I’’m not sure whether I’m back or lurking - but I’ll see what I can add.
Martin
> On 16 Jun 2015, at 10:39 pm, Tina Bass <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ah Patrick! Still the provocateur I see?
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>> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:49:57 +0100
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: poems posted here
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> Welcome back Tina snaps are a bit shortvthese days all the old poets seem to
>> be past it!:-)
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Tina Bass
>> Sent: 16 June 2015 11:26
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: poems posted here
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>> One lurker revealed...
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>> Hello all! I'm here/back/returned.
>> I might even send in a poem tomorrow.
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>> In order that people may be
>> happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it;
>> they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in
>> it.
>> -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
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>>> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:05:59 +1000
>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: poems posted here
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>>> Yes, de-lurk brothers and sisters. And a touch more poetic discussion
>>> would be handy, as well as poems.
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>>> Andrew
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>>> On 20 April 2015 at 21:17, Patrick McManus
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>>>> L Yes it was Patrick -and I will try harder in future to make
>>>> malicious comments -him Patrick old mean nasty Raynes Parker
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>>>> Sent: 20 April 2015 10:23
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: poems posted here
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>>>> Returning from silence.... I think it was Patrick who made a plea
>>>> for others to post
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>>>> I was thinking, am thinking, it may be timely to remark to all that
>>>> those of us who regularly post here do not have any privileged
>>>> status to do so
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>>>> I'd encourage others to post - delurk brothers and sisters
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>>>> i find trying (thought sometimes failing) to post Wednesdays, does
>>>> encourage me to produce
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>>>> I find the comments that follow to be supportive or at least neutral
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>>>> can't remember the last malicious comment even though it is unlikely
>>>> that we are all sympathetic to everything: it seems to me to be a
>>>> civilised place to post; and I welcome the sharing
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>>>> I often find myself explaining why I have done something i.e. not
>>>> making any change; but I d learn from comments; and things such as
>>>> exchanges of information about differences of usage I find
>>>> interesting and helpful
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>>>> so...
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