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Viewing comments for Chapter 449 "A Winter Visit"Small and Specialty Poems
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Comment from Sankey
Hi there. loved the poem and the great photo. I came through here to see if you were still around. You did a review of my autobiography some time back and it is now approaching publishing. I am preparing a page of Acknowledgements to all my reviewers. So many have left FS. Glad you are still here.
Just one suggestion for change
Wonder just how long [that] they'll stay?
reply by the author on 01-Jan-2019
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Hi there. loved the poem and the great photo. I came through here to see if you were still around. You did a review of my autobiography some time back and it is now approaching publishing. I am preparing a page of Acknowledgements to all my reviewers. So many have left FS. Glad you are still here.
Just one suggestion for change
Wonder just how long [that] they'll stay?
Comment Written 15-Oct-2018
reply by the author on 01-Jan-2019
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Thank You Sankey. Sorry I took so long to respond. I haven't been on for a long time, Back for the new season now. I believe that I took your suggestion.
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Good hearing from you Happy New Year. Have a look at the Our Trips Book
Comment from Roxanna Andrews
Yes winter keep going and coming back for many, while in Fl we barely have any winter at all. I have come to like it that way, but wouldn't mind a season of much cooler days. I get very sick of the too hot days. Well done, hope you winter leaves before spring. Roxanna
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Yes winter keep going and coming back for many, while in Fl we barely have any winter at all. I have come to like it that way, but wouldn't mind a season of much cooler days. I get very sick of the too hot days. Well done, hope you winter leaves before spring. Roxanna
Comment Written 11-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Thank you Roxana. I do prefer cool to hot and muggy, but Spring will be welcome.
Comment from damommy
A new form of sonnet. Seems there are a lot of different ones. I'm still working on the Shakespearean ones.
I like this form. It's easier to read than those longer ones. I wish we'd had your snow, but we just got a smattering one day.
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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A new form of sonnet. Seems there are a lot of different ones. I'm still working on the Shakespearean ones.
I like this form. It's easier to read than those longer ones. I wish we'd had your snow, but we just got a smattering one day.
Comment Written 11-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Thank you Yvette. It all just came 2-4 inches at a time.
Comment from nancy_e_davis
That looks like our deck this winter. The three of us that live here are not able to shovel snow but finally my grand daughter came over and did it for us.
I have never heard of trochaic tetrameter, so I am in the dark on that but your rhyme scheme was good. Loved the subject and the picture. Always love your pictures. Well done. Nancy
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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That looks like our deck this winter. The three of us that live here are not able to shovel snow but finally my grand daughter came over and did it for us.
I have never heard of trochaic tetrameter, so I am in the dark on that but your rhyme scheme was good. Loved the subject and the picture. Always love your pictures. Well done. Nancy
Comment Written 11-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Thank you Nancy. Trichee is the exact opposite of iambic. It has the accent stressed on the first if each metrical foot (2 syllables, rather than on the second.
Comment from jppoet
While your poems are always triumphantly Treischelesque, artfully sculpted in rhymes and cadences, I am always tittilated by your appending treatises, this time in treatment of trochaic tetrameter. Tante bella cosa! john
ps: its snowy scene reminded me of my "SNOW, RAIN and SUN" entry in the HAIKU POETRY CONTEST, which I think you reviewed, now under Committee consideration. You would like it, if not already viewed. jp
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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While your poems are always triumphantly Treischelesque, artfully sculpted in rhymes and cadences, I am always tittilated by your appending treatises, this time in treatment of trochaic tetrameter. Tante bella cosa! john
ps: its snowy scene reminded me of my "SNOW, RAIN and SUN" entry in the HAIKU POETRY CONTEST, which I think you reviewed, now under Committee consideration. You would like it, if not already viewed. jp
Comment Written 11-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Thank you John. I think I did too. Your comments are most uplifting.
Comment from Sandra du Plessis
A very well-written Diciasette Sonnet. Old man Winter seems to have a great visit on your back deck and made himself quite comfortable waiting for the sun to warm him up a little.
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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A very well-written Diciasette Sonnet. Old man Winter seems to have a great visit on your back deck and made himself quite comfortable waiting for the sun to warm him up a little.
Comment Written 11-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Thank you Sandra. Yes he did.
Comment from Pantygynt
This has the sonnet structure with a volta at line 11 rather like that tannet thinh I showed you the other day. What is the absolute answer to the question, what is a sonnet? It is not the fourteen lines, it is not the existence of a set meter, it is not even the presence of a volta, neither is it three quatrains and a couplet. When do we stop trying to find a universally acceptable definition and become, in Macbeth's words, "damned be he who first cries "Hold! Enough".
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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This has the sonnet structure with a volta at line 11 rather like that tannet thinh I showed you the other day. What is the absolute answer to the question, what is a sonnet? It is not the fourteen lines, it is not the existence of a set meter, it is not even the presence of a volta, neither is it three quatrains and a couplet. When do we stop trying to find a universally acceptable definition and become, in Macbeth's words, "damned be he who first cries "Hold! Enough".
Comment Written 11-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Thank you Pantygynt. Yes, indeed. Your Pantygonnet made it into my book. Still awaiting publisher release.
Comment from Joan E.
Wow--that's a heck of a lot of snow! Shoveling must have replaced going to the gym!! I did not know there are so many sonnet forms and I enjoyed this elongated format. I admired your rhymes and use of personification. Cheers and here's to spring- Joan
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Wow--that's a heck of a lot of snow! Shoveling must have replaced going to the gym!! I did not know there are so many sonnet forms and I enjoyed this elongated format. I admired your rhymes and use of personification. Cheers and here's to spring- Joan
Comment Written 11-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Thank you Joan. I'll drink to that!
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
It's difficult to kick winter out because it tends to linger, but your strong, no nonsense write should do the trick! A fun write, and a chilling picture, roll on spring, love Dolly x
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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It's difficult to kick winter out because it tends to linger, but your strong, no nonsense write should do the trick! A fun write, and a chilling picture, roll on spring, love Dolly x
Comment Written 11-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 11-Mar-2018
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Thank you Dolly. Yes, yes, roll on Spring!
