http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/ Poetry Works Tue, 12 May 2009 20:01:54 GMT Pegleghill@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/554 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/554 Hi David Nice, short and right to the point. I like this one as it is. Good job. Margaret Ellis Hill in CA Tue, 12 May 2009 20:00:44 GMT Kay Cox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/553 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/553 Powerful image in a few short lines....love "granite stumps" and "weeds from your hair".  Kay Cox The Gypsy Crone "Treat everyone you meet like God in Mon, 11 May 2009 23:30:13 GMT Oscar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/552 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/552 I like the title, however it doesn't seem to work for this poem. First stanza: Frozen panes, tattered weeds and ice glazed eaves do not convey a feeling of Mon, 11 May 2009 23:28:35 GMT dcmapa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/551 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/551 Spring Cleaning in this field of granite stumps I recall once you held me on a bony knee and I complained now my knees complain sinking in spring soaked earth Wed, 06 May 2009 22:23:44 GMT Kay Cox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/550 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/550 I love this and the revisions you have made.  One suggestion:  2nd stanza, last line I think should read "glint", singular...referring to the "Ice slicks" Wed, 06 May 2009 22:22:36 GMT Kay Cox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/549 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/549 Wild Woman Found Buried in Suburbia The Story of a Life in Six Words She can be found inside the box among neat rows of look-alike houses with vans and SUVs Wed, 06 May 2009 22:19:27 GMT David Cowen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/548 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/548 William Carlos Williams' winter poems were purely imagistic. Frost anthropomorphized winter into a death wish. Both of those guys (and perhaps John Keats) made Wed, 06 May 2009 22:13:13 GMT Barbara A Carle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/547 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/547 Hi Mary: Loved the poem. Great imagery, especially the lines "shoes the feet of barren trees" and "glints like silver buttons on new coats." The poem made Tue, 05 May 2009 01:44:58 GMT J LAVERNWAY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/546 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/546 Your poem made me want to see snow again. It is beautiful. June Lavernway Mon, 04 May 2009 21:04:27 GMT Mary Margaret Carlisle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/545 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/545 Silent, Soft and Slow Frost like lace on frozen panes glitters from each tattered weed. Smoke spirals past the ice-glazed eaves snowflakes spill like falling Mon, 04 May 2009 21:00:47 GMT Oscar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/544 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/544 Old Eyes at the Art Institute of Chicago A sequence of seven black and white photographs The Bogey Man by Duane Michals Glass panes cast gray light into room Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:18:53 GMT leo waltz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/543 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/543 The new web site for HPF 2009 is http://HoustonPoetryFest.info or www.HoustonPoetryFest.info The old web sites that ended with .net and .org are no longer Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:54:25 GMT Tina Cardona http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/542 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/542 I love the play on words and retrospection.  I would try to cut back on the "ings."  And I removed the extra "s" in Kingsville -- harder to read out Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:53:09 GMT Tina Cardona http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/541 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/541 I really like how this evokes a time and place.  It has a very clipped sound (like the rhythm in the dance I suppose!) and so, the only change I would suggest Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:10:30 GMT Mary Margaret Carlisle http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/540 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoetryWorks/message/540 Houston Poetry Fest 2009 will be held in the Willow Street Pump Station of the University of Houston ? Downtown on October 8, 9, and 10. Guest Poets and a