I made it up!
C
--- Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Thanks candice can you tell me about scrimshow I
> know scrimshaw are they
> related?cheers patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of MC Ward
> Sent: 09 April 2007 22:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision
>
> Hello Stephen,
>
> You apparently don't remember me from Joe's former
> list--as a poet, I mean. I am also, like Hal, a
> "pro."
> Since my credentials were questioned, I'm glad to
> post
> a poem that appears in both the traditional music
> issue of _Shenandoah_ and my book, _The Moon Sees
> the
> One_ (2006). As for responses to other people's
> poems,
> I never comment unless I have a positive remark or
> suggestion to make.
>
>
>
> Ballad Child
>
> _lean your head over
> and list' to the wind_
> ("The Connemara Cradle Song")
>
> scrimshow through the window
> on the deep roiling braes, on
> currachs a'sailing over the furze,
> as rues the shad the rose is blown
>
> we never fished for flying glass,
> yet chad did happen nonetheless
> (we cannot get o'er the Whitewater
> business either); really, sulks the lily,
>
> must we list' to the brass
> or heed the windrose?
> come by our glenglass,
> there go our Windows!
>
> lean your head over
> the side of the bowl,
> bog down, bog down
> Lady Isabel, take cover
>
> if herring is silver, then sour
> the cream, as slivers of heather
> do sharpen the Tweed
>
> _so too may the chains of Old Ireland
> bind you
> no overlooked clover ever to
> find you_
>
> when the wind drags the corn
> by her silk from the field,
> and your hair smells of beer
> shorn from the barley,
>
> then shall you have the story,
> child, as it was told to me
>
> (c) Candice Ward, 2006
>
>
>
> --- Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Unless somebody is specifically asking for a
> > response in the "appreciate any
> > suggestions" manner, I try not to make any public
> > response to any problems I
> > hear or see in 'the plumbing.' I back channel
> > suggestions occasionally.
> > That does not mean I don't make occasional
> > reflections on the value I see in
> > a particular work. I generally shut up if I am
> left
> > in neutral or worse!
> > Unless somebody makes what I find a politically,
> > etc. outrageous view in a
> > poem.
> > Hal is a pro. I don't front channel meddle with
> his
> > plumbing. And I
> > appreciate the generous multiple ways in which he
> > shares his work and the
> > work of the others.
> > Candice, you clearly like to respond to much and
> > often. It's curious that
> > you never put any of your work up here. I realize
> > that is not a requirement.
> > But it would permit folks to know what you are
> about
> > and how how your poems
> > may or may not inform your critical sense and/or
> if
> > you are looking for
> > input or not. Otherwise you are always on one side
> > of the plate. Which,
> > frankly, seems a bit awkward. And I think we are
> > mostly poets here.
> >
> > Stephen V
> > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Lighten up, Candice. I welcome any and all
> > comments.
> > > And I welcome any excuse to send along the H.G.
> > Wells
> > > quotation.
> > >
> > > Hal
> > >
> > > Visit Our Other Location
> > >
> > > Halvard Johnson
> > > ================
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> > > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > > http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:26 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> > >
> > >> When you post a poem here, the implicit
> > assumption is
> > >> that you want comments on it. This kind of
> > mannerless
> > >> response discourages feedback, so I, for one,
> > won't
> > >> asume that you want any comments (or praise
> only)
> > on
> > >> your posted poems. That makes even reading them
> a
> > >> waste of time, as is your time in posting them.
> > >>
> > >> Candice
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --- Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I second that notion.
> > >>>
> > >>> Hal
> > >>>
> > >>> "No passion in the world is equal to
> > >>> the passion to alter someone else's draft."
> > >>> --H. G. Wells
> > >>>
> > >>> Halvard Johnson
> > >>> ================
> > >>> [log in to unmask]
> > >>> [log in to unmask]
> > >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> > >>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > >>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > >>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > >>>
> > >>> On Apr 9, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Patrick Mc Manus
> > wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Roger These people who are cursed with
> wanting
> > to
> > >>> rewrite other
> > >>>> peoples
> > >>>> snaps!!!!!! Ban them that's what I say :-)
> > >>>> Patrick de raynes park
> > >>>>
> > >>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> > >>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > >>>> Behalf Of Roger Day
> > >>>> Sent: 08 April 2007 17:37
> > >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> > >>>> Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision
> > >>>>
>
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