Thanks, Anny, for publicizing this unusual collection ($20 for which I'm sending to Bob--and a bargain at twice the price, I'm sure!). I love haiku and am intrigued by the notion of lyriku. Whenever I'm stuck or otherwise enduring writer's block, I turn to haiku to get myself/my poem up and running. Works like a charm--Candice --- POETRYETC automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There are 16 messages totalling 1005 lines in this > issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. frog poem for kids (11) > 2. Ampersand listing > 3. Bob Grumman > 4. the Poets' Corner > 5. Serious SNOW in Italy (2) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:51:47 +0300 > From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: frog poem for kids > > I like the gnome turn of phrase a lot, Ted Hughes > might very well have > called a frog a gnome > > KS > > On 13/09/2007, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > I also wrote my frog snap as a poem for my > grandkids, just for fun: > > > > WANALIRRI FROGGI > > > > froggy froggy > > you look so funny > > swimming in our dunny! > > > > won't you leave now? > > I have a full tummy - > > go home to Mummy! > > > > green as a leaf > > with long yellow feet > > and eyes so big and sweet > > > > froggy froggy > > you look so funny > > swimming in our dunny! > > > > why don't you swim > > to home sweet home? > > you're green as a gnome! > > > > I'll take you to the well: > > that will suit you swell > > (besides, there's no smell!). > > > > froggy froggy > > you look funny funny funny > > swimming in our dunny! > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Andrew > > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > > http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:57:06 +0300 > From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Ampersand listing > > as an advocate of this particular symbol, this is > fun to me but also > just for the stunning background that theimage seems > to conjure. this > is less abstract than your usual work. questions > jump up like, how > large is this ampersand? is it made of metal (looks > rusty)? who left > it there? where is it? beautiful > > KS > > On 13/09/2007, Peter Ciccariello > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Ampersand listing > <http://cgi7.com/peterimages/ampersand-listing2.jpg> > > > > > > > > -- Peter Ciccariello > > http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:00:58 +0300 > From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Bob Grumman > > I'm all for the distinction Grumman seems to be > making. I have a haiku > essay of my own, it's been in the works for almost > two years but my > interest in haiku waned slightly so it's been > neglected for a long > while. but I've long had a distaste for modern > haiku, and the fashion > in which 'haiku' are masqueraded around in junior > highschool textbooks > & such. the pop culture understanding of the word > haiku is what it is, > and it's a fine linguistic entity in itself; but it > almost always > fails to be separated from the artform, & that kills > me. a bit. > > KS > > On 13/09/2007, Anny Ballardini > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Bob Grumman's great effort: > > http://bobgrumman.com/FromHaikuToLyriku/index.html > > > > go for it! > > > > Anny Ballardini > > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ > > > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome > > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html > > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to > give birth to a dancing > > star! > > Friedrich Nietzsche > > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:51:31 +0100 > From: Robin Hamilton > <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: frog poem for kids > > >I like the gnome turn of phrase a lot, Ted Hughes > might very well have > > called a frog a gnome > > > > KS > > I presume that everyone here is aware that the > modern garden gnome is a > direct result of a strike by eighteenth century > professional hermits? > > True -- read it in the papers. > > One Who Was There > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:05:32 +0100 > From: Peter Cudmore > <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: frog poem for kids > > Boy, those Professional Association of Hermits > annual conferences were > always a riot. > > P > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > > Behalf Of Robin Hamilton > > Sent: 14 September 2007 02:52 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: frog poem for kids > > > > >I like the gnome turn of phrase a lot, Ted Hughes > might very well have > > > called a frog a gnome > > > > > > KS > > > > I presume that everyone here is aware that the > modern garden gnome is a > > direct result of a strike by eighteenth century > professional hermits? > > > > True -- read it in the papers. > > > > One Who Was There > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:21:39 +0100 > === message truncated === ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. 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