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I like your poetry very much, WFAT. This is NOT a reflection on your work, but have you thought about doing something on the Bad Poetry thread? If you can write good poetry (and you can), then I bet you could do some really good Bad Poetry, (yes, it's a paradox). Please don't take this the wrong way, it's a definite compliment, not a criticism!

Jabs

Thanks, Jabs. I have seen the Bad Poetry thread, and have even posted there once or twice. However, I already subscribe to far more threads than is good for me, and really need to cut down, so I decided to unsubscribe from that one.
Some of the pieces there are so bad that they're good, it's true, but some are so, so bad that they're terrible. As I said to el D, what we really need is a Not So Bad Poetry thread.

OK, understood, WFAT.

Best wishes,

Jabs

Jabs, I just saw your comment about Poet Tree on the song titles thread. Was it of any significance? If so, I don't understand it.

Cheers,

WFAT,

I had nosed in to one of the threads on your site out of possible interest, which turned out to be a 2-way discussion with someone (I forget who) in which you expressed puzzlement (temporary I'm sure) that another BBC site had a 'Poet Tree'. You claimed at the time not to have understood it, I think. It was quite near the beginning of the thread, so no wonder you can't remember it. I didn't mean anything nefarious by it.



Jabs

Ah, I see. That would have been my Good Poetry? discussion with el D. Poet Tree is a poetry quotation thread on the Radio 4 Mornington Crescent board. It was probably el D who was expressing puzzlement, as I persuaded him to subscribe and he was rather surprised by some of the idiotic rules imposed by the mods over there. He's still posting, though, which is good.

Cheers,

Jabs,

I may not have made much of a contribution to your BP thread (other than inadvertently upsetting winternights) but I did bring you frankandsense, who seems to have livened it up no end. It's going great guns now, even though Frank is away on holiday.

FAS is a splendid contributor, WFAT, but so are you. Don't be so modest.

Sorry for the mix-up over the Poet Tree.

Jabs

Hi Jabs,

You've been very conspicuous by your absence recently. Is everything ok?

Frank has been similarly conspicuous. I'm a bit worried about him, as I know he's the wrong side of seventy and lives on his own.

Hope all is well.

Fine, thanks, WFAT. Not logging on much theae days as v. busy.

Regards

Jabs

Still trypoing though!