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is this real? does Mr. o have an email address? ----- Original Message ----- From: "kent johnson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Cc: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: An amazing letter from Australia > Subsubpoetics > > =========================== ListBot Sponsor ========================== > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb > ====================================================================== > > (To: Mr. Kent Johnson) > > Dear Mr. Johnson; > > I have been answering the tests you have given on the british-poets > discussion group, which I read through the Archives pages at Jiscmail. I > also read other lists on a daly basis there-- there are a good lot of them > at JiscMail. > > I live in the desert in Australia. If you do not mind, I would like to send > you my answers. But I cant do so on e-mail since my answers have the > diagrams and constructions where you have required them. But I don't know > your adress, of course. So: Could you mail if to me Please? I think that > even although your questions are sometimes funny <grin X 7!> I have done my > best to be serious because architecture and poetry is important. > > Do you know how I would mail my poetry to Mr. Dick Trantner at Jacket > Magazine? I know he is in australia, but with the internet what are > countries when you think about it? > > I am sending an ARS POETICA I have written, for your enjoyment. And below it > is a poem, as a sampel, one of over probably 10,000 that I have composed. > > Sincerely, > > John R. O'Brien > > *** > > My Reasons For, My Love of Poetry > > My Poetry is written for two main reasons, one is to express my feelings and > the other is to tell a story. > > Expressing my feelings with poetry is probably the easiest way I can tell > someone I love and care for them, also, at the same time I can relate within > my poetry my innermost feelings of what matters most to me in life. > > Telling a story within my poetry is a unique way for me to tell a story of > something homorous or dramatic that I have experienced in my life. > > My poetic antidotes of fictitious people, places, strange animals and > creatures are mostly built on fact, > (but I have of course stretched the truth a bit). > > So for these reasons, I believe that, correct spelling, proper punctuation > and good grammar is not necessarily a requirement for the writing of > humorous, light hearted or serious poetry. > > John Rodney O'Brien (Australian poet) > > ~~~ A Red Rose ~~~ > > My dearest darling I reveal, > Within my heart the love I feel, > For you my sweet I do suppose, > Your beauty is a red, red rose. > > The red, red rose you gave to me, > It gave to me the ecstasy, > The ecstasy of pure bliss, > Whence my love we first did kiss. > > That was the most amazing thing, > Within my heart that kiss did ring, > It rang into my very soul, > My emotions, I'll not control. > > I'll not control my greatest fear, > My fear is to lose you dear, > For if I loose you I should cry, > Within my heart then I shall die. > > I shall die and not return, > To let my heart forever burn, > For if my heart should burn and fade, > I'll not be there to love again. > > It's not right to love and stray, > Too another every day, > I must keep your love so true, > And give my love to only you. > > I'd need to give you all my love, > The love it comes from up above, > I send it darling straight to you, > Like a bolt of lightning from the blue. > > İR.J.O'Brien ~ March 30, 1998 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to [log in to unmask]