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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 12:40amSanction this postReply
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Brilliant work, Marty!

Ed

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 2:31amSanction this postReply
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Thanks, Ed. I am happy to share this with you and the rest of the SOLO community.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 7:17amSanction this postReply
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Lots of sterling lines:

"That, full of things mysterious,"
 
"Mankind yearning to be freed."
 
"Myth, dogma, superstition,
"The wicked alliance of state and religion"

 
"That they'd been replaced by natural law."

Your best work yet, Marty.  This has some real Emersonian sinew in it.






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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:34amSanction this postReply
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Thanks, Jay. I started reading and writing poetry after seeing "Dead Poets Society."

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 11:13amSanction this postReply
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That was pretty cool.
(Edited by Joe Maurone
on 9/14, 9:55pm)


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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:52pmSanction this postReply
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That movie was cool. The English teacher (played by Robin Williams) combined literature, music, sports and spirit in that one scene in which students kicked a soccer ball after reading a noble quote to the sound of heroic music.

Where were teachers like him when I went to high school?



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Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 7:58pmSanction this postReply
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Wow, Marty, a true pleasure.  I liked And the evil enemies of mankind saw
That they'd been replaced by natural law. 


I love it when poetry is informed by the author's knowledge of history.  And when I read someone who has a good sense of aesthetics I want to say, "thank you, thank you so much!"

Joe M:  what did you edit when all you wrote "this is cool?"  :)  I personally dislike the edit notification because I like to sneak back and make changes.  But I guess some people would call that gaslighting.

Julia



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Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 8:58pmSanction this postReply
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Julia, I edited it to clarify that I thought the poem was cool, not referring to the movie (though I have never seen Dead Poets Society, nothing personal.)

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Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 9:03pmSanction this postReply
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Maybe I'll watch that movie again. The last time I watched it it was a chore for a government school.

Marty, excellent poem. I've newly found respect for poetry. Thank you very much.

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Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 3:11pmSanction this postReply
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Great work, Marty.  The message is clear, and it scans quite well.

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Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 1:10amSanction this postReply
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Thanks for the 'job well done.'

Sadly, poetry took a turn for the worse in the last century. I believe that good art requires hard work. I find the following 'poem,' for example, unacceptable.

                                               PAIN
                                                    -author ashamed to add name


PAIN
          PAIN
                    PAIN
                                                             the ouch of it

            up
rolling      and           the turbulent tube
                       down
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Is it clever because the PAIN's are indented? Or that the font size varies? Then there's the brilliant 'the ouch of it' and the lifting and lowering of the 'up' and 'down.' I sympathize with those who find modern poetry less than inspirational. 


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