Thank you Pat, the poetaster. Please feel free to fill me in on matters poetryetc.
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On 23/05/2012, at 6:20 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes and welcome from Patrick the geriatric poetaster from Raynes Park
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 22 May 2012 21:17
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> Subject: Re: First post
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> Yes, welcome.
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> And what Roger said.
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> And then, to get the fiction going a bit more, for more fun: I see why the
> passive constructions for the 'I', but maybe more active ones for all those
> others that come in the first lines of the couplets?
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> Doug
> On 2012-05-22, at 6:34 AM, Roger Collett wrote:
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>> Welcome Bill,
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>> Just a tip.
>> When you post here don't cut and paste from Word.
>> Use a text file from something like Notepad and you wont get the surplus
> linefeeds.
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>> Nice to have a new subscriber.
>> Roger Collett
>> Arrowhead Press
>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Wootton"
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>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:17 PM
>> Subject: First post
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>> Hi all.
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>> Geez you are a hard lot to tap into. Thanks Max, Uche et al for walking me
> through the subscription minefields.
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>> Now, is this what I do? Attach a poem and await comment?
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>> Surrounded by Competents
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>> Everyone seems to know what to do.
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>> I am bewildered.
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>> Stepping in to the breach seems so natural for others.
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>> Whenever I do, it’s as a rabbit in the headlights.
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>> The hands of others manoeuvre and tinkle.
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>> Mine hold, at best.
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>> Everyone’s a player or wants to be.
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>> I spectate.
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>> It seems so natural to get involved.
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>> For me, it’s always an effort.
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>> Competent tradies do and do and do.
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>> I am awed by their air of efficiency and sureness.
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>> I panic into offering what unskilled assistance I can.
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>> Initiativelessly.
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>> Even opinions seem ready on the lips of others
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>> While mine, such as they are, I have to summon.
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>> Are they kidding? I wonder.
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>> My natural tendency is to wait.
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>> My blood pressure is lizard low.
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>> The world seems full of pulsing bubblers.
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>> Tentativeness is both my opening and fallback position.
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>> Footholds are all I gain.
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>> Cooking: I still can’t quite acknowledge
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>> the transformation from raw to plateworthy.
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>> Cars: how the hell do they work ?
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>> At 55, I’m no closer to knowing than I was at 5.
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>> Turn the key, flick the switch.
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>> I accept the consequent changes ignorantly.
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>> I suppose it is pleasant enough. I wouldn’t say
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>> I’m wide-eyed. More even-eyed: seeing without discernment.
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>> So long as the world doesn’t betray my naiveté.
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>> Bill Wootton 15.4.12
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