My Favourite Place
I am such a late comer to Free Verse having writ my first a short six years ago and then this in the following year. I have written more since but still have that preference to the staid formal verse,...
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I think you better stick to Formal Poetry Forms this is aweful! LOLNo that's too harsh a comment. It has it's moments. I like the ending. regardsMary'...You must know that I do not love and that I...
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Reading this with more of a critical eye than yesterday, Paddy, I thought how good this would sound in ballad form, and yet there is a meter within this not unsimilar to a ballad.I think I spoke too...
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ROFL MaryYou would need to rise very early to have me reeling over such a decisive comment. It is better that a reader hates or loves than s/he just cant put his finger on it. First reactions and...
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Oh Paddy, that was a wonderful writ! You are such a comic. But sometimes ya just gotta let off steam! That was priceless.As for getting work published, well that I have to do yet. I've never sent any...
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Paddy,This seems to start awkwardly, too "telly," but I started warming up to the poem as I went on. It seems like a rhythm started emerging, and the repetitive elements of alliterative sequences...
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Hi AlexThe sad part is that there are so few publishers in Australia and NZ. I'm not giving up writing. That's the furthest thing from my mind. Givimg up submitting is more likely but no, I will...
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Quote:The sad part is that there are so few publishers in Australia and NZ.Well, I'm sure there also must be any number of publishers in other countries willing to take international work. Quote:I'm...
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ROFLThe things we write, Alex. I guess one becomes content with one's poetry when one opens the book ten years hence and does not exclaim, "Did I really write this?" Paddy Randell
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The fact that vers libre eschews formal constraints forces me to look all that much harder at the classical values, which Stephan Dedalus taking from St. T of A quothed as wholeness, harmony,...
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I don't know why the eztext doesn't want to write the word d-e-s-c-r-i-p-t-i-o-n in the text box above. Search me.
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By George, I think he's got it. I have always been troubled with the second line but never once thought to eliminate it and all the baggage it brings. Thanks Mike. I also think you're right in that...
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