Guestbook entries for Balladeer

• Balladeer on January 3, 2005

  Hi, Maureen!!! Haven't been getting around much lately but it's nice to hear from you! I hope your holidays were wonderful and 2005 treats you well
• Maureen on December 31, 2004

  Hi Mike! Saw you here..Happy New Year!
  
  <3 Maureen
• poetryality on December 24, 2004

  MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND THE WIFE MY FRIEND MAY IT BE A BLESSED EVENT THAT SPILLS INTO THE NEW YEAR!
  
  Much Love,
  Renee
  
  
  
  
• Balladeer on December 20, 2004

  Hey, Bonnie!! I don't know if my muse is out to sea or not but it's somewhere I can't find!! Have a wonderful holiday season, sweet lady
• BonBon on December 20, 2004

  Hi there Deer. Just stopped in to see what you have been up to.
  Maybe with all that wind your muse got trapped and is a swimin' out in that churin' blue sea. But if we all call to your muse it will find its way back into your flowing pen of mischief.
  Will be back.
  See Ya
  Hugs BonBon
• mystyx on December 7, 2004

  Thats good to hear Mike. Hope the Xmas season finds you well and a happy new year to you as well.
  
  Bill
• Balladeer on December 7, 2004

  Hey, Billy! All is well here..just end of the year stuff going on and a muse that seems to have lost her way....best wishes for the holiday season to you and thanks for checkin' in on me....I appreciate it.
• mystyx on November 30, 2004

  Hi Mike
  
  Havent seen anything from you in a long time. I'm hoping everything is alright and finds you well.
  
  dont want to seem to rush you ....but hury uop and write something LOL.
  
  Billy
• Balladeer on November 26, 2004

  Hi, dear lady!! Thank you for thinking of me and, yes, I did indeed have a good Thanksgiving and I hope you did also....nothing like pumpkin pie to cure what ails ya! You are such a good friend...thank you!
• poetryality on November 26, 2004

  Hello my friend! I hope that you are fit and fine! I also hope you had a lovely Turkey Day and that you got filled to the brim with scrumptous foods! Do take good care!
• Balladeer on November 4, 2004

  Hi, Ann! Always nice to hear from you. No, the muse hasn't been around for a while. If you happen to see it, tell it to come HOME!!!
• AnnD on November 2, 2004

  Hi there, just thought i would pop in for a cuppa and see how you are.
  Hm.. no new ones since the little windy weather you had.
  I'll be looking for some new ones posted soon I hope.
  Good to see you back safe and sound.
  
  Ann
• Balladeer on August 3, 2004

  I'm not sure, seeker of peas. I'll check...glad you liked it!
• MargaretG on August 3, 2004

  I love the meta-villanelle that you wrote to audition for A Traditionalist Society, it is charmingly clever. Have you ever posted it here? It would be a wonderful teaching tool.
• angel of your love on July 24, 2004

  hello there my long lost friend. Long time to talk...lol
  Hope all is well with you. Take care of yourself and always keep in touch.
  
  tammy aka heavenly poet
• Balladeer on June 20, 2004

  Thank you, Tamara. You are very sweet to say such nice things. I doubt that I'll ever be known like that but, just by having been able to reach people like you makes the effort very worthwhile. Big hugs your way
• Ladybug on June 20, 2004

  I jumped over the website of ballads and read a few there.
  you are an awesome poet and one day I bet your name will be seen and known worldwide.
  peace and goodwill in all you do!
  Tamara Ladybug
• Balladeer on June 12, 2004

  freda, you won't lose me...I promise!!! Thank you for adding me
• shastadaisey123 on June 10, 2004

  hello ,my friend..just found your work..I am amzed and thrilled by what I have read thus far...I shall add you to my favorites...do not want to "lose you"...freda
• BonBon on May 24, 2004

  Morning Deer
  I see you are still being bad. I'm going to tell on you.
  TOE.............! LOL
  See Ya
  BonBOn
• Balladeer on May 23, 2004

  HI, Bonnie!. No, no Toerag or LongJohn. There are certain requirements here - like being literate!
  
  Good to see you here!
• BonBon on May 23, 2004

  Well looky here. Who do I spy in these pages of poetry. That good ole boy by the name of Balladeer.Are the other two musketeers with you Deer, ole Toe and LongJohn?
  Well I'm on my way to read, read, read.
  See Ya
  BonBon aka Bonnie J.
• Balladeer on May 21, 2004

  Thank you, peaseeker. Very nice to meet you, too, and glad I could help! DOn't misunderstand me! I'm a strong believer in rules. Bending them is allowable but don't break them! The beauty (and the challenge) of writing structured poetry is to maintain the integrity of the structure. To be able to stay within the guidelines and still be able to say what you want to say is extremely rewarding. There is a lot of elastic, though, in some of those rules that will stretch a ways before breaking
• MargaretG on May 21, 2004

  Thanks so much for your comments on my sonnet and villanelle in the Traditionalists. I feel far more free to bend the rules! As one of my poetic friends said, forms can become a corset to squeeze the life out of poetry; what a shame if we don't have the freedom to say what we want to in the way we need to say it. Forms are an interesting puzzle, but we must choose the correct form for the idea, and not follow the rules slavishly.
  I look forward to getting to know you through your poems!
• Balladeer on May 13, 2004

  Thank you, Molly! I'm really happy to see you enjoy poetry at such a young age. That's great! Keep writing!
• DepressingGirl on May 13, 2004

  that is an amazing poem i like the way you kept a patern of alternating the lines "i am just a baladeer and i'm in love with you" i like your poem it's really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  from depressingGirl
• angel of your love on May 6, 2004

  ??????????
  waiting for something new...
  hope you are havong a wonderful night
• angel of your love on May 6, 2004

  
  
  Tammy
• Balladeer on May 3, 2004

  Hello, Dee! Yes, I remember it well. Repo and I had a good times throwing good-natured thymes at each other. He was a gifted writer with a great sense of humor and I'm very glad that I was able to put a few smiles on his face as he did on mine. My sympathy goes out to his family and friends...
• catz on May 2, 2004

  Hi Michael, I was sitting here thinking about you and repomen79 and the crazy poems you used to write back and fort in response to each other.....always funny and wonderful. I'm going to miss those. It hardly seems possible that Patric is no longer with us and I know we'll all miss him. I'll go read his poetry still, and there's many that I haven't read yet anyway... he has LOTS of them on here....and I'll look up those between the two of you whenever I need a good laugh. Did you know that mystysaint posted a contest for poems in memory of him. There's some really nice tributes to him. I entered one but not as a contestant, I just wanted mine to be among them. I believe she's going to compile all of them and send them to his family.
  
  Anyway, just thinking of you and wanted to say hi. so ....'HI' Now I think I'll check out some of your poems that I haven't yet read.
  
  Dee
• Balladeer on April 20, 2004

  I thank you, sir. Sorry it has taken me so long to check my home page!
• Balladeer on April 20, 2004

  Thank you, Tammy! I wish you the same..
• angel of your love on April 20, 2004

  
  Just wanted to pass this hug on to you and let you know that i was thinking of you...
  
  Take care and have a wonderful night.
  Tammy
• Itgottaway on April 1, 2004

  Very nice. It definitely touches a person.
• Balladeer on March 21, 2004

  A very interesting synopsis and I thank you for taking the time to go into such depth. Thus piece was written, however, as a thumbnail sketch of a character of the time, nothing more. You are certainly correct that, if I had chosen to go into detail, the poem could have gone on for hours! That was not my plan. I felt no need to go into detail of supportive deeds of the mentioned kings, knights, etc because they are acknowledged by anyone who has studied or believes in the fables of that time frame. Nor was it meant to be a song because, as you state, it would have required a recurring refrain, or hook. Balladeers and minstrels were also storytellers. Who was the woman, the object of the devotion? Who knows? Who cares? It was a tale told to listeners who could apply it to their own lives - place themselves in the position of the balladeer - and choose their own object of affection to be the receipient of the thoughts. We do the same things upon hearing songs that we take as our own thoughts. I could care less whose hand Paul, John, George and Ringo wanted to hold - but I remember Jane Brockmiller in my math class I applied it to!
  
  Again, I appreciate your thoughts and the time you took to come up with such an in-depth analysis...
• -o- AyeWright on March 21, 2004

  I think this would be better with some stronger, more vivid/specific imagery - and, being the work of some putative balladeer, it would definitely benefit from a clearer narrative. Of course, such changes could well result in a much longer piece - more like a ballad of yore, I suppose! Those things went on for days. If not a continued single narrative, then perhaps some narrative bites - some detail of the knights' or sailors' deeds, some specifics of the inspiration from the Muse of Mother Nature. For me, this would be a better lyric (if such was intended - and I could well imagine some piebald minstrel warbling this with a lute) if there was a constant refrain to end each stanza, such as you've almost achieved in the last two lines. Either that, or a repeated structure in each stanza like you've done in the fifth stanza, where the second line is echoed in the last. But the main disappointment to me in reading this, or imagining it sung, is in the lack of narrative, and most importantly in that there is no identity of the 'you' who this is written for/sung to. There's an ambiguous suggestion in the last stanza, but even the balladeer does not seem to know who it is - the lady of a knight? a queen? It's not clear. Making that love - the identity, the secrecy, the danger, the purity of medieval courtly love, the unrequited love... - working with that as the narrative drive of this work would really have made it work for me.
• Pari Ali on March 18, 2004

  LOL fabulous!
• Balladeer on March 18, 2004

  If golf had been around back then
  In days of knights and kings
  One would have heard a different tune
  In songs the minstrel sings.
  
  There would have been no silly jousts
  To knock one from one's horse.
  All duels would be fought civilly
  At Camelot Golf Course.
  
  The beverage cart would have been driven
  By sweet Gueneviere
  While using all her queenly charms
  To peddle Arthur Beer.
  
  The leader would be Putt-A-Lot
  Who hit balls with his lance
  And wore, instead of armor,
  Pink and green and chartreuse pants.
  
  Crusades would not have happened..
  There would be no need for war.
  The only battle would have been
  Defeating evil par!
  
  The Holy Grail would have been
  The prize all tried to win
  And any three-putts from ten feet
  Would be a mortal sin.
  
  There would have been no ravaging
  Of virgin maidens then.
  All ladies-in-waiting would be waiting
  For their golfing men.
  
  Ah, yes, golf could have saved the world
  Of so much pain and strife
  If it had been around back then
  To change medieval life!!!
  
  
  
  
  
• Pari Ali on March 15, 2004

  Hitting golf balls a long way?? and here I thought you travelled hill and countryside telling tales.how disappointing
  I loved that picture you painted, and the ballad too on this page. all sounds so spun of romance and then you say you spend your time hitting golf balls. I wonder if that is what a knight or balladeer or even resplendent king would do if they found themselves in this century.
• maryannde on March 3, 2004

  I see I have you to thank for removing the barf from my poem. Thanks sweetie... I'm glad I gave him a belly ache. I hope it stays with him a while. LOL
• JennyLee on February 4, 2004

  Your insurance poem was great. It caused me to add you to my favorites list.
• Balladeer on January 29, 2004

  paas...that certainly does give me an idea...stay away from computer women!!! Thank you for the smiles! My ex-wives were all dog women...I would sit up and beg and they would roll over and play dead!!
• Roseleaf on January 27, 2004

  I just recieved this from a friend and that it might give you some ideas if not just a giggle or too
  HARD-DISK Woman: She remembers everything, FOREVER.
  RAM Woman: She forgets about you, the moment you turn her off.
  WINDOWS Woman: Everyone knows that she can't do a thing right, but no one can live without her.
  EXCEL Woman: They say she can do a lot of things but you mostly use her for your four basic needs.
  SCREENSAVER Woman: She is good for nothing but at least she is fun!
  INTERNET Woman: Difficult to access. Need to keep trying.
  SERVER Woman: Always crashes when you need her.
  MULTIMEDIA Woman: She makes horrible things look beautiful.
  CD-ROM Woman: She is always faster and faster.
  E-MAIL Woman: Every ten things she says, eight are nonsense.
  VIRUS Woman: Also known as "WIFE"; when you are not expecting her, she comes, installs herself and uses all your resources. If you try to uninstall her you will lose something, if you don't try to uninstall her you will lose everything............
  thanks for your im and you're welecome
  Pauline
• Balladeer on January 26, 2004

  Pauline, thank you for being there to share it with. It is so rewarding to write for people like you and I appreciate your coments - and you - very much.
• Balladeer on January 26, 2004

  Thank you, cheerleada...hopefully this BOMB will never be a dud in your eyes
• Roseleaf on January 26, 2004

  just wish to say your poetry is exceptional and entertaining to a wide mass of people thanks for sharing your talent with us
  pauline
• Swingdancer01 on January 24, 2004

  You are the BOMB. You should really get this one published. I haven't read your other one's, But I plan to read them next. I'm sure they'll be as good as this one. Don't stop writing.
• Balladeer on January 23, 2004

  7 more?!?!? God, I hope not!
  
  Thank you, midgie....I appreciate your kind words and taking the time to drop by. Best wishes to you....
• fouru2nv76 on January 23, 2004

  You are such an exellent poet! That was great and three? ex wife number three? well u were just getting started im sure u got like 7 more in ya. right? well have a good life many wishes.
  
  
  ................midgie
• blkwidowsd on December 25, 2003

  My Dear Balladeer Mike,
  I hope u have a very Merry Christmas And all the BEST 4 THE NEW YEAR Thank you for all your kind words You are like a diamond special & rare
  Best Wishes
  ~Tracey~

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