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Pool

swimming with the sharks
or splashing in the pool
olympic in size or not

the idea is to get the feet wet
look,
there's a poem wiggling
(it's not a toe)
don't let it get away!

Good luck, splash, olympic and shark poolers, have fun and let's learn something. I admit I know little of the logistics about creating poetry; hopefully I can up my game to the next level.

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Thank you very much!
I would love to have you in "Splash Pool" it would be interesting.

Eddie C.

LIFE ISN'T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS
IT'S ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO DANCE IN THE RAIN.
VIVIAN GREENE

Anna,

I think all participants should begin by critiquing this first Workshop poem!

Good stuff, now don't cause too much trouble, you know how delicate Jess is!!

Lol!

HS

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With all that I am and all that I could be, I walk this earth, yet nobody sees me.

hahaha!!

LIFE ISN'T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS
IT'S ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO DANCE IN THE RAIN.
VIVIAN GREENE

No, Ian, I was actually referring to something that Kal wrote on Seren's poem yesterday.. "Do you believe in any structure to poetry? Do you ever attempt to add scansion, count syllables, or attempt a form because though some of your writing is exceptionally full of potential with this regard , more often than not you slap things down and walk from them"

He could have been talking about me, because, though I took a poetry course many years ago, the logistics is long gone, although I keenly remember the poets we had to read and the poems I wrote then.

(Elsewhere, Kal gave an example, without changing one word.)

~A

p.s. Hood, you're a devil in disguise, anna batting her eyelashes (which are not as long as they used to be), who, little ole me a trouble maker? Thanks for the laugh. I love when that happens
especially at my expense. My kids are great in doing that.

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I just wanted to add a bit of commentary. Feel free not to read.

Ian, "Thanks for listening"....pretty much covers why we write poetry. The fact that the *feel* of Neopoet is more user-oriented is often overlooked. Because we tell much and much of it doesn't want to be heard, is what creates dialogue which has an argumentative quality.... debate is healthy and our thoughts don't have to be viewed as *adversarial*...THAT is an unconscious choice, mostly because we have learned it through patterns of repetition.

We often remind each other of significant others, usually adults that have criticized us as children. That we can choose to overcome these unexamined patterns, is part and parcel of growing up. That we can and do overcome our differences and we don't bring our personal issues to the table when we're already beleaguered by the world is a good thing.

And it's a good thing that we always offer one another an olive branch.

~Anna

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