02-13-2015, 02:07 PM
(02-13-2015, 05:02 AM)Erthona Wrote: ... Do I need to do more critiques of you poems? ...
Dale
No. I do very few crits of other's works. Each time someone takes the time
to crit one of mine it makes me feel egotistical and selfish. The first doesn't bother
me so much as the last. Being selfish is being conservative and I hate the thought
that anyone would think me such. (Not that I would try to stop you as any attention
whatsoever leaves me in a state of pleasure so pathetic that it borders on the supernatural.)
Yours in stigmatic opprobrium,
Ray
(02-13-2015, 08:20 AM)Erthona Wrote: ___________________________________________________
Tommy two tone wrote: "Hmmm. If I said this was a contrivance would you hold it against me?"
Ah see, this is what one so often gets when opening oneself to criticism. Ray chastised me for trying to do away with tricky and here you rebuke me for using it. To me, the question should be, not is it a contrivance since all of poetry is in some way a contrivance, but is it a good contrivance. I do not think it is a bad contrivance since it has a solid foundation within my use of the term succubus.
Oh muddle-headed me!
Yes, it's trickery, but the best surpass ALL truth.
It's about not getting caught.
Ray
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions