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12/29/2007 05:24:07 PM · #301 |
Originally posted by levyj413:
Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
Guys, I'm struggling to choose a Free Study pic. Does anyone fancy helping me pick? |
Always. :) |
Thank you :) |
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12/29/2007 06:24:59 PM · #302 |
I got a Free Study dilemma too. Anyone?
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12/29/2007 06:30:02 PM · #303 |
Originally posted by rheverly:
Perhaps I need to buy a book about poetry and criticism, to learn a bit of structure for my musings. Perhaps that's the academic in me thinking I can learn poetry from a book, rather than from the world around me.
Bruce |
Stephen Fry has a slightly different attitude, maybe. In his book The Ode Less Travelled he actually sets out a twelve part plan (a plan, anyway) for the reader to get the poetry habit, as it were. Not a lot of use to me, in so far as I was thoroughly addicted long before I discovered sex or drugs or rock and roll, or even photography. I did manage to discover all those thing before I found out about things like sestets and enjambments.
It must be a matter of taste, which book or school you prefer. Also, as you bestride the US/UK divide of common language, you may know that 'formalism' is pretty much a West-of-pond term.
The Gazebo is one of the more established on line forums - presumably a matter of taste as well - but it has longevity...
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12/29/2007 07:26:34 PM · #304 |
//criticalpoet.com strikes me as the DPC of poetry forums. A few inspired people, a bunch of people who think they know the "rules" of poetry, and so on. Rob, we should talk!
Happy holidays, suckers!
and dang, I better update my links if people be linking to it! |
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12/29/2007 07:32:07 PM · #305 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I got a Free Study dilemma too. Anyone? |
Jeb, I received your photos, but looks like tomorrow before I can even open them. Paulina marched in the Fiesta Bowl parade this morning and is performing in Glendale Glitters tonight. A moms work is never done.
If someone else could help Jeb out, I would be grateful. |
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12/29/2007 07:34:12 PM · #306 |
Originally posted by basssman7:
Originally posted by snaffles:
OK cat people, you might enjoy this...
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=626860 |
Fixed your thumb  |
I thought this must by  NikonJeb's cat. Everyone else in his house seems to be doing this. |
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12/29/2007 07:52:22 PM · #307 |
here's a poem about the Stupid Gifts theme. I warn you, this could become a new feature. The other suck poets might even join in!
This is a stupid gift.
It doesn't tell my own story.
The color clashes with the walls.
Moonlight sticks in the gears.
I opened a window and the last bird escaped.
The batteries are made of tar.
I can hear it walking on the roof at night.
I suppose it's trying to be rain.
We had a long talk
and ended up on the porch
crushing the paper swans
we had inadvertently folded.
It never laughed.
Returning it created a pressure
of taut skin around my forehead and chest.
It's still throwing patterns on the bedroom wall,
the last thing I see. |
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12/29/2007 07:55:06 PM · #308 |
Today's update is not god.
I'm going tomorrow to see my mom.
Mom's back on the ventilator again, her breathing had gotten very bad, and even on 100% Oxygen, her sat levels are not very good.
She has contracted something that My step-dad called "Respiratory Distress Syndrome". Apparently this is something really bad, which even with a healthy patient, doesn't have a particularly good prognosis.
Well, Mom is going into this distress thing with compromised lung function to begin with - from decades of smoking, from tumors due to cancer. Also one of her lungs has partially collapsed.
Step-dad and Mom have talked - she has expressed her desire to not be kept alive mechanically. So, basically if the measures that are being taken to combat this don't help within the next few days, he is expecting to have to pull the plug and go with purely comfort measures.
This is hard, while I fully and completely understand and agree with her desire not to be kept alive artificially, I'm having a really difficult time with the concept that this could be goodbye.
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12/29/2007 08:03:07 PM · #309 |
| So sorry to hear that, Lea. You're in our thoughts. |
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12/29/2007 08:39:57 PM · #310 |
| kashi, I am sorry to hear this I know what its like i lost my dad this summer and even though he has been sick for a long time you are never ready to let them go. I will be thinking about you. |
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12/29/2007 09:30:25 PM · #311 |
| A difficult decision for everyone, to be sure. Wishing you and your family much strength during this time, Lea. |
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12/29/2007 09:59:49 PM · #312 |
Originally posted by krnodil:
A difficult decision for everyone, to be sure. Wishing you and your family much strength during this time, Lea. |
I can't express my thoughts any better than what Karen said. Me, too!
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12/30/2007 12:12:11 AM · #313 |
| Lea, even though I'm halfway across the planet from you, consider yourself hugged. |
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12/30/2007 01:48:32 AM · #314 |
| Lea, my thoughts are with you. |
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12/30/2007 03:44:51 AM · #315 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I got a Free Study dilemma too. Anyone? |
Never mind.
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12/30/2007 04:41:24 AM · #316 |
Originally posted by kashi:
This is hard, while I fully and completely understand and agree with her desire not to be kept alive artificially, I'm having a really difficult time with the concept that this could be goodbye. |
After saying recently that I don't find haiku satisfying, for some reason today I did. For you, Lea:
Against winter, trees
Bend with an understanding
Inevitable
My thoughts, and those of my family, are with you and yours.
Rob
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12/30/2007 04:49:07 AM · #317 |
| That really is beautiful, Rob. |
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12/30/2007 04:59:37 AM · #318 |
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12/30/2007 05:22:28 AM · #319 |
| In an interesting but completely pointless aside (and the interesting part is subjective), I own my camera page. You will note that I've populated it with a very nice range of scores. :-) At least two more will show up in the next few weeks, too. |
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12/30/2007 05:31:52 AM · #320 |
Great article - thanks for the link. And can you imagine how that Hilton photograph would have scored at DPC?
Being over here, though not near the "real war" by any means (other than the things that go boom), I can say the general population of the US does indeed appear very, very foolish, self-absorbed, and utterly clueless. |
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12/30/2007 06:31:15 AM · #321 |
| Lea, My thoughts and prayers are with you. |
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12/30/2007 06:43:30 AM · #322 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Great article - thanks for the link. And can you imagine how that Hilton photograph would have scored at DPC?
Being over here, though not near the "real war" by any means (other than the things that go boom), I can say the general population of the US does indeed appear very, very foolish, self-absorbed, and utterly clueless. |
I donât think it is a requirement to be âover thereâ to make that observation. LOL
BTW Deb howâs the weather in your desert, over here in the Mojave itâs getting darned right chilly. |
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12/30/2007 06:45:22 AM · #323 |
| We're in the mid 30s at night and the upper 50s, low 60s during the day. Pretty standard "winter in the desert" kinda weather. Cloudy today, even! That's not common, but does occur more frequently than in the summer, when there are no clouds at all. |
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12/30/2007 07:52:23 AM · #324 |
Powerful article......
I cannot strongly enough put into words how much I despsie Paris Hilton.
This is real, though.....
"Hilton's pain was fodder for the national pastime of schadenfreude -- an ugly use for celebrity that often borders on sadism -- but at the same time, her pain could have disappeared in an instant, if she were capable of a single philosophical thought."
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12/30/2007 09:01:27 AM · #325 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I cannot strongly enough put into words how much I despise Paris Hilton.
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Jeb, hatred is a debilitating disease. Let it go and move on. Paris Hilton is not worth a drop of ants piss, and no one should endanger their health on her account. |
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