Isn't it wonderful.
Carol s
----- Original Message -----
From: "arthur seeley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: New poem: for Deborah
> I know what I would have done without the Internet. sat down and become a
> cabbage.
> I retired a while ago and did nothing but mill around doing some part time
> lecturing at College and generally running downhill fast. My 4 year old
> Grandson convinced me I needed to stop smoking and instead of doing that
> while watching my garden grow I went out onto the Internet,
> I had been until then an isolate in poetic terms, I knew no poets met none
> read lots wrote a little. I discovered the world is full of poets and
better
> still full of poetry. I have written over a hundred poems since I stopped
> smoking 19 months ago.
> Porn and poetry that's the Internet; life in microcosm!!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:19 PM
> Subject: New poem: for Deborah
>
>
> For Deborah and all internet poets
> [OK folks you might not know Deborah but it shouldnt matter]
>
> Wouldnąt Dylan Thomas have loved the internet
> wouldnąt Tennyson have hated it
> wouldnąt Homer have made use of it
> wouldnąt Vergil have been afraid of it
> but used it anyway
> wouldnąt Sylvia have had something to say
> to the whole world
> wouldnąt Ted have said
> internet you are only a daffodil
> then wondered what he meant by that
> in his strange dramatic poetry mode
> wouldnąt all his women have succumbed
> Ted and Sylvia will you leave us alone
> to be poets
> Wouldnąt Herrick have loved the internet
> never mind his rusticated village
> he could have gone on being important
> as we all go on being important
> when we have seen through the metropoles
> and adopted out own particular countrysides
> wouldnąt Browning have had theories about the internet
> woulnąt Elizabeth B have utilised it
> wouldnąt Hopkins have developed our secret vice
> wouldnąt Stevie have laughed
> wouldnąt Wordsworth have internationalised
>
> wouldnąt Coleridge have overdosed
> wouldnąt they
> what would Shakespeare have done
> well really he was a dramatist
> stuff being a poet
> he did that in his spare time
> like us
> well wouldnąt they
> couldnąt I go on
>
> you started me off on this Deborah
> by writing a poem I was sure Dylan Thomas wouldąve liked
>
> in beat mode
> Sally Evans
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