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  • Simply Bohemian : Thank you on March 3, 2007
    thank you for reading my Not a poem
    I would give you stars if I knew how to or where even to find them...(twenty years of schooling and I am at a lost here to even add on stars!)
    Once again thank you for even looking at my No poem stuff.
  • mtpoet on November 15, 2006
    Your words kept me reading...
  • zara on November 15, 2006
    Thank you for your recent visits to my pages. I'm honoured.

  • mona on November 8, 2006
    Rudy I want to translate one of your poems

    with your name to put in an Arabic site of poetry do ya mind ?
  • cvillelisa on October 31, 2006


    'Tis the night - the night
    Of the grave's delight,
    And the warlocks are at their play;
    Ye think that without
    The wild winds shout,
    But no, it is they - it is they.
    ~Arthur Cleveland Coxe


    Happy Halloowwweeeeeen!
  • cvillelisa on October 30, 2006


    HI

  • cvillelisa on October 10, 2006


    Hello.
    It has been too long. We need a new poem to read.

    Thank you.

    Lisa
  • mtpoet on July 25, 2006
    Lute,

    I have just completed a summer of directing a college program, teaching a class in folklore, literature, and composition, and living in a dorm as the resident director (co-ed, mind you). I am relieved it is over.

    I hope to be more frequent with my work here at AllPoetry. I am about one-quarter of the way into a new book of poetry and have begun another novel so I am much busier than it might appear online.

    I am pleased that you would ask me to comment on my work. That you see much of it related to the Chinese Tradition makes me qustion that myself. I like Chinese poetry--its nature scenes and other subject matter, but I was not aware that reading such had impacted me.

    I do use unique rhyming schemes that do not appear to be rhyme at all, but perhaps images placed down the page. In the unsettling poem : For D. B., for example, I rhyme (A-B-C in first stanza with C-B-A in second stanza). I then abandon rhyme for the third stanza and pick up the rhyme scheme in stanzas 4-9 and abandon it for the final stanza.

    In my new manuscript, I have even writtern a sonnet that is not Shakespearian or Spenserian. I suppose it could be tagged as Rudarian or worse. Reading such, one is not aware of the rhyme at all. That is my desire, at least, to have the reader's inner ear not detect it.

  • Lute on July 22, 2006
    This last poem (of which such infrequency of their appearance is most unsettling) has a slightly different flavor,

    However,

    much of your work seems re;lated to the Chinese Tradition, could I get a response on that?
  • mtpoet on April 12, 2006
    Cara--it feels good to hear from you. Hope all goes well at the university. I am busy--too busy most days, but having you praise my words so moves me to search my feelings for words...
  • Caramelah on April 11, 2006
    Okay, I haven't said hi to you in awhile. Been very busy, university and all. How goes everything with you?

    On a side note, I've never stopped reading you and getting freakin' teary-eyed over your gorgeous, gorgeous words.

    XOXOXOXO,
    Cara
  • RollingStone on December 25, 2005
    merry christmas rudy.

    ~travis
  • maria on December 23, 2005
    She is standing on my eyelids
    And her hair is wound in mine,
    She has the form of my hands,
    She has the colour of my eyes,
    She is swallowed by my shadow
    Like a stone against the sky.

    From The Beloved
    P. Eluard

    Happy Christmas and New Year, Rudy.
    Hope all is well with you.

    Maria
  • dp robertson on December 15, 2005
    I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

    David

    you are certainly one of the best writers on this site and one of the most enjoyable to read...anywhere
  • mtpoet on August 1, 2005
    Amazon.com also lists the new book...
  • RollingStone on July 2, 2005

    I just received your new book of poetry, To Risk Again. I love it! thanks for sending me a copy.

    how can I purchase additional copies?

    ~travis
  • Jaden on February 28, 2003
    A poem by Billy Collins:

    *Introduction to Poetry*

    I ask them to take a poem
    and hold it up to the light
    like a color slide

    or press an ear against its hive.

    I say drop a mouse into a poem
    and watch him probe his way out,

    or walk inside the poem's room
    and feel the walls for a light switch.

    I want them to water-ski
    across the surface of a poem
    waving at the author's name on the shore.

    But all they want to do
    is tie the poem to a chair with rope
    and torture a confession out of it.

    They begin beating it with a hose
    to find out what it really means.
  • on December 31, 2002
    Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.

    They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a 'wake'.


    Respect for the dead has always been a prominent feature of Irish culture. Indeed, a very special female spirit, the bean sí is often heard to announce by her wailing the impending death of a member of a family.

    A wide range of beliefs and practices were concerned with the issues of death and burial and, in former times, the waking of the dead was an important social occasion.

    People not only prayed, but also sang, told stories, and even played games at the wake of a departed relative or friend who had enjoyed a long and fulfilling life.

    This was considered the proper way to pay tribute to the deceased person.

    Although this tradition of wakes has now all but disappeared, the more inherently joyful stages in the life cycle, such as births and marriages, maintain their age-old importance as great communal occasions and are celebrated with feasting and conviviality.
    Edited by Cuchculan on right now.
  • mtpoet on January 27, 2002
    Caramelah, I appreciate the way you respond to my suggestions or explain your stand and stick to your guns...
  • mona on January 27, 2002
    thank you mtpoet for your sweet critique
    a big hello from Egypt
  • mtpoet on January 15, 2002
    Yes, nicely meant, K-chan...
  • K-chan on January 14, 2002
    I'm not sure how to take your comment on my poem 'Jester Bells.' Was that nicely meant or not? oo;
  • mtpoet on January 14, 2002
    What do you think? & I will look for 'Griffin and Sabine'...
  • denlexx on January 12, 2002
    thanks for your comment ...sure hope you read the others its a story :-)
  • mtpoet on January 12, 2002
    Ask me again if I liked it...I read it before I read this comment...
  • on January 3, 2002
    Was enjoying reading some of your wor and was wondering why the abbreviation of mt.is used to represent Mountain in your name and 2 poems? I'm from Montana which is Spanish word for Mountain,also the postal abbreviation is MT.Just wondering why you don't spell out the word. Could you please reply? Thanks!
  • mtpoet on January 3, 2002
    Glad to be back, jenneddin...
  • jenneddin on January 3, 2002
    Glad to see you back in that box.. :o)
  • mtpoet on January 3, 2002
    Caramelah...I hope I do not trip over anything but you...
  • mtpoet on December 20, 2001
    WishOnMars--I will visit again, soon...
  • mtpoet on December 20, 2001
    I will do that soon, slagman...
  • mtpoet on December 20, 2001
    Caramelah--I appreciate you--have been dropping by your words today...
  • WishOnMars on December 20, 2001
    Thanks so much for your comments on my poetry. I'm especially flattered after reading your work!
  • jenneddin on December 18, 2001
    I'm glad your reading them again.
  • on December 18, 2001
    Check out Cara's 'Phobia-files'; I granted her entry into the Slagomatic Hall of Fame, but I'm also considering giving her a brass door knocker as well!
  • on December 15, 2001
    mtpoet- would you be so kind as to check out JGordon's work entitled 'Pigeon Trilogy'. I think it deserves a critical review from someone of your writing caliber.
  • mtpoet on December 11, 2001
    Caramelah--thank you... More I feel, but more I can not say... Except that I return to your words each time I see you online...Thanks...
  • mtpoet on December 11, 2001
    jenneddin--read 'home' and left a comment... I will hike there through your words...
  • jenneddin on December 10, 2001
    Well, last night I did my 'mt poem'....it sort of got a little deeper than I intended though.....lol. Anyway...I'm happy:O) It's called 'home sick'...Thanks!

    Jenn
  • mtpoet on December 8, 2001
    jenneddin--you have already...
  • jenneddin on December 6, 2001
    I saw their reply...and it was oh, so bittersweet... How can I return the favor;)

    Jenn
  • mtpoet on December 6, 2001
    jenneddin,said hello to the mts for you & posted the reply...
  • mtpoet on December 6, 2001
    SheerPoetry--I was not meaning anything about the ending to Sheer Poetry--I was agreeing that your perceptions are right on track...
  • Sheer Poetry on December 6, 2001
    Hey MT....what exactly were you meaning about the ending to Sheer Poetry? I didn't quite get what you were saying.
  • ilenia on December 5, 2001
    Thanks mt, I added a few words to the ending of music ass suggested;-) I appreciate your input.
  • jenneddin on December 5, 2001
    Hello Mr. mtpoet..:o) Thank you for taking the time to read my work..
    I am a little lost as to how to add punctuation to my poems.....
    I miss the Appalachian Mountains...my heart remains there...I traded them for the sea..:o( So if you would, say hello to them for me...
  • Sheer Poetry on December 5, 2001
    Top o' the morning to ya MTPoet. Not sure how you 'missed it', but glad you 'caught it'. As well, I'm glad you like the titles. That's saying a mouthful within itself. Look forward to reading your stuff as well as seeing more of your thoughts on mine. - Sonia
  • boiledegg on December 4, 2001
    G'day mtpoet
    Thanks for your comments on my items :)
    lol@500words<< then that wouldn't fit into the story will it? lol
    Congrats on the 500works published. I can't get 1 publish maybe my time will come when I get tired of writing :)
    Hey thanks again *giggles* all the way out>>>>
  • mtpoet on December 4, 2001
    Yes, Uulee--nice you remember... strong beginnings and strong endings go a long way toward helping words survive on the page...
  • Uullee on December 4, 2001
    Hello Rudy, nice to see you again, it's been a while.. I remember.. strong endings..
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