The Four-Day Poetry Crisis Autumn 2015 Comments
To all my fellow poets at POEMHUNTER
This even is so rare in the scheme
of things it has no name peculiar
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I have voted this poem a ten, but I wonder: Did you mean This EVENT is so rare instead of This EVEN is so rare (?) also Could it be A hoax instead of Could it be AS hoax?
Absolutely right on both counts: EVENT and A HOAX. I proofread but missed these two. One of my aunts was a professional proof reader, if only I had inherited her skills! I will correct them if I can figure out how.
Wow! I love this! I will add it to my favorite poems list! Thanks.
I appreciate your enthusiasm especially since I wrote this poem for ALL OF US. I know how people's indifference to poetry can KILL its spirit but how can we show them its wonders? ? But we won't give up, right? We'll keep on trying to affirm poetry to those who mare indifferent, even hostile.
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8/11/2025 7:25:36 AM # 1.0.0
interesting poem! only yesterday I thought: poets make a mistake when they turn to the audience and read their poems to their friends, lovers, other readers. they should turn from the audience and turn to the opposite wall - I would put an icon there f.e, - and read their poems to Him, to God. it will put away many of such questions of misunderstansing or underestimation. bold idea, ah?