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[title] => Answer My Question
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[bodytext] => An honest answer I pursue.
Reflecting on each word you penned,
What do their meanings mean to you?
Are your convictions of 'self' true
Or merely ashes in the wind?
An honest answer I pursue.
Though revisors claim to construe,
They cannot fully comprehend
What your expressions means to you.
As editors, have they rights to
Alter contents which you intend?
An honest answer I pursue.
They will redact as they review.
Instead, disagree and contend
What your poetry means to you.
Before your poem makes it's debut
Is it all that you had visioned?
An honest answer I pursue
What do your verses mean to you?
Yvonne Denise Springer
Copyright ©2002 Yvonne Denise Springer
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Answer My Question
Contributed by
springchic1979
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Tuesday, 22nd July 2003 @ 05:35:00 PM in AEST
Topic:
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An honest answer I pursue.
Reflecting on each word you penned,
What do their meanings mean to you?
Are your convictions of 'self' true
Or merely ashes in the wind?
An honest answer I pursue.
Though revisors claim to construe,
They cannot fully comprehend
What your expressions means to you.
As editors, have they rights to
Alter contents which you intend?
An honest answer I pursue.
They will redact as they review.
Instead, disagree and contend
What your poetry means to you.
Before your poem makes it's debut
Is it all that you had visioned?
An honest answer I pursue
What do your verses mean to you?
Yvonne Denise Springer
Copyright ©2002 Yvonne Denise Springer
Copyright ©
springchic1979
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2003-07-22 17:35:00]
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Re: Answer My Question
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by Ilhar on
Tuesday, 22nd July 2003 @ 11:03:34 PM AEST
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good write
Shari |
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Re: Answer My Question
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by tease_whizz on
Wednesday, 23rd July 2003 @ 11:15:40 AM AEST
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| an excellent, well structured write - especially as villanelle form is challenging. i experimented with this form in my poem 'monochrome conformity', you might enjoy it, although i forgot to use the repeated lines. a great poem, Kate x |
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Re: Answer My Question
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by springchic1979 on
Sunday, 27th July 2003 @ 11:25:37 PM AEST
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Thank you Shari.
Yvonne |
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Re: Answer My Question
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by springchic1979 on
Sunday, 27th July 2003 @ 11:27:41 PM AEST
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Thank you Kate. I am off to look at your poem now.
Yvonne |
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Re: Answer My Question
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by Wrybod on
Friday, 1st August 2003 @ 04:04:48 AM AEST
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First question "Are my convictions of self true?"
Answer yes.
I stopped deluding myself when I retired. There was no need to try and impress anybody anymore
Second question "Do I get my meaning across?" Yes, If editors want to alter my work they don't get it. I work at it till I think it's right before I post it. If on mature reflection I see faults or if the response (reads) is comparitively poor I withdraw it.
Queston three "Is it all I envsaged?" Only one or two are that satisfactory. Even then there's always a word or a verse I'd like to alter. I'm reaching a stage where comments and other poets work is affecting my views to such an extent that I will be withdrawing
some poems and re-writing.
them
Fourth Question "What does it all mean to me?" Hours of pleasure read my poem "Is this what heavens like?" |
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Re: Answer My Question
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by springchic1979 on
Friday, 1st August 2003 @ 04:28:18 PM AEST
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Dear Wrybod,
I want to thank you for taking the time to respond to my poem.
I want to give you a little background as to why I wrote this poem.
I was a 'former' member of a poetry site whose editors took it upon themselves to alter peoples poetry without consent.
At first I believe it was just an honest mistake and asked that they put my poems back to their origional form because I had no grammer, puncuation, or spelling mistakes and there was no reason for them to randomly change my words.
I was asked not to mention their editing poetry to other members of the board until they had a chance to "see what was going on".
I didn't like the idea of keeping quiet and mentioned it was a copyright infringement and stated that if their editing was truely an accident they should make a public apology and change all the poetry back to its origional form.
Because I pointed out their violation and refused to idly stand by...I was booted from that site and was unable to post again.
I got mad and this poem was a result of my feelings towards that particular situation.
I would rather have all my poetry removed and be banned from being able to post again then to have some editor with their thumb up their arse altering my poems which took me days to write and perfect.
So I wrote this poem...asking people what their poetry means to them.
Would they let someone re-write their poems just for the chance to have it displayed?
Not me...I don't want someone to tell me which words I can use to express how I feel.
Anyway I am sorry for rambling and mean no disrespect to you or your response to my poem. I just wanted to let you know why I wrote this poem and why I was aking the questions within the poem.
Respectfully,
Yvonne |
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Re: Answer My Question
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by SuicidalSon on
Friday, 1st August 2003 @ 05:06:17 PM AEST
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To answer your question my poetry is my life
and I to have had a site chage my words and made it totally retarded thats why I stick with this site I dont have hardly any problems here
good write to by the way |
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Re: Answer My Question
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by springchic1979 on
Tuesday, 5th August 2003 @ 08:38:14 PM AEST
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Thank you SuicidalSon. I also like YPDC because it does not alter what is written by the poet. I think Mick does an excellent job running this site.
Yvonne |
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Re: Answer My Question
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by Lionel on
Wednesday, 17th March 2004 @ 03:45:14 PM AEST
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First- you are an exceptional poet. Now, Take the esses off "mean", in the third; and "right", in the forth stanza. Then you can dress me down and I'll still be happy. God Bless
Ps. If you decide to "read me" Do: "With Good Purpose" or "An Appeal To Secular Reason". |
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