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Visited on Sep 25 2008 08:20 PM
I am not a conventional Poet. I mostly write in free Verse. I like a poem to 'make sense', to scan, and not to be 'awkward' in presentation. I sometimes rhyme, but when I do I insist that the rhymes must fit nicely and not be at all 'strained'
My Poetry is published on three sites including this one, and I have had a few poems published in Anthologies.
I am an Old Man, and I know it all too well. Inside I am still 10 years old, and will probably remain so because I managed to miss out on my childhood somewhat.
When I reveiew other peoples work, I try to be diplomatic, but I will not lie and say something is good if it is absolutely dire. I do not believe that I am doing the poet any favours in doing that. On one of the other sites that holds my poetry, there are a large number of people who write absolute drivel and then reveiew each others work and enthuse about it and award each othe top marks so that they all are top ranked poets who write illiterate mis-spelled empty meaningless tripe. Thats why I have come here in hopes of finding something different.
