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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
I can name a bunch of Brit poets...but usually choose not to, because for the most part, contemporary British poetry is shit when compared to contemporary poetry from the US, or Brasil, or even Canada. it's just the reality of the situation.
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
A: this one here will suffice ^
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Q. How many British poets does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. This question cannot be answered because of the cruel North American-centrism of the world of poetry and, to a lesser extent, poesy, in the entire history of the English language.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Monday, 20 July 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link