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I infer from their synchronised silence that the Judge and the Interthingy have eloped together.

May I, in their absence, humbly remind everyone to write a poem on this dreadful topic and do it in time and all that shit...


love and kisses

C2

Just about 24+ hrs to go, the way I read Joe's post. Serverdate 2005-01-19.

Does anyone have any idea how to write something about "WINTER"?????

Presently I'm playing with lines like

Johnny Winter had the blues
while brother louie had no use
for the blues.
but the blues had use for both of them.

Tom

Given the few or the many complainants, it would seem that "Seedy Hotel" just gets to looking better all the time .

lizzytysh wrote: Given the few or the many complainants, it would seem that "Seedy Hotel" just gets to looking better all the time .

Hi Elizabeth,

never believe too much from what lousy little poets say about topics. C2, for example, I'm sure, has already written at least one winter poem in the style of any master he's ever heard of.

Only poor ol' me doesn't get inspired by "Winter". How did Shakespeare write in his tragedy "King Lear"? "Poor Tom's a-cold!"

tom.d.stiller wrote:Just about 24+ hrs to go, the way I read Joe's post. Serverdate 2005-01-19.

Does anyone have any idea how to write something about "WINTER"?????

Presently I'm playing with lines like

Johnny Winter had the blues
while brother louie had no use
for the blues.
but the blues had use for both of them.

Tom

I have lots of good work excuses for not yet writing an entry for this esteemed comp. but I guess that if the topic had inspired me I would have found time. btw Johnny's brother was Edgar and one/both are albinos so there's lots of precitable white stuff for you to write about.

I know Edgar,

but I was playing with this reference:

She was black as the night
Louie was whiter than white
Danger, danger when you taste brown sugar
Louie fell in love over night
Hey man, what's wrong with that?
Nothing bad, it was good
Louie had the best girl he could
When she took him home to meet her mama and papa
Louie knew just where he stood

btw I have more than enough work excuses myself...

Well, all I can say ~ Tom ~ is that no complaints about "Seedy Hotel" surfaced until we were ready for a second competition, a couple months later ~ and that, by this point in the game, many more entries had been received. I have an approximation on that because I clarified a few things with Ms. Interthingy regarding the process of being one.

Now, some may have already submitted poems ~ one, more, or whatever ~ but I had been pretty well-flooded by this point. This, of course, is not to side with anyone on "Winter" being a good topic. I think it's fine. Someone wanted a much broader topic than "Seedy Hotel" and, by golly, they got one .

I like this topic, Winter.

Yes, as I recall, you were the one who wanted something broader. We look forward to reading your poem, Achilles .

Winter

Winter is a season
When you get to sneeze and cough
And burn a lot of carbon
So ya don't freeze y'r arse off.

There you go Entirely predictable and lame as a donkey with pneumonia.

Cheers, Wittless.

Glad you find me amusing Lizzytysh.

I think members are being a little whiny about the topic. I wrote a poem. It's not at all good. But Joe chose the topic and I think we should appreciate what he chose. I warrent that he had already picked "Winter" before I said anything. So don't blame me please!


And really the poetry experts/Critics should have no problem writing on the topic of "Winter" then they did "Seedy Hotel".

And on the subject of fewer poems this time around. Didn't one member admit to writing 9 poems last go-round? 9 Of the 22 submitted? If he had only written one the total for the last contest would have been what? 13 Entries! THis time we were restricted to 3 poems per member. So, of course Linda will not be "flooded with entries" this time.

Good luck to everyone who enters -- no matter how many or how few!

Ahem. Cough-cough. Choke. Cough.

I think members are being a little whiny about the topic. I wrote a poem. It's not at all good. But Joe chose the topic and I think we should appreciate what he chose.

Where was this attitude when "Seedy Hotel" was the topic? First, to thine own self be true/thful.

When Seedy Hotel was a topic I did not complain about it Lizzytysh.

All I did was ask Joe to broaden the topic for this contest in the interests of the fledging poets. I haven't been untrue/thful to myself or anyone else. I still don't think my post influenced Joe in his particular choice of topic, Winter.

I'm sorry the issue of topic has ruffled your feathers. It was not a personal attack.

Dear Achilles,

my point was, and still is, that a broader topic doesn't make it easier to compose a poem.

The usual way to write a poem, seemingly, starts without having a topic at all. And which topic can be broader than none at all? But this is a delusion.

You see something very specific, inspiration grabs you, a line or a verbal image comes to your mind - and there's your topic. A very very narrow one.

If you're lucky, it's narrow enough, and after a lot of work you arrive at an acceptable poem. But most of the time you're not born at the rainbow's foot with only some digging left to get hold of the pot of gold.

Then you play around with your narrow topic which still is much too broad to breed a poem. After a while you decide on a couple of additional restrictions. You narrow your topic down until finally it has lost all "broadness". Then the only work left to do is to find the right words in the right order - you can start writing your poem.

Nine out of ten times what you end up with isn't really a poem, but a more precise description of a few topics that might lead you to one.

Lesser poets, like the writer of these lines, tend to go public with the intermediate results of the quest, though.

Cheers
Tom