Terttu
Dec 24, 2011
It has been a turbulent time! As DeeCrepit I tried to run the Winklers Poetry and Grammar Group, with some solid help (thanks Lita) and much frustration, to make it a special place really worth attending.
Then my time was fully needed when a major opportunity opened to serve as a proofreader, helping Jim, preparing what would become Anthology I, then II and perhaps III. Thanks Ron. We had started working toward Volume III when suddenly I was in hospital with the third stroke that I wasn't supposed to survive, and was left with aphasia.... Total loss of words.
Had NONE! Little strokes will continue, my doctor said, explaining why "the right word I had planned to write" disappears before it is used. Now language has nearly returned, and my Muse has made poems possible again.
Time gains in value relative to its brevity.
It takes a lifetime to know that.
Such a loss of identity is not experienced by many, and I reinstated first as Terry-too that a few may remember kindly. Circumstances since then have left me as Terttu, where I began more than eighty years ago. Full circle.
Eventually, you'll not find me: gone from AP, peacefully finishing my second novel somewhere else!
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Friday June 20, 2008. DeeCrepit = Terry-too
My recent surgeries were so wildly successful I threw away the need to be DeeCrepit.
Terry-too followed more quickly in those footsteps. Everything before this date, here in the archive was written while I still was on wheels, with canes. Meanwhile when I discovered my copyrighted name was "available" I took it back. NO WAY would I allow anyone else to mess up my reputation when I can do such a great job of that myself!
Storywrite, and the final edit of my
34-chapter children's novel, called "Tabby Disease" led to DeeCrepit's wry discovery:
Member since 2004
Updated October 29, 2008:
Without the grace of language,
without the metaphor,
without the verbal camouflage
of rhyme that some deplore,
a 'poem' dwindles like mirage
and sadly, little more.
My verse for the day.
Terry
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August 20 2005
I wrote this ending with greatest restraint.
Personal IM attacks on me led to my posting
HIS WORDS verbatim as "Vendetta,"
with no additions from me.
He claimed to be a PhD
and Admin deleted Vendetta from MY poem-page
and told me I had broken a rule, with possible
banning. It still hurts.
Do you see History here?
In AP, an intended victim was blamed!
Someday I hope I can delete it. Not yet.
Addendum June, 2005: Not ever.
I was the object of verbal attack, and I posted it.
For those who are personally attacked for their
disagreement, it documents a long fight and its
unhappy resolution. It can happen to anyone.
A VERY SPECIAL ACROSTIC by Hugh Wyles:
To Terry Gibson (DeeCrepit-->Terttu),
D iscerning as a critic, conscientious as a judge.
E ducated as a writer, (that's apparent in her verse.)
E nergetic in her utterance; her opinions seldom budge,
C onvincing in her arguments for better or for worse.
R arely found such talent, awe-inspiring skills combined,
E qualling the very best the AP site might find.
P erfected meter, rhyme and phrasing, yet her silken purse
I ntuitively teaches the uncultivated mind
T hat what we build in life, in death, is what we leave behind.
Hugh Wyles, July 4th.2005.
This is my 'official' welcome to Terry who has honoured me by joining my list of favourites and who has already provided sympathetic and insightful editing of several of my latest works.
Please read some of her writings and you will understand why I am so thrilled to have her on my 'team'. allpoetry.com/Poets/DeeCrepit
Silver Member angelica on Jul 06, 6:11 said:
Wonderful Hugh, I have given my official welcome as HOH, but will also extend another one here. A wonderful Acrostic you have written for Terry, I know she's going to be a great asset to our group.
Love and hugs
Bea xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Silver Member Mary6 on Jul 06, 8:02 said:
A warm welcome. I have had Terry on my fav list for some time now and think she is a skillful and insightful writer as well as a kind person.
Gold Member MargaretG on Jul 06, 9:32 said:
Terry was on my fave list even before I joined AP - I have had the pleasure of knowing her almost all of my life.
I love your acrostic Hugh, she is an erudite and talented writer, past the age of bowing to others' opinions. Your last two lines are thought provoking, and inspiring too - we younger people must think sometimes of our legacy.
Silver MemberGreeter catz on Jul 06, 2:02 p.m. said:
Terry is indeed a beautiful asset to allpoetry and probably to all the people in her life. He work is exemplary.
Your acrostic for her suits her to a T
Welcome, Terry, to our clan
Silver Member Maureen on Jul 07, 2:37 p.m. said:
Dear Hugh,
Enjoyed your tribute to a very gifted writer. I have had the pleasure of reading her poems and getting to know her in the group "Kindred Souls".
Dee, Welcome to Hugh's favorites. I'm sure you will be very happy here.
Maureen
Thank you all. Sometimes it takes an awful lot of years to find the folks we wish we had known all our lives, but here you are, and the sense of belonging together is an immense source of comfort and happiness. What a wonderful thing to share!
Terry
Post script 15 September 05 UPDATED FOR 2K6
I returned here with a sense of coming home. Truly strange. Suddenly, I just realized I have been spending altogether too much time in the alternate site here, SharePoetry. I am however, glad I wrote the big one, QUEBEC, MY MUSE AND ME. Huge, including French, a copy of it will be here, along with several others that were polished in SP. For those not ego-bound, it is a great place to improve what we do because empty flattery is discouraged.
Updating 20 April 2005
I am entering my third term of teaching the e-course in punctuation and grammar, Usage updated. PS, not much appreciated. Like who needs it? Hahahahahahaha!
I still tutor 2 hours in the mornings.
I was hired to be webmaster for a new website for local teachers' union. Up and running.
These two PAY.
Other webwork is recuperating too.
Updated May 12 06: Busy!!!!! Most of the teachers' webwork is done between midnight and 5 AM. It may be a long strike, certainly bitter, and urgent bulletins can come at noon too. I am looking for a two-ended candle I can safely burn!
Still active in Sharepoetry, new poems coming almost daily. How do I turn them off?
Meanwhile health aches, reminding me I am not seventy anymore, and in July, surgery looms.
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UPDATED March 9, 2008
Surgery, a research procedure, was successful past wildest dreams. Since 1984 when knee surgeries had not healed due to undiscovered diabetes, I had been on wheels. Now, since 2007, with diabetes diet-controlled for a dozen years, I not only do not need wheels, but I walk again like other people! Rejuvenating. Yippee!
It has been a very demanding time, but I thank you all for making it so special!
Terttu, Christmas Eve, 2011.
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