A poem

good thinking
but then, you should read the modern poet anthology

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Shine on you crazy diamond

_when I go forward, You go backward, and somewhere We will meet_

Gearld's Panda dancing,
thorin's melodica playing.
Two intelligent minds,
far from agreeing.
If Optimus returned,
would it change things?
Or is it a never ending struggle,
to get the last word in?

sorry, you two just entertain me alot with your posts...

if practice makes perfect
and nobody's perfect
so why practice

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Shine on you crazy diamond

_when I go forward, You go backward, and somewhere We will meet_

as a new comer i found that gerald and thorin disagreement is quite amusing

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Shine on you crazy diamond

_when I go forward, You go backward, and somewhere We will meet_

We only disagree because he's wrong so much of the time.

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I've read quite a bit of modern poetry, and quite a bit of it is very good. My problem with amateur poets is that they assume all you need to make a poem is vague language and line breaks (and maybe a lot of end rhyme). No one knows what 'meter' is, or why one would ever want to use a 'concrete image,' or the difference between a liquid sound and a glottal stop. They just dash out their thoughts in 'poetic' language and expect it to be just as good as Cairns or Cummings or Eliot.

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of course you only think that because you think you are right. idiot.

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last orders please.

Actually it is the meter which prevents me from from writing poetry. I don't really have any sense of rhythm. The reasons you state are exactly why I usually ignore posts from the poem section.

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stchrissie is not me.

I keep reading them because I'm a masochist.

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Well I can't write really, and am about as creative as Nick Mason, so get really impressed when I see anyone write anything creative. Everything I write sounds like baa baa black sheep, not that there's anything wrong with it.

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The quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox

well i suppose Cairns or Cummings or Elliot started as amateurs and one day they time came and then they considered as "experts"

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Shine on you crazy diamond

_when I go forward, You go backward, and somewhere We will meet_

so thorin is a he
to me his id and comments sounds feminime
(no offense thorin)

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Shine on you crazy diamond

_when I go forward, You go backward, and somewhere We will meet_

There's nothing wrong with being amateur. There is something wrong with writing something the form of which you don't understand.

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i suppose the problem is on you then

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Shine on you crazy diamond

_when I go forward, You go backward, and somewhere We will meet_

How's that?

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