Doug I agree, but what
praytell
is
'mother & god soft porn'
KS
On 28/10/2007, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ha, well there is that.
>
> As a judge of local poetry contests for the newspaper here I have seen
> worse, it's true. Usually what I call 'mother & god soft porn'. What's
> fascinating is that we're back to that question of sincerity. Often
> these verses are sincere, but what the writers dont know is that rather
> than writing from their heart & experience they are instead writing
> within the conventions (a concept they dont know either) of children's
> verse & C&W (the worst kind). Because that's all the 'poetry' they have
> ever experienced....
>
> Doug
> On 25-Oct-07, at 1:46 PM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
>
> > Sorry Jon, but the humour behind it turns its badness back on itself.
> > It's
> > got too much energy to be properly bad.
> Douglas Barbour
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> It's the first lesson, loss.
> Who hasn't tried to learn it
> at the hands of wind or thieves?
>
> Jan Zwicky
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