[New-Poetry] emailing Mary Oliver

[Anny Ballardini]

I am wondering, Bob, are you an only child, or the youngest maybe? We always
end up talking to you and about you, it doesn't matter where we start from.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:26 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

> Jeff -- very funny.
>
> Jeff Newberry wrote:
>
>>
>> >Sorry, _______, but somebody's gotta be Mr. Negative around here.
>> >I think _________ did ____________ wonderfully well at times
>> >but that __________ is a weak imitation of what ____did then.
>> I made a template for you, Bob!
>>
>> Just cut and paste the above into any thread in which someone on NewPoetry
>> praises a poem.  That way, you'll save yourself a few keystrokes.  Feel free
>> to plug in a few neologisms if the spirit moves you--bonus points if you can
>> work in the word *mediocrity*.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jeff "Madlibs" Newberry
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net<mailto:
>> bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    Anny Ballardini wrote:
>>
>>        This is exceptional writing:
>>
>>        At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
>>        after a night of rain.
>>        I dip my cupped hands. I drink
>>        a long time. It tastes
>>        like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold
>>        into my body, waking the bones. I hear them
>>        deep inside me, whispering
>>        oh what is that beautiful thing
>>        that just happened?
>>
>>
>>    --Bob
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> --
>> You cannot tell people what to do, you can only tell them parables; and
>> that is what art really is, particular stories of particular people and
>> experience, from which each according to his own immediate and peculiar
>> needs may draw his own conclusion. --W.H. Auden
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star!
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