This Poem was Submitted By: James C. Horak On Date: 2008-12-06 11:38:26 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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My November Vote

 Points: 6.9444 a non sequitur submitted by Terry Anctil on 2008-11-22 02:29:33  Points: 6.24996 From Exodus to the Edge submitted by Mark Steven Scheffer on 2008-11-11 18:48:28  Points: 5.55552 P O P C O R N submitted by Dellena Rovito on 2008-11-12 23:21:39  Points: 4.86108 My Birthday Wish submitted by Rene L Bennett on 2008-11-23 19:34:57  Points: 4.16664 River Breeze submitted by Duane J Jackson on 2008-11-08 01:00:39  Points: 3.4722 Can't Be Ripped Away submitted by DeniMari Z. on 2008-11-23 23:49:52  Points: 2.77776 Autumn Tambourines submitted by DeniMari Z. on 2008-11-04 00:04:25 I would place Autumn Tambourines higher but it is a second posting of submission. In this poem, DeniMari best demonstrates her potential and the title alone is poetry. Would that she would stay, but that is her choice to make. If she persists in leaving she will be missed. I've already praised Terry's poem, anymore would be less. Mark's poem is an easy choice, but I'm looking forward to voting for his first poem submitted in December. Dellena is settling into a style wonderfully folksy, in the fashion of the great American Humorists. Rene makes beautiful imagery in her own style, some might regard as more prose than poem. But imagery is imagery = poetry in my universe. Duane, as MSS notes, is not up to his usual mark with, River Breeze, but the imagery and interesting rhyme is still there. Again, I agree with MSS's regard for DeniMari's, Can't be Ripped Away. Regarding Patton's, Overlooked, in the context of the anti-intellectualism he has demonstrated to me, if venting that is the only way he can write something interesting...well that's a pity. My esteem to MSS for starting an even more progressed trend to our posting these voting disclosures by adding commentary on our choices. We're moving more and more to a society of poets than settling in to some redundant repetition of just another online mutual admiration society. Now THAT would be worthy of being "overlooked". 

Copyright © December 2008 James C. Horak


This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2008-12-30 11:43:22
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
JCH, The way it should be, and will be. Amen. MSS


This Poem was Critiqued By: Claire H. Currier On Date: 2008-12-09 23:15:37
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Enjoyed reading your choices for the month's contest....must say I agree with many of your top choices...So often one gets lost in the reading, the meaning, the value of it all.......I'm honestly looking forward to the day my sleeping muse wakes me in the middle of the night with so much jabber I'll never complain again about his snoring.....Thanks again for being such an important part of TPL .....God Bless, Claire
This Poem was Critiqued By: Duane J Jackson On Date: 2008-12-06 23:46:28
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
Hi James, Thank you for your consideration of 'river breeze' and I respect your comments and agree with the fact that this was not as tight or powerful as 'caves of separation'. Perhaps, I shine more in the dark than in the light. It's my darker poems that have always been stronger...I wonder if 'riverside sundown' - my latest post, establishes that or serves as a flagpost for writers block (smile)...Thanks again for the efforts made by you and the others to make this site invaluable... Duane.
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