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hey, enjoyed the way this sums up that burst of vigour one gets from the pumping blood rushing round the system, making you feel more alive

excercise is said to make you feel that way, at least :) i spend far too much time in the pc chair to remember, but your poem makes me think i do, lol

i'd like to come back to this more in-depth than time permits right now, but wat i do hear in this is a lot of heavy, industrial-sized sounds that drive the whole machinery of the work. it relies on sound, imo, and that's not a bad thing - puts me in mind of some great poets from days gone by. it's ...

I adore Walt Whitman's work! thanks for posting this up, heinz :) i know everyone's taste varies, but i find it hard to see how his words can be found boring, lol Flo - each to our own i guess. the man displays amazing breadth of sound, imagery, passion - ooh, i am enamoured of his work. my favourit...

You have a really nice open, friendly site here, Berlie. It's always a pleasure to come visit, so I guess that's thanks to all your crew who make it all happen too. Poetry.Com has, I'm sorry to say, been the bug-bear of writers for a long time. They play on our tender egos, buttering us up with wond...

in love with ... ...the world of Walt Whitman; enamoured of his breadth and width, his ample girth of vowelled sound, from tip to calloused toe am I. enhumbled little i, too full of fraudulent thought, ideals; ideas lack-lust'ring of original 'twould seem pointless to proceed; my piffling scripts w...

thanks guys for your kind comments :) this board will teach me some new tricks I'm sure

I had to take a look at this since I haven't come across a nonet before. I can now see how it works. I'm sure it looks easier than it is, especially to keep the coherence of meaning while pruning the syllables, line by line. Another form to experiment with so thanks for broadening my literary horizo...

Hello: I have been told this piece follows a syllabic meter called enneasyllabic (nine syllables). It would appear that pure syllabic meter is comparatively rare in English, though more common in imported forms such as the Japanese haiku. I have to admit, though, I wrote it just with trying to keep ...

very funny lament based, as is often found, on a subject genuinely found distressing by many in real life! I wonder why we laugh at these things? I dunno, but it made me smile anyway. Hey, you can always go and get it waxed nowadays (ouch!) or get a friend to immac it for you? lol




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