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Thank you Pat, the poetaster. Please feel free to fill me in on matters poetryetc. billetc. On 23/05/2012, at 6:20 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes and welcome from Patrick the geriatric poetaster from Raynes Park > -London > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Douglas Barbour > Sent: 22 May 2012 21:17 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: First post > > Yes, welcome. > > And what Roger said. > > And then, to get the fiction going a bit more, for more fun: I see why the > passive constructions for the 'I', but maybe more active ones for all those > others that come in the first lines of the couplets? > > Doug > On 2012-05-22, at 6:34 AM, Roger Collett wrote: > >> Welcome Bill, >> >> Just a tip. >> When you post here don't cut and paste from Word. >> Use a text file from something like Notepad and you wont get the surplus > linefeeds. >> >> Nice to have a new subscriber. >> Roger Collett >> Arrowhead Press >> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/ >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Wootton" > <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:17 PM >> Subject: First post >> >> >> Hi all. >> >> Geez you are a hard lot to tap into. Thanks Max, Uche et al for walking me > through the subscription minefields. >> >> Now, is this what I do? Attach a poem and await comment? >> >> >> >> Surrounded by Competents >> >> >> Everyone seems to know what to do. >> >> I am bewildered. >> >> >> >> Stepping in to the breach seems so natural for others. >> >> Whenever I do, it’s as a rabbit in the headlights. >> >> >> >> The hands of others manoeuvre and tinkle. >> >> Mine hold, at best. >> >> >> >> Everyone’s a player or wants to be. >> >> I spectate. >> >> >> >> It seems so natural to get involved. >> >> For me, it’s always an effort. >> >> >> >> Competent tradies do and do and do. >> >> I am awed by their air of efficiency and sureness. >> >> >> >> I panic into offering what unskilled assistance I can. >> >> Initiativelessly. >> >> >> >> Even opinions seem ready on the lips of others >> >> While mine, such as they are, I have to summon. >> >> >> >> Are they kidding? I wonder. >> >> My natural tendency is to wait. >> >> >> >> My blood pressure is lizard low. >> >> The world seems full of pulsing bubblers. >> >> >> >> Tentativeness is both my opening and fallback position. >> >> Footholds are all I gain. >> >> >> >> Cooking: I still can’t quite acknowledge >> >> the transformation from raw to plateworthy. >> >> >> >> Cars: how the hell do they work ? >> >> At 55, I’m no closer to knowing than I was at 5. >> >> >> >> Turn the key, flick the switch. >> >> I accept the consequent changes ignorantly. >> >> >> >> I suppose it is pleasant enough. I wouldn’t say >> >> I’m wide-eyed. More even-eyed: seeing without discernment. >> >> >> >> So long as the world doesn’t betray my naiveté. >> >> >> >> Bill Wootton 15.4.12 > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Latest books: > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h > tml > > > Why can’t words mean what they say? > > Robert Kroetsch > > > > > > > > > > > > > >