Comments on: Friday poem http://online.worldmag.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/ A forum for discussion of news that arises at the intersection of Christianity and culture. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:02:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Harrison Scott Key http://online.worldmag.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/comment-page-1/#comment-291864 Harrison Scott Key Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:14:36 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/#comment-291864 LLAMA, For the third or fourth time, your "prose vs. poem" comments are repetitive and not helpful to those who have move passed your concern and would like to discuss the poem. If you cannot understand why poems are constructed as they are, I am sorry. Your comments, while once witty and ironic, are now distracting from the small handful of people who'd actually like to discuss the poem. Those people are not many. Only five to ten people really comment on any given poem, and you do your best to throw a red herring into the conversation. From now on, as long as I am able, I will delete any this-could-be-prose comments. I am sorry. I like you, I do. LLAMA,

For the third or fourth time, your “prose vs. poem” comments are repetitive and not helpful to those who have move passed your concern and would like to discuss the poem. If you cannot understand why poems are constructed as they are, I am sorry. Your comments, while once witty and ironic, are now distracting from the small handful of people who’d actually like to discuss the poem. Those people are not many. Only five to ten people really comment on any given poem, and you do your best to throw a red herring into the conversation.

From now on, as long as I am able, I will delete any this-could-be-prose comments. I am sorry. I like you, I do.

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]]> By: kimberly http://online.worldmag.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/comment-page-1/#comment-291797 kimberly Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:54:49 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/#comment-291797 Harris, I love the prairies too ... live on them, and there's nothing so beautiful as the Midwest. Harris, I love the prairies too … live on them, and there’s nothing so beautiful as the Midwest.

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]]> By: VS http://online.worldmag.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/comment-page-1/#comment-291765 VS Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:16:14 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/#comment-291765 Delightful. Lovely. Delightful. Lovely.

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]]> By: llama http://online.worldmag.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/comment-page-1/#comment-291743 llama Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:26:01 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/#comment-291743 If you take it and write it out instead putting it on lines, you will see this fine prose and a lousy poem. If you take it and write it out instead putting it on lines, you will see this fine prose and a lousy poem.

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]]> By: Harris http://online.worldmag.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/comment-page-1/#comment-291708 Harris Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:48:43 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/#comment-291708 Partially, because I love the eastern prairies of the front range, I was taken with the poem. I love the shift from China to the prairie, then the excursion into history (the grandfather the Chinese laborer who built the railroad through the mountains), and finally that reconsidering of heaven. Underneath it there's this nice meditation about knowing where we come from, and how that leads us back home. Very nice. Partially, because I love the eastern prairies of the front range, I was taken with the poem. I love the shift from China to the prairie, then the excursion into history (the grandfather the Chinese laborer who built the railroad through the mountains), and finally that reconsidering of heaven.

Underneath it there’s this nice meditation about knowing where we come from, and how that leads us back home.

Very nice.

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]]> By: Graceland http://online.worldmag.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/comment-page-1/#comment-291694 Graceland Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:04:47 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/#comment-291694 Nice to see a poem that reads well. I'm not sure what it all means, but that's not what's important. Nice to see a poem that reads well.

I’m not sure what it all means, but that’s not what’s important.

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]]> By: kimberly http://online.worldmag.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/comment-page-1/#comment-291692 kimberly Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:01:13 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/04/11/friday-poem-32/#comment-291692 I love this poem ... it has a neat dreamy feeling (last stanza especially.) I love this poem … it has a neat dreamy feeling (last stanza especially.)

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