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GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } Started conversation Jun 13, 2007
Entry: Residues - A23808585
Author: GrumpyAlembic - U7670313
Its funny how some poems seem to write themselves as this one did, although I have revised it slightly since. I wrote it sitting in my car waiting for a visitor to a patient suffering a mental breakdown.
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LL Waz Posted Jun 14, 2007
Very cool stuff - I love it. Yesterday I liked it for the sound and words and some of the ideas started. Today I googled Maslow to better understand the whole (I do like writing that makes me go and look things up). Many thanks for this,
Waz
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GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } Posted Jun 14, 2007
I'm glad you like it and it has lead you onward. Thank you for you kind comments. GA
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minorvogonpoet Posted Jun 22, 2007
A poem to make one think. I like the use of line-end rhyme and internal rhymes. (Though I'd normally avoid an inversion like 'No marks do they engrave.')
It made me think of Sebastian Faulk's 'Human Traces', which I've recently read and added to my personal list of 'great literature'.
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GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } Posted Jun 22, 2007
I've not really got into Sebastian Faulks. Again I am pleased it strikes a cord. GA
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 7, 2007
Sorry to be so slow getting around to this. But worth the wait.
Nor history to corrupt at all...I like that.
The idea reminds me a bit of the ending of 'Cyrano'. Thanks.
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GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } Posted Jul 12, 2007
My line has been down so I've just got your message thanks for your comments.
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watchfulmriduldas Posted Jul 13, 2007
Yes, imagination, but later part sujective.
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A23808585 - Residues
- 1: GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } (Jun 13, 2007)
- 2: LL Waz (Jun 14, 2007)
- 3: GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } (Jun 14, 2007)
- 4: minorvogonpoet (Jun 22, 2007)
- 5: GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } (Jun 22, 2007)
- 6: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jul 7, 2007)
- 7: GrumpyAlembic {Keeper of 143, comfort zones and vacillations } (Jul 12, 2007)
- 8: watchfulmriduldas (Jul 13, 2007)
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