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To Whomever...

Good gracious God will you deep- seeded poets , and you know who you are , stop writing about suicide, sex, or any thing about anti- social mores and your own tripe !! . Stick , for the sanity of true poets left ( We are sinking like a boat with Latin all over it ) , to Kilmer, Joyce , Longfellow, etc .   Go to  " The Village Smithy "  , or "  The Old House with Nobody In It "  They are true poems. That's your critique.  Thanks , Whew !!  I feel much better. From the mind of Daniel John Hall Kleinmeier . And don't forget to practice your left-handed poetry , guys . 

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Graham Sherwood

Sun 7th Aug 2011 16:57

I really am a "mollydooker" myself and was preparing a piece about it, now sadly usurped by this.
I didn't really understand the post so similarly cannot understand the fuss.
It looks to have been a right old grouchy Sunday! I'm with Ann Foxglove. Put the grooves on Annie, I'm on my way down there.

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winston plowes

Sun 7th Aug 2011 14:17

Dear Daniel, Your advice please. I am left handed and am unsure how to proceed with your request or for that matter where to find my tripe? I also live on a canal boat with absolutely no latin inscriptions anywhere on it.

yours very concerned, Winston

<Deleted User> (5011)

Sun 7th Aug 2011 13:50

Tripe is a perfectly acceptable subject for poetry: cowheel, slut, elder, honeycomb, all part of that interior world from which the best poetry springs.

Tell you what, even if this 'critique' was well-written - in grammatically correct English, properly punctuated, so forth - it would still not make any positive contribution to the valuable work of this website.

I respect your right to make a fool of yourself though.

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Isobel

Sun 7th Aug 2011 12:42

I'd agree with Ann, Tom and Stefan. And though I respect your opinions, I'd suggest that you go and occupy your own right and left hand in matters other than preaching the rights and wrongs of poetry...

<Deleted User> (6895)

Sun 7th Aug 2011 12:22



its all a question of-rightful-choice.
and its all a question of
respecting each others choice.

although I might not neccessarily
agree with yours-
I sincerely respect it.

and I thank you for your views.

Mr. Stefan Wilde.

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Tom Harding

Sun 7th Aug 2011 10:28

is this for real?
re your off limit subjects, here's what Yeats had to say-
“Sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind.”

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Ann Foxglove

Sun 7th Aug 2011 07:49

I thought it was a free country? We can write what we like. (Typed with my left hand - not!)

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