I am the string around yr finger
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ unfortunate david carradine reference there
― Aimless, Thursday, 11 June 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ed & i not that close, aimless
― roman knockwell (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 11 June 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
This poll is closing soon.
Sincerly yours,
Aimless the Unsystematic
― Aimless, Friday, 12 June 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i think elmo has won it for me. but only because it is tacky to vote for oneself.
― the table is the table, Friday, 12 June 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm glad that I hounded dude into participating, it paid off
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 12 June 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man I totally need to decide
― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Friday, 12 June 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i have voted for jaymc.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 June 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
After the vote everyone should post their poem with all the edits they wish they'd made.
― Beth Parker, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, I posted a different poem to the other thread post-deadline. That would be my edit. Although possibly not. I've edited that one since. Hmm.
― the unfished business of display names only (country matters), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ended up voting hoos btw.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks table -- i take your vote as huge compliment! neat
fwiw i already voted for you, so there
― roman knockwell (elmo argonaut), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
How sad for Poetry,and how unlike muse-maddened days of yore—that one day before the poll slams its door, this thread, hald-deadlike a sweat-stiffened sock from the rock-bottom of the laundry hamper, must be forcibly hauled(holding my nose, appalledat my own entry's flaws) to the top of the pile lest mold take hold.
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
two days, whoops.
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Went with Beth's poem, because of:
The experts advise to write what you know.But what if you can’t? What if your onequickly-dimming filament of decencymandates that you hold back?
Even monsters deserve compassion.
Yes. Yass!
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
the final drive for votes begins here
i mean who likes american poetry anyway, let's be serious folks
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"i" "mean" "who" "likes" "american" "poetry" "anyway", "let's" "be" "serious" "folks"
There, much better.
― Aimless, Monday, 15 June 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean wholikesAmericanpoetryanyway let's be s e r i o u s FOLKS
wholikesAmericanpoetryanyway let's be s e r i o u s
FOLKS
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 15 June 2009 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
just voted for Bateau
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Monday, 15 June 2009 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link
cheers
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 15 June 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
less than 4 hours to vote! future of free world depends etc.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 15 June 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the future of free verse, anyway...
― snoball, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit i forgot to vote
the auld fellas showing us pups how it's done i guess (would have still probably voted elmo)
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Monday, 15 June 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
also fuck y'all obv ;)
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Monday, 15 June 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes--Yass!
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 15 June 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Seeing how I have won second place in a beauty pagent, I demand my $10.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
congrats beth!
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
also abbott's dog wuz robbed
stealing pets is not cool.
― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Hurray for much-merited rewards! Boo for the robbery of innocent doe-eyed canines who only want to smell life to the fullest!
― Aimless, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, thanks guys! What a nice thing to come back home to after a dirty day of work.
We needed more voters—many fabulous poems got no votes!
― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
funny i forgot to vote as well.
i wonder who voted for me?
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Monday, 20 July 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
outrageous americanism in the voting patterns iirc
― mathgasmic! (country matters), Monday, 20 July 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna borrow yr language brb
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ plz explicate.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
every time lj explicates god kils etc
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
but I think he is referring to the number of yanks in the top 10 of polling results
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
god kills etc. <---this is a brilliant line for a poem, thanks.
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Everyone voted for is American (one Canadian), half of those not voted for aren't. :P
Maybe the rest of us need to up our game. I suggest a short-story competition.
― mathgasmic! (country matters), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude, we will so kick yr fannies.
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
and yes, I do know.
LJ it's a true, sorry fact so much poetry is America-centric; I can't name a single UK poet in all of history.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
mick jagger was a poet
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
That name sounds kind of familiar.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I stan for quite a lot of American poetry (hell, my dissertation was on it) but you can't disregard pure unadulterated genius like
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, … stupendousEvening strains to be tíme’s vást, ' womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night.Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, ' her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the heightWaste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, ' stárs principal, overbend us,Fíre-féaturing heaven. For earth ' her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as-tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; ' self ín self steedèd and páshed—qúiteDisremembering, dísmémbering ' áll now. Heart, you round me rightWith: Óur évening is over us; óur night ' whélms, whélms, ánd will end us.Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish ' damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black,Ever so black on it. Óur tale, O óur oracle! ' Lét life, wáned, ah lét life windOff hér once skéined stained véined variety ' upon, áll on twó spools; párt, pen, páckNow her áll in twó flocks, twó folds—black, white; ' right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mindBut thése two; wáre of a wórld where bút these ' twó tell, each off the óther; of a rackWhere, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, ' thóughts agaínst thoughts ín groans grínd.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
― mathgasmic! (country matters), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"(LJ) is referring to the number of yanks"
i stopped reading right there
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, not THAT mick jagger. I was referring to mick jagger the author of erotic villanelles, he emptied dustbins for a living, died from monge's disease and was buried in a pauper's grave just outside birmingham.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
how many yanks does it take to get lj's goat
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link