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Near and Far




Unspoken, no token,
invisible bond, like magic wand.
Generous smile, sharing all the while,
eyes correspond, thoughts so fond.







The joy of touch to touch communication,
proximate reality, no exaggeration.
Distance intervenes,  how then the conversation,
letter, telephone, internet imagination?







Words in type, no spoken  hype,
lines run the screen, writer unseen.
Souls lie bare by reader dare,
read in between, thoughts convene.







No need to see or touch, words tell all,
reveal the personality, thoughts intellectual,
conjure scenarios, conversation unconventional,
create friendship bonds truly magical.







TO FRIENDS, NEAR AND FAR...








Aesthete2000
8/11/2008

In a list

A contest entry

Words come alive when answered in kind.

    : , Your review:

    Comment Suggestion: What is your your first impression?
    • Line numbers  • Invite them to read
    : no Cost: 0 free left 0 points, You have (?)

Comments

1 - 83 of 83

  • Yemassee gold member
    September 10
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    AP insists that I might enjoy this poem and that it has more shared readers than any other author (whatever that means) and so I always do what Kevin wants, lol so I just came and commented. I wonder if I can applaud?


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 10
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      hah!!! I know you did--comment---far down the page.
      The system must add up all the shared commenters
      to come up with that conclusion!!!

      Near and far---Yes, you may be far,
      but your humor and wisdom
      bring you near with
      your words!!!!

      This was our first shared grapnic---
      loper wanted to call us the four
      horsemen---each of us had one,
      loper, mari, Yem and M-C!


      • Yemassee gold member
        September 10

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        Yep, I remember I still have the colored one on my hard drive. Ah, you'd have to add Pix now.


        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 10
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          Check her front page---I made it quite a while ago
          after she set up shop here!!!
          A quintette!


  • waydownuponjoy
    September 6, 2008

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    And there you are!

    No need to see or touch, words tell all,
    reveal the personality, thoughts intellectual,
    conjure scenarios, conversation unconventional,
    create friendship bonds truly magical.

    © Aesthete2000 All rights reserved

    No need to flee or clutch, words enthrall
    Appeal to functionality, thoughts intellectual,
    Assure scenarios, admirations three dimensional,
    Update friendship wands truly magical …

    © 2008 Joy


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 6, 2008
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      Love your come-backs,
      your contrasts,
      the comparisons!

      Great!


  • bozoloper
    September 3, 2008

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    well a trophy was most deserved. as always you manage to pull things together in the last stanza (especially the "unconvential" part. well done!


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 3, 2008
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      Our changing world
      brought close
      by a finger tap!

      Thank you, loper.

      M-C


  • maa gold member
    August 25, 2008

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    congratulations on your first gold-trophy !
    I do agree with you that participating in or hosting contests have a sort of "burden" attached that, for me now, is becoming more and more heavy ... I love hosting contests, but I dislike "judging" ... how can you judge beauty ? love ? grace ?
    so this sort of all-are-voting-contests seems much more relaxed and relaxing ...

    much love,
    marion

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 25, 2008
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      Yes, that was always my reaoning---not liking being
      judgemental, so I NEVER entered a contest. But I joined
      this nice group of people and discovered the "all voting"
      system, so I threw my concerns out the window, and entered
      my first contest!!!!

      I read some of entries in your just finished contests---
      truly from the heart and soul!

      M-C

  • Yemassee gold member
    August 24, 2008
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    Now for my traditional contest comment:

    I got ripped off! It was no fair. It was all those graphics that won it! Oh sure, I could have put some of my doodles and easily won but I didn't think it was fair...my stick figure people are the finest art in town!

    I had a long spiel but I'm done, but it was fun.

    Did anyone break the bad news to you yet?...now you have to host the next Huguenauties contest.

    Congrats on the gold...see, entering contests is relatively painless...except for the hosting part.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 24, 2008

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      Yeah, It's all because you deleted the first ones!
      I'd love to see your stick art.

      Did you see the GAME----it was stressful!!!!!! It wasn't
      the usual romp. And I didn't know anyone else who was
      up watching to call!!!Everyone snoozing! Go USA.

      But I did stay up in the morning until Joe came out of
      his house!

      • Yemassee gold member
        August 24, 2008
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        Like an absolute madman I woke up at 2:00 and stayed awake to watched the game, lol. Stressful indeed! I turned on the VCR to tape it just in case I fell asleep. So lets do the math...2 hours of sleep yesterday...maybe three and a half today...lol.

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          August 24, 2008
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          So when do you catch up? On sleep that is.

          Glad you saw it! I had to keep busy, chopping salad greens, seasoning chicken, making a huge kettle of mashed potatoes---all ready for dinner tonight.
          The last two minutes, that's when I mashed the potatoes (with an eye over my shoulder on the screen)
          to relieve the stress!!!

          I think they are replaying now on USA network....


  • huguenauties silver member
    August 23, 2008

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    Dear M-C,

    CONGRATULATIONS on winning GOLD in your very first contest! Beginner's luck? Definitely NOT!



    <3 Maureen

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 24, 2008
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      Thank you, Maureen.

      I have held my ground since I have been here,
      not being a judgemental type of person! But
      the group is made up with so many nice people,
      I finally plunged in.

      M-C


  • angelica silver member
    August 23, 2008

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    Congratulations on winning GOLD M-C

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 24, 2008
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      Angelica, as you can tell tell by Moony's surprise
      I had been adamant about not entering contests,
      not wanting to "judge" words but rather discuss and converse.
      But with everyone in the group voting,
      that seemed more preferable!

      Thank you so much.
      And returning the congratulations on your very moving, silver sentimental piece. So glad you added it

      M-C


  • moon2u
    August 22, 2008
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    CONTEST????

    WHAT IS THIS ABOUT A CONTEST?
    NOT AESTHETE!!!
    NEVER SAY NEVER MY DEAR
    GIGGLES MOONY


    • Yemassee gold member
      August 24, 2008
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      And she won!

      And I didn't!

      c'est la vie

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 22, 2008
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      Ah, you caught me.
      Just trying to adapt to AP land!

      Never? Did I say that?
      Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...perhaps.

      So good to see you here again,
      just like home!

      M-C


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 21, 2008
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    Thankful for friends, both near and far.


  • Hinemoa silver member
    August 21, 2008

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    Dear M-C
    Very beautiful is your poem and the graphics to go with it. On Allpoetry we can form friendships from near and far. Sometimes they grow into strong friendships, sometimes others seem to drift away or whatever reason. But I love this site and the friends I've made on here.
    Good luck M-C
    Hine

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 21, 2008
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      Yes, Hine, so many doors to open here,
      and not time enough for all. Lucky we are
      when we find a treasure trove inside,
      words to challenge, a friend to keep!

      Thank you,

      M-C


  • jenelda silver member
    August 19, 2008

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    Dear M-C A very lovely poem and it's wonderful how you've laid it out with the poem in between the graphics.
    Good luck in the voting.
    Jen

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 19, 2008
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      Thank you, Jen.

      The words speak out
      and want the colorful interplay
      to make thir point,
      to punctuate the verses!

      M-C


  • hugh wyles silver member
    August 14, 2008

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    Dear M-C,

    there is no way
    on any day
    you ever may
    snub what I say.

    What happens by the way
    upon that dreadful day
    when, struggle as you may,
    you can't think what to say?

    Conversation is two-way
    sometimes continuing all day
    unless a PC failure may
    cut off the gist of what you say.

    I'm trying out a new form by the way
    that someone introduced the other day
    whereby extending metered lines you may
    use the same rhymes but different meanings say.


    Sorry, darling! I know this has little to do with your fine poem but I just HAD to try out this infuriatingly silly new form where you use 2,3,4 and 5 beats per line
    in four stanzas, using the same monorhyming end-words.
    This space seemed to be empty so thought I'd use it.

    I men what the hell is poetry coming to?
    Thank goodness for sane people like you and Yem who write sensible stuff! Good luck in the voting.

    Applause, love and hugs, XXX Hugh (R.)

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 15, 2008
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      What better place
      than the artist's studio
      to experiment with rhyme and form?
      You may count and repeat anytime it suits you!

      Sir Ima's graphic form came to life one night,
      with nowhere to go, so he made his debut
      on my tribute piece to Yem's Moxie!
      So, play away here on cue!

      The door is always open to art,
      Hugh, too!

      And the piece above IS about
      connecting and sharing!

      M-C


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 14, 2008
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    REMINISCENT OF MILES OUR WORDS CROSS,
    VARYING TIME ZONES AND CONTINENTS...


  • Peteskid gold member
    August 13, 2008

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    the colors blend so well here and the words are wonderful and very true, people can come together in many ways, the important thing is the sense of sharing...i really like this...PK

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 14, 2008
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      Thanks, PK.
      It IS the sharing that completes the scene.
      Alone on an island, not a good picture!
      So many advantages we have now, so best
      to use them, happily!


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 13, 2008
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    Bozoloper, the fourth horseman.


  • Summer52
    August 13, 2008
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    Words will keep us near.

    Excellent!

    Summer


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 13, 2008
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      Summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Thank you.

      Did I miss you again???????????????????????

      Mumsy

  • waydownuponjoy
    August 13, 2008
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    Internet Imagination ...

    I was immediately attracted to that thought in your poem and was pleased to see how you shared the rest of some most interesting lines and phrases ... Nicely done! jy

    my answer in kind ...

    There’s a crazy sort of cognizance
    that precipitates parole
    from the lazy sort of ignorance
    that’s sure to take its’ toll.
    As you troll those muddy waters
    let your conscience take the lead
    making note how arcane interests
    with a mystery intercede ...

    When you seek asylum’s presence,
    don’t expect too many signs ...
    for the magic is what happens
    as you loll between the lines!


    © 2007 Joy A. Burki-Watson

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 13, 2008
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      Aha! A mystery...the best of circumstance!

      Expecting to find an assortment of them
      when I return to troll your pages!!!

      Yes, your mind does work
      in a most interesting manner!

      Aesthete2000


  • Mari Goes gold member
    August 13, 2008

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    No need to see or touch, that is so right! We do touch though, in a certain way, when we read and comprehend the thoughts of our across the oceans friends.
    Lovely and true thoughts, and wonderful graphics!!!
    Thanks for being a friend


  • MargaretG
    August 13, 2008

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    great wordplay

    I like the subject of course, and the way you have expressed it with rhyme. The icing for the cake is your graphic art. I'm happy you joined the group so that more people can see your talents.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 13, 2008
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      Margaret, by coincidence I had just clicked on your
      name to bring up your page, wanting to check out
      where your thoughts had taken your poetry...and
      your commentary popped up!

      Thank you for the kind words---and glad
      you like the icing!

      M-C


  • Blushfulmoon silver member
    August 12, 2008

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    excellent~

    I loved this...
    The words and the pic as well
    Best of luck in the contest & welcome to our group
    Hugs
    Susan~~~

  • angelica silver member
    August 12, 2008
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    Dear M-C.
    Amazing graphics you have created and your words are wonderful. I'm so happy to have welcomed you into Hugh's group and that you've entered our contest. Reading Yem and Ima's comments it sounds like you don't go into them very much. Me too, I gave up long ago, I only go in huguenauties or if a special friend invites me.
    Welcome once again M-C and good luck in the voting.
    Love Joan

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      Angelica, you are so gracious!

      Yes, I had not ventured into contest land,
      but this seemed like such a warm and friendly
      group, so I took the first step.

      Thank you, so much.

      M-C


  • Sir Ima Cucumber
    August 12, 2008

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    Yem sent me.

    Hey, you can turn these four horsemen ones on their side and it still looks correct. Very creative!

    Wow! You entered a contest! Sorry, ever think of think of the right thing to say, only to see that the moment to say it has passed? That is poor me trying to comment on your entering...that funny moment has passed. Actually I wrote a silly story about that ages ago, "Bonko's Esprit de l'escalier"...or some such nonsense.

    Where was I? Oh yes, I hadn't started yet.

    "No need to see or touch, words tell all,"

    Sadly it doesn't tell quite all for me. Some things I really can't know about someone until I actually have physical contact (I think.) Some things are too subtle to be understood without seeing that quick glance when something is mentioned, or done. I learned that the hard way...but even then you can't know everything about the inner workings of someone's mind...and that can have disastrous effects...I'm just bubbin' here.


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      Bread crumbs to the Bonko tale? In nom?

      Ima, ask Yem if he notices the new "Yems"
      are a bit bigger.

      • Yemassee gold member
        August 12, 2008
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        A bit bigger? I'll go see.

        We put the name at the bottom because only gold members can see the names of those who enter contests. The silver and bronze contest holders only see an "anonymized." Of course there are ways to defeat that, like logging out or opening up another browser and logging into another account, but that's a bit of work.

        I could question why gold members are considered fair hosts while the others aren't but that would get me sliding down a slippery slope and I've managed to avoid that for the most part here on AP.


        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          August 12, 2008
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          For heaven's sake!

          I had no idea everyone did not see the same thing.

          Yem, thank you for the tutorial!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      It seems, either way, in person,
      or reading words, things can still
      be hidden. Perhaps, in person, we
      think we see and know all, are less
      perceptive, confident that we know
      what we see.

      One could consider that reading
      just the words could eliminate
      extraneous actions, movements
      that might distract our attention.

      Still, either way, trusting instincts,
      a clear direction or a gamble?



  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    August 12, 2008
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    Inter-continental,
    from the North
    to the Down Under...


  • catz Moderators member
    August 11, 2008

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    Your poem is beautifully presented and very meaningful The graphics you add to your work are unique and the poem is especially enhanced by the art.

    I wish you best of luck in the contest

    Dee

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 13, 2008
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      Dee,

      The internet ghost
      keeps absconding with this post,
      for I know I thanked you for your kind words.

      But, once more, thank you.

      M-C


  • J aime Coudre silver member
    August 11, 2008

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    Dear A2000,

    Your words are outstanding and the graphics are spectacular. I know nothing about computer designs so when I see how lovely these are I am oh so impressed...then I read the words written between and I am even more impressed.

    I also enjoy email and other forms of electronic play things that we now have in our society but I think it is a great loss that we will not have the hand written journals to pass along to future generations...but life will go on as it always has...

    Thank you for the wonderful entry in this contest...and good luck on the voting. Darlene

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      Darlene, thank you so much for the kind words.

      Regarding the handwritten journals---but the keyboard
      and its instant corrections makes for easier reading
      and writing! While a calligraphy pen is my friend,
      a pencil or pen to hand to scribble a note, results in
      "whaaaaat" from someone trying to decipher. My daughter
      shared her method, explaining to the girls at the studio trying
      to read my directions regarding the work I was
      sending, "Just squint your eyes and lean your head back,
      and then you can "see" it."

      A loss, the handwritten journals,
      but a big gain in communication!

      M-C

  • hugh wyles silver member
    August 11, 2008
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    Dear M-C

    As I commented to Hinemoa in her poem about Betty,
    "What would we do without the intervention of Paul Getty?"
    Though Microsoft has made him one of the wealthiest of men
    just think how he enriches all our lives and think again.

    If not for him and "Windows" reaching to the farthest ends
    so many of us never would have 'met' and become friends.
    Without our conversations on the Internet Explorer,
    I venture to conjecture that our lives would be the poorer.

    Thankyou for your artistic and thoughtfully expressed entry and best of luck in the voting.

    Applause, love and hugs, XOXOXO Hugh (R.)

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      Hi, Hugh!

      As you know, I am also a Betty of sorts,
      rather strange sorts!!!

      "... venture to conjecture that our lives would be the poorer." A perfect expression of the situation---
      for it is the enrichment brought to us from
      so many parts of the world, all united
      to form a communal bond, that makes
      life considerably more exciting.

      Taking a "class" in programming in the early 80s
      I prayed for someone to be more inventive soon,
      for I hated (said most vehemently) the procedure!
      At art convenitions I met other teachers of art
      who had fallen in love with the Mac. But that was
      no way for me to create art---all that code! So
      I watched for news, first the Palo Alto Xerox team
      then Steve Jobs adapting it for Apple, but Bill Gates
      appropriating it, and marketing better for Microsoft.
      Getty, you mention, because of the vocabularies,
      the museum research?

      Thank you so much for your poetic commentary.

      M-C


  • fathom me
    August 11, 2008

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    this is my favourite topic!!! Loved your poem dear friend, thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it! And the graphics as usual are supercool! *applaud*

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      Fathom! Nice to see you again!

      We could go on and on again
      about that topic, couldn't we?

      Love that "supercool!"

      M-C


  • Maureen silver member
    August 11, 2008
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    Very nice!

    I enjoyed your unique and interesting poem! Our friends are as close as the phone or internet. (Snail mail takes so long..I've gotten used to "instant" messages.) I'm thankful for AP (and other places on the internet) because I can meet new people every day, make friends and communicate with them, whether near or far (without needing to know phone numbers or email addresses).

    I was pretty sure you wrote this, M-C., but wasn't positive until I read the comments. Please add your name to your poem so that everyone will know you wrote it (and can then VOTE for you in this contest).

    Best of Luck!

    <3 Maureen

    P.S.: Enjoyed your colorful, unique graphics, too!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      Hello, Maureen!

      It is nice of you to share your thoughts.
      Right, such easy access, no numbers to record
      or remember!

      Regarding adding the name--- time for Yem to come in
      and laugh a hearty laugh, for he knows I have been
      a stalwart supporter of commentary interchange rather
      than judgemental decisions, for he and Mari had to drag me
      along to be a co-judge in one of their contests. In
      other words, I have never entered a contest before,
      but chose to here because of the happy environment
      I have found in Hugh's Kingdom.

      So--------is the name not at the top of the page?
      Do I need to insert it after the body of the work?

      OK, everyone, especially Yem, laugh hearty!

      M-C

      • Maureen silver member
        August 16, 2008

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        Hello, M-C!

        Sorry I did not reply before today. For some reason, your reply did not show up when it was written. I just discovered it tonight and I see Yem has already explained that silver and bronze subscribers can't see a name at the upper right corner of the poem (strange as that may seem). I see you have added your name after your poem so all is well.

        <3 Maureen

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          August 17, 2008
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          Thank you, Maureen.

          Yem is a good "'splainer!"

          I hadn't a clue before this that everyone
          did not see the pages in the same way.
          Strange!

          So is that a clue to the "<" symbols
          that srarted showing up here?"

          M-C

      • Yemassee gold member
        August 12, 2008
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        HA HA HA HA cough HA HA HA HA

        Yeah just stick your name at the bottom of the poem. They used to get irritated with me because I kept forgetting. But in my defense, mine are pretty easy to recognize...mine are the ones that have cows and flying cats and such in them.

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          August 12, 2008
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          But isn't that redundant---
          the name is right next
          to the title at the top
          of the page?

          What am I not seeing?
          Is the name cut off
          somewhere when it's
          entered?????????????


  • Pisces rainbow gold member
    August 11, 2008

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    this is very rich,
    imagine what we have,
    connections to the world we go places and meet people,
    it is not superficial it has no skin color,no income level, no vanity.
    it is a true connection beneath the superficial
    it is a step of growth.
    wonderfully done my friend.
    you have captured a bit of evolution in yet another beautiful masterpiece.
    and it indeed my pleasure to stop by
    God bless you always my friend...

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 11, 2008
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      "...a bit of evolution..."

      What an interesting concept,
      for that is what is taking place.

      Hopefully we shall evolve for the better.

      "..it is a true connection beneath the superficial..."

      You are full of wise observations today---the levelling
      nature of intrnet communication.

      Thank you so much, Kathy.

      M-C

  • Hinemoa silver member
    August 11, 2008
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    Dear M-C Your poem and your graphics are fantastic.
    Communication is a lot different than before computers were invented, sometimes I miss receiving a letter from a friend written by hand.
    Poetry certainly is a form of communication, I have met so many wonderful people on AP especially in Hugh's group, they are all a wonderful bunch.
    Welcome to Huguenauties.
    Hine

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 11, 2008
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      Thank you, Hine.

      Yes, the comparison of the handwritten
      with email---thinking the convenience
      and the speed and the easy-to-read
      format is far surpassing that
      comfortable, personal note.
      But still a joy to send or receive one!!

      I will be back to read more of your
      pieces, really liked the Betty tale!

      M-C


  • Yemassee gold member
    August 11, 2008
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    Oh, and Sir Ima shall drop by later to discuss the fact that you have entered a contest.


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      A bigger "Yem" and a frame around
      in case you go back to mysterious black!!!


      • Yemassee gold member
        September 10
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        Found it. Will add it to Yem tonight. He'll be bronze for a day or teo starting tomorrow.

      • Yemassee gold member
        August 12, 2008
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        Ah yes. I may take this one with the purple border and replace it with the one I now have. The purple looks snazzy. Got to get back to my Moxie background soon, it's Yemish law.

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          August 12, 2008
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          Love the black background
          with the orange Moxie logos
          runing down the side.
          That's Yemish Law, right?

          I thought that edge color
          set it off nicely, the one above.
          Glad you like it.


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 12, 2008
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      And here is one with a bigger "Yem."


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 11, 2008
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      Sir Ima will say, "I do believe she caved!"

  • Yemassee gold member
    August 11, 2008
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    You ended on that bluish one, not the green. I had predicted you'd end on the green...so much for thinking you know someone.

    The yellowish one is my favorite...it just jumps off the page. The purplish one is a close second.

    You address an important issue on this website...friendship and it's nature...face-to-face and this odd form we use on AP...as well as other forms...then there is that odd hybrid...those we know physically but are far away from...and how do we keep in touch with them...remember the days when we wrote letters. I haven't written a letter in years...phone, email, IM, etc has replaced them for the most part.

    And of course you bring in this form of communication...poetry...interesting isn't it...we (many of us) communicate through poetry...that is what folk don't understand...these poems, it's only one part that we want them read because it's art that we want understood...there is a large other part that of the writing process is about US being understood. And because it's hard or not appropriate to scream, "Come here and see me, talk to me, see who I am" we write poems...I think.

    I have more to say but I have to run.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 11, 2008
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      Yes, yes, wise one, it's the communication.`
      Poetry, being more succinct, conveys the essence,
      without all the extraneous hemming and hawing.
      Note: trite epression used to illustrate point!

      And it causes THINKING on both parts.

      A premise creeps into my pieces,repeatedly:
      Words on the page do not come alive
      until they are read and given a response.
      And who wants to leave dead words lying around?
      __________________________________________________

      And does this one speak to you?





    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 11, 2008
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      First thought:
      I did end on the green, added the other one later,
      so, actually you predicted correctly!!

      Added it for a loper color.


  • arafura gold member
    August 11, 2008

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    Lovely!

    "No need to see or touch, words tell all,
    reveal the personality, thoughts intellectual,
    conjure scenarios, conversation unconventional,
    create friendship bonds truly magical."

    Beautifully expressed!


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      August 11, 2008
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      Thank you, arafura.

      It is indeed, a strong connection.

      Aesthete

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