Comments on: The line’s for real http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:03:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: duane sosseur http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-16675 duane sosseur Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:18:48 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-16675 I'm shocked and hurt that my stuffs not good enough for poetry magazine. All my work is for nothing I’m shocked and hurt that my stuffs not good enough for poetry magazine. All my work is for nothing

]]> By: duane sosseur http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-16054 duane sosseur Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:24:04 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-16054 somewhere, someone somehow could be the real thing that I need somewhere, someone somehow could be the smart and sexy woman for me, aw me somewhere, someone somehow, someway up in the sky, I don't know why but she's comin my way could be tonight, or even today somewhere, someone somehow she's callin my name....out loud... and I can hear it, through the crowd she's waiting for me and yes I can see her there somewhere, somehow "Somewhere, Someone Somehow" .......... ...another one of my poems, for real... ..duane somewhere, someone somehow
could be the real thing that I need
somewhere, someone somehow
could be the smart and sexy woman for me, aw me
somewhere, someone somehow, someway
up in the sky, I don’t know why but she’s comin my way
could be tonight, or even today
somewhere, someone somehow
she’s callin my name….out loud…
and I can hear it, through the crowd
she’s waiting for me
and yes I can see
her there
somewhere, somehow

“Somewhere, Someone Somehow”

……….

…another one of my poems, for real…
..duane

]]> By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-15102 Gary B. Fitzgerald Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:50:41 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-15102 Lines and Tygers and... bears. Oh, My! Lines and Tygers and…

bears. Oh, My!

]]> By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-14953 Gary B. Fitzgerald Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:00:42 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-14953 And, to the point of Don's post... not one bad line! The line's for real. And, to the point of Don’s post… not one bad line!

The line’s for real.

]]> By: Gary B. Fitzgerald http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-14950 Gary B. Fitzgerald Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:51:44 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-14950 Michael Robbins said: "I’ve always thought this poem is terrible." Michael: ‘Do not go gentle…” is probably the finest villanelle ever written in English. (I’m sure you know this… I did detect a little mischievous sarcasm back there, didn’t I?) Nevertheless, do you think any of us could do any better? (money/mouth, proof/pudding and all that rot.) :-) Michael Robbins said:

“I’ve always thought this poem is terrible.”

Michael:

‘Do not go gentle…” is probably the finest villanelle ever written in English. (I’m sure you know this… I did detect a little mischievous sarcasm back there, didn’t I?)

Nevertheless, do you think any of us could do any better?

(money/mouth, proof/pudding and all that rot.)

:-)

]]> By: Lilac http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-14734 Lilac Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:18:58 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-14734 92 posts later....arrived to say that this wasn't it either. I was looking for something meaningful here. You can't be serious. Is this all you have to think about in June? No weather or bright bugs? Nostalgic spasms even? Sheesh. 92 posts later….arrived to say that this wasn’t it either. I was looking for something meaningful here.

You can’t be serious. Is this all you have to think about in June? No weather or bright bugs? Nostalgic spasms even?

Sheesh.

]]> By: Christopher Woodman http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-14573 Christopher Woodman Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:11:31 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-14573 No, slow down, Henry, don't rush to conclusions. It's not <i>les petits morts,</i> it's <i>la petite mort!</i> No, slow down, Henry, don’t rush to conclusions. It’s not les petits morts, it’s la petite mort!

]]> By: Henry Gould http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-14569 Henry Gould Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:19:03 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-14569 No, Thomas - make that 700,000. No, Thomas – make that 700,000.

]]> By: Henry Gould http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-14566 Henry Gould Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:07:05 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-14566 all I can say is - "whoopee". "Whoopee", period. all I can say is – “whoopee”. “Whoopee”, period.

]]> By: Henry Gould http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/06/the-lines-for-real/#comment-14564 Henry Gould Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:05:00 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=3795#comment-14564 "Often I am permitted -" kills it right there “Often I am permitted -”

kills it right there

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