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My God, Martin, where those lines ended by the time your post got to me! 'I cooked several people' -- for a moment, I almost believed you. Oubliette, indeed! joanna ----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:07 PM Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision >I am proud always to have been a dabbler - in life, in music, in poetry, in >ballet (ah! who remembers my fluted demi-piranhas in Schmidt-Cremoni's >*Dragonballs*) & cooking (I cooked several people's geese but they hardly >noticed), not to mention self-abuse of several kinds - et j'en oublie. > mj > > MC Ward wrote: > >>Hi Patrick and Laura, >> >>I think of a poetry "pro" as someone who writes >>seriously as a vocation, while an amateur is a dabbler >>in poetry. I have yet to see any dabblers on this >>list. >> >>Candice >> >> >> >> >>--- Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> >>wrote: >> >> >>>Well here in the Uk a pro is some-one who sells >>>themselves I would def like to reassure every body that I am >>>not a poetry pro though >>>-perish the thought -you know what they are like! >>>I love this site so many storms in so many teacups >>>such dramas it has given >>>me a new lease of life as I don't get out so much >>>Cheers to all >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics >>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >>>Behalf Of Laura Heidy >>>Sent: 10 April 2007 01:08 >>>To: [log in to unmask] >>>Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision >>> >>>What makes a person a "pro"? >>> Lo >>> >>> >>> >>>************************************** See what's >>>free at >>>http://www.aol.com. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >>Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink >>Q&A. >>http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 >> >> > > -- > A man may write of love, and not be in love, as well as of husbandrie, and > not goe to plough: or of witches, and be none: or of holinesse, and be > flat prophane. - Giles Fletcher the Elder.