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Re: Interment
« Reply #30 on: February 20, 2009, 09:16:57 PM » by brian_edwards

Are they different?

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Re: Interment
« Reply #31 on: February 20, 2009, 09:22:50 PM » by brian_edwards

Ah, I see. Interesting. I need to think on this.

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Re: Interment
« Reply #32 on: February 20, 2009, 09:25:57 PM » by Scott Douglas

sorry, I posted this before reading your previous post.

I guess not. ("are they different ?")
then at what point is something "a pick" ?

I like the poem.
I think the idea of coming to terms with an event
is akin to burying it.

the blend of a physical and mental burial IS the poem
to me.
so therefore it works, the rest is clean up.
(not necessarily easy)

but as I said earlier
to defend a poem is like explaining a joke.
either you laugh or you don't.

even if the premise is not 100% sound (hypothetically)
it can still be an effective poem because the reader
has experienced whatever it is that is liked about poetry.

I hope you realise that I just enjoy discussing things
and that I am in no way emotional.

I'm the ice man, remember ?

:)

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Re: Interment
« Reply #33 on: February 21, 2009, 12:27:33 AM » by Tom Riordan

Quote from: Scott Douglas on February 19, 2009, 03:35:51 PM

She dies every year
at this time.
I'd forgotten when I phoned.

Her first weary word, dragged
waist deep through widow mud,
reminded me.

It was six years ago
that he died but
until the thaw

you can't bury the dead.

Way back, Scott, I thought the widow being in the mud didn't quite make sense since the ground was supposed to sbe frozen. Then I made my peace with it because it was the widow's interment, not the man's, that the poem was about; so I thought, she's interred in her mud because she has been unable to bury her husband. But the title change makes that reading less sound, so I'm back to my original problem. Tom

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Re: Interment
« Reply #34 on: April 19, 2009, 03:21:34 PM » by Lynn Doiron

Quote from: Scott Douglas on February 19, 2009, 03:35:51 PM

She dies every year
at this time.
I'd forgotten when I phoned.

Her first weary word, dragged
waist deep through widow mud,
reminded me.

It was six winters ago
that he died but
until the thaw

you can't bury the dead.

Superb, Scott. My own "widow's mud" has thinned over the years, but there are particular dates that, in order to move on, one galosh or the other is sucked off and stays behind. Especially like the close on this; for some, the thaw never comes; the dead remain unburied.

lynn

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Re: Interment
« Reply #35 on: April 19, 2009, 06:23:34 PM » by Ken Robson

Scott,

This is fine, fine poetry. From the heart,
severs the jugular. Etched in indelible ink.

Ken

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receptiveness to those connections, the art of letting one
thing lead to another until, if only locally and momentarily,
you realize some small completeness.

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Re: Interment
« Reply #36 on: April 19, 2009, 06:27:34 PM » by milner place

Bravo, Maggie. Bravo, Scott.

milner

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Re: Interment
« Reply #37 on: April 19, 2009, 10:42:52 PM » by Tiko Lewis

Well done. An excellent pick for front page. Great job Scott.

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Re: Interment
« Reply #38 on: April 20, 2009, 07:56:30 AM » by Scott Douglas

a great surprise.
thanks for putting me on your welcome mat.

I'm honoured.

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Re: Interment
« Reply #39 on: April 20, 2009, 07:06:30 PM » by EMH

This is a wonderful read, thanks.

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Re: Interment
« Reply #40 on: April 20, 2009, 09:11:02 PM » by Lavonne Westbrooks

I just twittered you Scott!

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Re: Interment
« Reply #41 on: April 20, 2009, 10:03:22 PM » by Scott Douglas

I thought I felt something?!
:)
I'll check that out.

...and thanks to you also EMH.

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Re: Interment
« Reply #42 on: April 21, 2009, 12:45:26 AM » by Timothy Juhl

OMG! I'd totally forgotten about this poem. Scott, this is just as striking as the first time I read it. I couldn't be more enthused about it being on the Front Page.

Tim

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Re: Interment
« Reply #43 on: April 21, 2009, 04:46:17 AM » by jamesthomashoward

Ditto praise and congratulations Mr Douglas.

James

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Cough.

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