Thursday, March 17, 2005

Geezer Poets Comments

Rating: 3.6

geezer poets with your guns ablaze
who pathetically pine for your glory days

who shoot down young poets at every whim
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Rev. Dr. A. Jacob Hassler
COMMENTS
Robert Howard 28 June 2007

Love it. The wonderful irony of this is in it's impeccable rhyme which is a rather conservative way to put a poem together. A lot of geezers would approve the form while grumbling about the content.

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Vincent James Turner 26 November 2006

love it all, the last two lines says it all! Robin

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Goldy Locks 15 July 2006

i thought this was great, DIEnamic. stickin' it to the man, as God intended. & nice rhymes. Sus.

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Mike Finley 14 April 2006

Owwwwwww! !

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Declan McHenry 18 March 2006

Shooting from the hip. A neat and fun piece. Enjoyed! ! ! ! ! ! !

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Eric Paul Shaffer 05 January 2006

Scary stuff, and nice work with rhyme.

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Cj Heck 25 November 2005

Excellent poem, Jake - although I'm feeling like I might be one of the geezers, Lord, help me. But I did enjoy reading this poem. My warmest regards and respect, CJ

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Michael Shepherd 19 October 2005

...yeah, I could be like that when I'm older... neat as always, Jake. Rich Hanson too has a sharp poem about an ex-hot geezer poet on the faculty staff...

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Marcy Jarvis 22 September 2005

yes, yes LOL until I realize I AM a geezer poet to any 30 year old.

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Uriah Hamilton 08 September 2005

Not a bad poem, but I hope one day, you and I become geezer poets, I think I hope that, I don't hope the part about putting other poets' work down.

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Amberlee Carter 17 March 2005

awww, jake, why ya got to be so mean? la sigh... hey, you ever read this piece? To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine YOU say, as I have often given tongue In praise of what another's said or sung, 'Twere politic to do the like by these; But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? William Butler Yeats

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Herbert Nehrlich1 17 March 2005

Lest you think so, I did not rate your poem numerically. Couldn't allow myself to stoop that low. H

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Herbert Nehrlich1 17 March 2005

I thought this rather immature, even for a poet that has not as yet reached geezer territory (and never may) . I thought we had a bit of a consensus to try to 'get along', to pull back the fangs somewhat, basing at least the immediate future upon mutual respect? This, Jake, is not a good example. Shows the advantage that geezers enjoy: Life experience and maturity. Motto after 50.....NMB (no more bullshit) . What are YOU doing? H

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