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Pat_B
Thank you for your long ... and really fascinating comment! A lot to ponder, and I'm still thinking about it!
A kindred spirit indeed!
I am very grateful for your continuing support, and also those of my regular readers. Thank you.
el Tel
posted by
ariel70
on October 5, 2006 at 11:37 AM
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Tio David
Thanks for calling in. Yep, that would be real nice! I'll email you tomorrow, okay?
el Tel
posted by
ariel70
on October 5, 2006 at 11:34 AM
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Troosha
Thanks for dropping in. Much appreicated!
el tel
posted by
ariel70
on October 5, 2006 at 11:33 AM
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I know what you mean about coming away from a piece of art or reading some modern poetry and scratching your head wondering what the heck you were supposed to draw from it. I, perhaps, I am guilty of writing oblique poems from time to time (sometimes I even have to read them twice!). But I remain a sponge to the range of artistry – be it words or a masterpiece of another medium. If anything, I try to envisage the artist. Your offering of a “traditional” poem today was wonderful!
posted by
Troosha
on October 3, 2006 at 10:14 AM
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El Tel, I think you might be needing some Hemingway for the El Toro Basho defence.
I must admit to a wicked laugh over 'c* * * books'
"One man's fish is another man's poisson" That's great. Is that yours?
I think I've read that poem before from you and it certainly bears more than two outings I'd say. I'm a big fan of the romantic poets and this one does certainly fall in that tradition. Lilting and flowing and full of passion and nature.
A thought on the poems - why don't you set up another blog where you store all the poems together. I do this. I often repost them in my journal because I'm proud of some of them. It'd be good for bloggers who really like the poetry - they'd be able to find them all together.
If you do them as separate posts, I'll set up a series of links that you can copy, so bloggers can click to find the other poems.
Pasta Lego.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 3, 2006 at 9:50 AM
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one man's fish is anothers poisson --
too funny! I like the classics because they're instrumentals with no emotional ties. Same reason I like jazz instrumentals, the progressive, beat-driven plays with wandering musical solos take you through a metaphorical shaded grove or along a raging current with waterfalls. It's some pure unrelated-to-me expression, a calling bird song or the surf of traffic along a street.
There are certain songs I cannot hear without an immediate clutch at the heart: the theme from "A Summer Place" was a major hit by the Percy Faith orchestra in the early 1960s when the movie was big. During that time I divorced the devil and began to trust the intentions of a good guy. We danced to that tune around the kitchen for years after we were married. So the automatic joyous response comes in the first eight bars. Then I remember: that "good guy" turned out to be a lying cheating rat. My mind's eye lights immediately on the album cover, a big smiling photo of Percy Faith. One of the kids had taken a magic marker to it and blacked out three or four teeth. At first it made me mad, but now it makes me grin.
posted by
Pat_B
on October 3, 2006 at 8:27 AM
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