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Is that a real question? If so, I'm with Barry, having no more trouble with the prosaic in poetry than I do with the poetic in prose. Hal Flotsam, please, and a side order of jetsam. Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html On Jan 27, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Barry Alpert wrote: > Sharon, > > I'd have no problem with designating your work "a poem", although I > find it > a bit too prosaic for my taste. The subject rhymes with some of > my "familial material", but at present I'm much less energized by > those > matters and vastly more excited by Yves Klein (and the Nouveaux > Realistes). More on him in a moment. > > > Barry Alpert > > > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:25:12 +0200, kasper salonen > <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> not a poem, but a good snap I say. >> an interesting whole here, a bit of tragedy & nonchalance. >> >> >> >> On 27/01/2008, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> asked," "Is this a >> poem?" > > > >>> telephone call with my mother >>> >>> she called last night >>> after watching an oprah show >>> about children of divorce >>> >>> she wanted to know what i felt >>> fifty-three years ago >>> when she left my father >>> >>> she said that she knew >>> she'd never asked and never >>> told me why >>> >>> she wanted exoneration >>> and i granted it >>> we all do the best we can >>> >>> and how much worse it would have been >>> had she stayed with an angry >>> drinking man >>> >>> she told me that when i was three >>> and she sent me to stay >>> with my grandparents >>> >>> i told them: i always know >>> when daddy comes home drunk >>> because he wakes me up >>> >>> and does any of this matter now >>> into this new century >>> that will close on us both? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> ~ SB | http://www.sbpoet.com | =^..^= >>>