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Hi, Helen-- What's stopping you from initiating threads on any of the worthy topics you enumerate below? Or from enjoying Hugh's Olympics poems project? Not me. All I was seeking was a bit less complaining about discussions that others were engaged in and/or following for _their_ pleasure or enlightenment. Cheers, Candice >that's fine, if it's good for you - but many of us (and we joined this list >because it is TOP OF THE RANGE!) might like to discuss - with those of like >minds, some other aspects of poetry like writing a tanka, haiku, pantoum, >acrostic, sonnet, ballad, free verse, cinquain, villanelle, - the list is >endless. Many of us might want to talk about imagery, rhythm, rhyme, simile, >metaphor, senses, colour, humour, enjambment, satire, macaronic verse, >malapropism, masculine rhyme, feminine ending, metaphysical metonymy, motif, >muse, irony (why is it missing from modern/postmodern verse?) mood, tone, >canto, minnesingers and... and... and... and... >I didn't know about slant rhymes until Jon Corelis told me about them, duh! >Poetry is a lifetime - a life's work - please forgive this insistence but it >is so diverse, so dense, so loved, that we who slave over the page want to >immerse ourselves IN IT! > >while still others >likely to post a declaration of their own interests) >joined this list to network > >I joined the list because I'm on the internet and love doing web sites. >Lately I have met a great WA poet (unsung) by the name of Frances Arnett >Sbrocchi and I'm constructing a web site for her (& eventually teaching her >too) because her poetry is amazing and she should be heard around the world! >Her poetry is full of imagery, the female voice, it has a folklore quality, >rhythm - it sings on the page and it is short and doesn't bore the reader! >We are not all into epics either. > >Hugh's idea about writing about the Olympics is the best thing that has come >out of this web ring in the last 2 months! >HH %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%