5 Responses to “aside: poem”  

1. 1 Keith Jun 16th, 2007 at 11:22 pm

   No link showing here…

2. 2 reverendmother Jun 17th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

   Yeah, I meant to do that.

   So OK, how irrational am I that I find it a smidge too transparent to link directly to a page with my full name on it, but I make the page in question really easy to google?

3. 3 Keith Jun 17th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

   I thought it was another of those Clever Allusions to Things Not Really Named. It never occurred to me to google it.

   I still don’t really understand free verse, but I liked it. Mine’s all iambic and rhyming, so I doubt there’s much point submitting it anywhere.

4. 4 Teri Jun 18th, 2007 at 7:57 am

   okay, I admit that I also did not think to google it, but once I did….excellent. Have you published that poem (or a version of it) here as well? I remember the last line, and I remember thinking “this is exactly how I feel about mother’s day and how much my friends seem to forget to send things or talk to their mothers or take their mothers for granted.”

   good work, friend…

5. 5 reverendmother Jun 18th, 2007 at 8:20 am

   I was an English major in college, and I honestly don’t know what there is to “understand” about free verse. You don’t understand what makes free verse free verse? You don’t understand what’s so great about it? etc. I’m curious.

   Teri, yes, I wrote it last year, which is another reason I didn’t link.

   I talked to R about the linking and apparently I’m not too paranoid. There is a way to see what pages link to other pages, but it’s not straightforward, so few people would probably do it. But better to be cautious, since as he put it, “You never know what Google will do *next* year.” So, there it is.

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