tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post2733096406508483013..comments2016-01-08T11:15:49.740+00:00Comments on John Toon - A Cry For Help: February's ice and sleet...John Toonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16211705422326119054noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-54236799157936338642010-03-04T21:43:34.454+00:002010-03-04T21:43:34.454+00:00A little unlikely, unless the Microcon programme i...A little unlikely, unless the Microcon programme includes a satellite link-up to NZ on Saturday morning (or, from where I'm sitting - tomorrow evening). Are you on Skype?<br /><br />Re "beat my elf", the "s" is voiced but not written.John Toonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16211705422326119054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-7789611150070492392010-03-04T09:58:01.996+00:002010-03-04T09:58:01.996+00:00"Euphemism", even.
And I see you have n..."Euphemism", even.<br /><br />And I see you have now successfully moved to Lower Hutt. Congratulations.<br /><br />So...<br /><br />Are you coming to Microcon this weekend?Darrel Manuelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-20182210487339173662010-03-04T09:55:34.040+00:002010-03-04T09:55:34.040+00:00Beat your elf?
Is that a euphamism?Beat your elf?<br /><br />Is that a euphamism?Darrel Manuelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-57184686970748375152010-03-04T01:27:24.973+00:002010-03-04T01:27:24.973+00:00Darrel: I thought I'd fixed that profile alrea...Darrel: I thought I'd fixed that profile already. Must be a problem with Blogger's elves. I shall beat my elf soundly later.<br /><br />Strabec: I haven't much zest<br />To field comments in verse;<br />I fancy a rest,<br />And so - the pills, nurse!<br /><br />CP: Yes. I grant you, line after line of tum-te-tum-te-tum-te-tum, te-tum-te-tum-te-tum doesn't appeal much, but then John Toonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16211705422326119054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-88839501767170065122010-03-03T21:49:56.793+00:002010-03-03T21:49:56.793+00:00English professors in the audience - are you tryin...English professors in the audience - are you trying to goad me into response, Toon? On the subject of metrical regularity, there's such a thing as too much of it - try reading anything written entirely in iambs or trochees and you'll soon see why (and no, armchair critics, Shakespeare is not written in unvarying iambic pentameter, contrary to whatever the aforementioned GCSE English Christopher Pittardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10266343173707193124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-43149192388744417322010-03-03T14:36:39.026+00:002010-03-03T14:36:39.026+00:00Poetry as a form of prose
can pose a problem I sup...Poetry as a form of prose<br />can pose a problem I suppose.<br />So if you care to take a seat,<br />I say poems must have a beat<br />or rhythm to each line<br />which if possible, might just rhyme.<br /><br />But not just a waste of time<br />are poems with no rhyme.<br />They too deserve some space<br />and have a proper time and place.<br />For this comment I chose rhyme,<br />but if I had Strabechttp://veggieroama.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-8065170910967266152010-03-03T09:48:41.667+00:002010-03-03T09:48:41.667+00:00I don't know. I'm not sure if it's som...I don't know. I'm not sure if it's something about the nature of this kind of poetry that makes it easy, or whether you just have an inate knack for it, but I think that poem (or whatever) wasn't half bad.<br /><br />Particularly the stanza starting "Sometimes I like to imagine" which I think might be able to stand on its own, with little rewriting.<br /><br />BTW, how Darrel Manuelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-58582617914097724992010-03-02T09:33:24.111+00:002010-03-02T09:33:24.111+00:00I knew it! I knew I'd get comments!
I liked ...I knew it! I knew I'd get comments!<br /><br />I liked a couple of yours, actually, but thought I'd better pick a representative one. Two might have seemed a bit too trowelled-on, y'know. But I might have mentioned the "Come and look at the stars, Natasha" one, which seemed like the sort of thing I might whimsically imagine happening on the ISS.<br /><br />As for John Toonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16211705422326119054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35574425.post-16210831625145836062010-03-02T09:21:58.286+00:002010-03-02T09:21:58.286+00:00I enjoyed your review of Voyagers - no offence tak...I enjoyed your review of Voyagers - no offence taken at all! Glad you liked one of my poems from the anthology.<br /><br />Also, that whole "blog post poetry" thing you have going may have legs. A year or so's blog postings, and you could have a fine blog poetry collection completed. :-)Tim Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.com