draculina

most people can’t read poems coz they’re lookng for a story, or somethng really easy to follow.

Most poems don’t tell stories.

Most poems paint pictures with words, and they use music..

You don’t read a picture like a novel. You shouldn’t read a lot of poetry by looking for a novel, a story, in it.

Just saying…..

How can you read a poem properly without looking into it deeply, Mr Q?

Looking into it deeply means looking at its rhythms.

Otherwise, it’s like listening to a song without hearing the tune.

Most poems are 4 beats or 5 beats to a line…like musical beats.

My two lines were 3 beats..

I was just taking the mickey

by mentioning…[Read more]

How can you read a poem properly without looking into it deeply, Mr Q?

Looking into it deeply means looking at its rhythms.

Otherwise, it’s like listening to a song without hearing the tune.

Most poems are 4 beats or 5 beats to a line…like musical beats.

My two lines were 3 beats..

I was taking the mickey

out of James…[Read more]

How can you read a poem properly without looking into it deeply, Mr Q?

Looking into it deeply means looking at its rhythms.

Otherwise, it’s like listening to a song without hearing the tune.

Could be, Gerry, could be.

I was just taking the mickey

by mentioning James Dickey.

(those are three-beat lines, btw)

well, they may be in prison if they’ve committed something so indescribably forbidden.

There is a famous poem about self-abuse, a gross act which only the most depraved amongst us commit, by the inappropriately named American poet James Dickey, but as I’ve become short-sighted I can’t find it.

He also wrote a very explicit poem called The…[Read more]

well, they may be in prison if they’ve committed something so indescribably forbidden.

There is a famous poem about self-abuse, a gross act which only the most depraved amongst us commit, by the inappropriately named American poet James Dickey, but as I’ve become short-sighted I can’t find it.

He also wrote a very explicit poem called The…[Read more]

ooooooooooooooooohhh!

Which taboo is that??

Do tell. The public has a right to know!

He started, so he had to finish

Magnus is dead, Mr Milkman.

The subject I would choose would be My Life As I Have Seen It.

Mastermind is not what it used to be. I loved the obscure subjects chosen by obvious headcases. I remember one guy had chosen Japanese Sea Battles 1267-1398.  He looked like a kamikaze pilot, had a permanently toothy grin whihc indicated insanity, and…[Read more]

suzanne 43 is our real leader

speak for yourself on this one, Ruby

Could well be, Linda

that could well be mist being blown by the wind??

The other one of the guy holding a gun is weird. You sure it’s not photoshop? Arthur Rackham made trick photography of fairies back in 1917 whihc convinced everyone for a while that fairies actually existed.

That’s really interesting information, Sophia.

Whereabouts is the cemetery? I might visit it when I finally get to Liverpool (only really been once on my own; a second time with parents but I was very young and don’t remember it beyond Lime Street station, which I remember for it’s funny name).

I know, I need specsavers, my eyes are old…[Read more]