."

I think that's the best description of poetry ever.

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

A poem a day!

sassymonkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:06:01 -0500

That's fantastic! I tried doing "Poetry Friday's" for awhile but it died off when I realized I didn't know (or read) enough poetry to make it anything but a chore to continue.

You've posted some fantastic poems!

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

hahaha I love that

sassymonkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:02:37 -0500

"They make it seem like word version of Differential Equations on steroids."

I think I actually would have preferred the differential equations. ;-)

Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.

My mistake I guess.

LPC — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:06:39 -0500

http://amidlifeofprivilege.blogspot.com

Hmm. OK. Good to know. What I said was that I don't like poetry because it always feels as though it's cheating to achieve melancholy and yearning just by using fewer words than prose...essentially at least that's what I said.

Not as far as I know...

Denise — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:07:53 -0500

I'm pretty much the only one who deletes comments on BlogHer.com and I didn't delete it. Are you sure it actually went through and you didn't click preview and forget to click post?

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Deleted?

LPC — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:22:23 -0500

http://amidlifeofprivilege.blogspot.com

I'm guessing my post on why I don't like poetry got deleted? I had no intent to be trolling. It's an honest feeling I have. Had nothing to do with professors. In fact I majored in Comparative Literature, and wrote a thesis on Epic Poetry. Perhaps if I had been more specific. I don't like modern poetry. Oh well. *crawls back into lurking hole*

I Love Poetry, but I Neglect it as Well...

SCanon — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:48:47 -0500

Thank you so much for pointing out it is National Poetry Month! Now I get to torture my readers with Allen Ginsberg and Emily Dickinson (my readers aren't the "reading" type..or so they tell me).

I have to say that Nordette made the perfect point when she said that people get turned off from poetry early by teachers who don't understand or love it. I was there, but I bounced back thanks to a saint of a college professor. I'll have to dedicate my days to reading modern poetry this month!

yay for poetry

jessica.schafer — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:10:43 -0500

I've only started to enjoy reading poetry in the last two years. Reading Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours suddenly opened up this world of deeply meaningful personal poems (as opposed to epic poems on myths and legends). That's the kind of poetry I love to read. And you've described it perfectly, it does make you pause and savour the sound and the words and wondering what the context and the background of the lines is. I love that poetry can take perfectly ordinary people, moments, stories or things and turn them into something beautiful.

For National Poetry Month, I'm participating in the Poem a Day Challenge Robert Lee Brewer is hosting. You can find each day's poem on my blog. :) Its been fun and challenging. And its not too late to join the challenge!!

In Between Words

http://jessicaschafer.wordpress.com

Sorry some teacher slayed your poetic vibe :-)

Nordette — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:31:54 -0500

Glad you're reminding BlogHers that it's National Poetry Month, SM. And since you are, I'm adding two links:

1.) New Orleans, Walt Whitman, and Leaves of Grass Connection

2.) Attack of The Inaugural Poem aka "Praise Song for the Day" (right here at BlogHer.com)

I think lots of people get turned off to poetry when the teachers themselves don't understand or love poetry. They make it seem like word version of Differential Equations on steroids.

Nordette: BlogHer CE. Blogs @ WSATA & UMBOP. @Twitter