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toking
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Welcome to the Poetry Conference
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Feb 17 15:43 UTC 1999 |
Welcome to the latsest and greatest incarnation of the poetry conference
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response 1 of 137:
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Feb 17 21:38 UTC 1999 |
<Responce #1! Wow>
Glad to be here. Anybody feel like explaining what this is all about for any
newcomers who drop in?
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bookworm
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response 2 of 137:
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Feb 18 22:36 UTC 1999 |
This conference is for all of us budding poets to post poetry for public
appreciation and also for critiqueing. As all the world knows, a poem
is never really finished, just abandoned.
In other words, this conference is the perfect place to post your poetry
so that you can get other poet's opinions on them before you decide to
"abandon" them.
So, no matter whether your poetry is great or not-so-great, post your
new poetry here by typing "enter" at the "OK:" prompt, or by clicking
the "enter" button in backtalk.
Does that about cover it you guys?
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response 3 of 137:
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Feb 19 00:57 UTC 1999 |
Commies are Red,
PC's are Blue,
i've updated "po_etry",
so it points here for you!
<i runs away before they can heat up the tar>
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toking
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response 4 of 137:
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Feb 19 08:59 UTC 1999 |
<tee-hee>
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logansan
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response 5 of 137:
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Feb 19 18:31 UTC 1999 |
Couldn't resist being that number 5 is a favorite of mine.
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toking
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response 6 of 137:
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Feb 19 19:28 UTC 1999 |
I might suggest that we all introduce ourselves here as well (just for
kicks, and so new comers may feel a little more comfortable posting if
they know a little about their audience)
My name is Joe Parish, I've been on grex for a good long time now (not
near as long as some, but longer than others (ok, so about 4 or 5 years
now)) and I've been posting to the poetry conf since..ohhh, somewhere
around item 80 or 90 of the first conf.
I live in St. Joseph MI, which, if you were curious, is exit 27 by way
of I-94 and if you have no idea what that means, well, it's in southwest
michigan, right on lake michigan.
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response 7 of 137:
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Feb 19 21:03 UTC 1999 |
Oh Kay. I'm Josh Leckrone, I'm a high school senior this year (class of
1999), and will be attending Kendall College of Art and Design next year.
I've been posting almost as long as I've been grexing, which is to say, since
around Item 113 of the last Poetry conf. About a year and a half.
I attend community high school in Ann Arbor, MI.
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orinoco
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response 8 of 137:
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Feb 19 23:12 UTC 1999 |
I'm Dan. I'm a Community High senior, headed for the U of Chicago. I've been
grexing since middle school sometime. This is one of the main conferences
I hang ou;t in, actually, but you wouldn't guess from seeing how little I post
:)
My other main interest besides poetry is music, but I guess that's a whole
'nother conference....
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remmers
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response 9 of 137:
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Feb 20 13:02 UTC 1999 |
John's my monicker. My day job is teaching computer science. I've had
periods where I'm inspired to write poetry, interspersed with longer
periods where I'm not. When inspired, I post stuff here.
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dbc
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response 10 of 137:
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Feb 20 15:02 UTC 1999 |
Think Small
Why am I told to try and think big
when I am only small?
You can talk about forever
but you won't last that long at all.
We try to make big conversation,
we imagine worth in complexities
but I love it when you talk about nothing;
I love it when we're all that there is.
I'd rather make noise in the moment
and walk away baggage free.
I'd rather pretend it was simple
and spend my energy on being me.
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allida
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response 11 of 137:
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Feb 20 16:59 UTC 1999 |
Hi
I am allida :)
I was a student in the theatre school of depaul university until november...
that is in chicago. i still live in chicago but don' go to depaul. i am
planning on starting outas a junior transfer student at the school of the art
institue of chicago in the fall... yay dan.. come to my city :) anyway... i
am from ann arbor originally and have been grexing about two years... i
graduated from huron high school in 1996 uh yeah
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faile
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Feb 20 19:45 UTC 1999 |
Okay... hi. I'm Jessi. I've been hanging around here since about 1995.
Right now I'm a music and theater design student at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, TN, though only for a year and a little bit more.
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arianna
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Feb 20 23:07 UTC 1999 |
Hi, I'm Erinn (the famous "missing" poetry fairwitness). I'm proud to say
that I'm an Interlochen Arts Academy graduate (that's where I found grex
with Jessi and the other IAA grexers on that auspicious day in Oct.,
1995,) and a Florida State University drop out. Currently looking for
work and on a wild goose chase for spiritual enlightenment, I spend too
little time writing and even less posting these days. *sigh* (Though once
upon a time I was probably posting almost as much as Jenna (she was
poetry's 2nd fw, for the uninformed).)
oh, and Jessi-rar: I miss you. )'=
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lumen
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response 14 of 137:
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Feb 22 07:57 UTC 1999 |
I'm Jonathan. I'm a 3rd year senior at CWU (I've been to a couple of
schools), and will be switching back to a major in music education after
having been an Elementary Ed major. For those of you who are still
wondering, I was in music for a semester at a junior college, then I got
an A.A., and then I was in Environmental Studies at a private college
for a year and a half.
I love all the arts although music is my primary focus right now. I've
long loved to write poetry and this conference has been a great output
although I've had a dry spell of inspiration lately.
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bookworm
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Feb 22 21:56 UTC 1999 |
I'm Julie, Jonathan's new wife of (as of today) two months and a little.
I'm also a student at CWU, currently studying as a theater arts major
specializing in Design and Technical aspects. I have been in school on
and off before Jon and I were married. I have been writing poetry since
I graduated high school.
For those of you who are curious, Jon is five years or so younger than
I.
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faile
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response 16 of 137:
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Feb 23 23:12 UTC 1999 |
I miss you too, Erinn-rar
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toking
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response 17 of 137:
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Feb 26 18:31 UTC 1999 |
O.K. I'm trying to find something for the poetry2 login
screen....anyone have a suggestion?
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bookworm
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response 18 of 137:
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Feb 26 21:51 UTC 1999 |
You mean a poem.
How about something from Shakespeare?
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logansan
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response 19 of 137:
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Feb 28 01:56 UTC 1999 |
.... let us sit upon the cold ground and tell sad stories about the
death of kings .....
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bookworm
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response 20 of 137:
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Mar 1 03:23 UTC 1999 |
That's an interesting one.
That or one of his sonnets maybe.
How about this one?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
Oh, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks uon tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
--Wm. Shakespeare, 1609
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bookworm
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response 21 of 137:
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Mar 1 03:24 UTC 1999 |
Grr. The word "uon" in the sixth line should be "upon"
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toking
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response 22 of 137:
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Mar 4 17:35 UTC 1999 |
happy birthday brighn
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lumen
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response 23 of 137:
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Mar 8 17:53 UTC 1999 |
Oh, hey-- didn't know, Paul-- happy birthday :)
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bookworm
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response 24 of 137:
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Mar 8 19:08 UTC 1999 |
Yeah. Kudos, Paul.
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