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Re: nice to have ya back
Likewise, Ray. Be talkin' to ya!
posted by
2902
on March 11, 2012 at 7:33 PM
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nice to have ya back
really enjoyed the poem...ray
posted by
Raysongs
on March 11, 2012 at 9:19 AM
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Re: Hi, Mariss! I still get a chill figuring out where the sun has to be
in order to light up the moon the way it does!!! It's really cosmic thinking, imagining the part of the globe that's in daylight while we're in nightfall! And it's just reflected light!
Too much. Be well!
posted by
2902
on March 5, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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Re: Hi, Sam! Keep 'em flyin'!
posted by
2902
on March 5, 2012 at 7:23 PM
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Re:Boy, am I happy to hear from you! It's mutual: I thought I'd heard the
last of YOU, too! No, I haven't become a recluse, but as you know, BLOGIT - if you do it right and do a lot of regular commenting - is a hell of a lot of work! The habit of posting something each day was good discipline to keep me writing. As for this last "moon" poem, it was forgotten in my files and needed a little tinkering. I worked on it, found it was again eating up the time I was trying to reclaim, and so just posted it as is/was. It's still not right and graceful. I've gotten 2 poems printed in The Cynic, an on-line magazine, and am batting my stuff into theme groups so I can self-publish the good ones in one or two little chapbooks. It's interesting work in its own right.
I'm finding a lot of fun and challenge in delivering my stuff at poetry slams and open-mike nights - to hell with inhibitions. I get a lot of satisfaction from acting like a teenager at age 77. Fishing season IS approaching - I used my license only once last summer, thanks to mornings and evenings spent on BLOGIT- and I'm looking forward to angling from my little kayak. What's more, on my hikes I'm finding hidden ponds back where I shouldn't go (gated communities and reservoirs). It's a little bush-league adventure. Like Twain said, Stolen apples are the sweetest.
Your note meant more to me than you know. Let's keep in touch. - Bob
posted by
2902
on March 5, 2012 at 7:20 PM
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Nice to see you back! I did like your poem! sam 
posted by
sam444
on March 5, 2012 at 7:06 PM
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I love to watch the moon in it's colors and phases and have just been charmed by it late this afternoon and was thinking of writing a poem about the setting it was in. So many of us look better at a distance!! Good facts in the poem too.
posted by
mariss9
on March 5, 2012 at 5:40 PM
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Well I kind of got a sickly feeling about the moon used to write poetry about up the stairway of this sky doth climb the moon proud mistress of the fiery Sun, once it was landed upon that was the finish. I then found in later years that I hated it when it became full of light, I could see the devastation it was causing to those who suffer from Alzheimer's. Nevertheless one cannot avoid seeing the beauty it reflects on images throughout a moonlit night. Hey Bob, have you just realised this all takes time, I must say you have really improved your work I have become a misery and joined the monastery over at the Journal. One day I read what Jay said to someone, " I thought the Journal was a place where one should write every day." Well as you know that it is almost impossible, and I only, well mainly do re-posts these days. It is nice to see you back again and I hope Ginny is well. I was going to write and ask how you were but I wondered if you had gone into recluse. If you wonder why I am writing so much, the simple answer is I now operate the software which I told you about. Anyway you have not wasted your time this is a nice poem, but I will tell you a secret, there is no money in poetry and no poetry in money, but I know you have heard that before. It will soon be fishing season.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 5, 2012 at 6:42 AM
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Re: Re: Hi, Rhonda! Thanks for your visit and good words! I never realized
how addictive Blogit poetry had become for me! I hope you're well!
posted by
2902
on March 4, 2012 at 8:06 PM
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Re: Hi, Rhonda! Thanks for your visit and good words! I never realized ho
posted by
2902
on March 4, 2012 at 8:03 PM
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Different, interesting, and very good! Great to have you drop in!
posted by
adnohr
on March 4, 2012 at 7:29 PM
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Re: I like this concept of likening us to the Moon. a new take on moon poetry.
Thanks, Kabu, the idea appealed to me as well. It seemed a novel angle to explore.
posted by
2902
on March 4, 2012 at 6:58 PM
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I like this concept of likening us to the Moon. a new take on moon poetry.
posted by
Kabu
on March 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM
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Re: It's nice. So easy to be moonstruck, especially in May
The moon just took my fancy a month or so ago, so I sat down and wrote something. When I ran across it today, I had to tinker with it, and I'm glad I did. How are you?
posted by
2902
on March 4, 2012 at 6:21 PM
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Re: Jay, its' really a revelation what a good night's sleep can do!!
posted by
2902
on March 4, 2012 at 6:18 PM
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The poem was great Bob, but pails to seeing that you are back. I know what you mean about taking up so much time, and like you, sometimes I get weary of it all too and think about better things to waist time on.
posted by
UtahJay
on March 4, 2012 at 4:47 PM
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It's nice. So easy to be moonstruck, especially in May
when our moon is at the full. I like this poem, especially the cadence.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 4, 2012 at 3:24 PM
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