This Poem was Submitted By: Duane J Jackson On Date: 2009-01-01 23:10:39 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!To Listen to Music While Reading this Poem, just Click Here!
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My December Votes 1.Points: 20 Ecce Ancilla Domini submitted by Mark Steven Scheffer on 2008-12-22 12:39:17
2.Points: 18 The Sleigh Ride submitted by Tony P Spicuglia on 2008-12-26 11:20:57
3.Points: 16 Learning to Miss Someone submitted by Terry Anctil on 2008-12-14
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4.Points: 14 i held my breath to hear submitted by Mary J Coffman on 2008-12-23 16:04:45
5.Points: 12 You Say You're Spiritual?!! submitted by James C. Horak on 2008-12-22 08:29:37
6.Points: 10 The Comings and Goings submitted by Dellena Rovito on 2008-12-07 18:29:34
7.Points: 8 Fourteen Lines for St. Edmund Campion submitted by Mark Steven Scheffer on 2008-12-01 10:42:08
8.Points: 6 Pace of Grace In Life submitted by DeniMari Z. on 2008-12-15 22:51:12
9.Points: 4 Those Not Here submitted by Mark Steven Scheffer on 2008-12-
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Copyright © January 2009 Duane J Jackson
Additional Notes:
A good month. Almost 100 critiques. Nice to have Mary, Tony and Terry back. I hope we see them more often.
This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2009-02-05 13:06:14
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Duane,
I appreciate the vote, and your efforts at the site.
Mark
This Poem was Critiqued By: Claire H. Currier On Date: 2009-01-10 03:03:44
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
Thank you for posting your choices for the month Duane. Down under with the flu bug I am as you can tell I am slower then slow these days. It is nice to find more poets posting again and I know we all pray it continues as the year begins anew. Stay warm and healthy. God Bless, Claire
This Poem was Critiqued By: James C. Horak On Date: 2009-01-02 10:11:52
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
You bet, so do I. Discriminating selections, Duane, and well supportable. I think we're getting
somewhere. I'll post my vote after the seventh, since I was first off the line to cast it. The
top poems were clearly the best (so far) and that's the point I've been making all along. When
new talent breezes through they now see not only some good poems but the discerning reception they
get here. I've always believed that's far more attractive than members being chummy with each other.
MSS creates an indepth poem of rare quality, so diverse in facets yet unified in meaning. Mary Coffman
has her typical alluring sensual (but highly subtle) qualities, but turns them to a seasonal flair
of wonderful imagery and poetic language. Terry, always offering cerebreal complexity polished into
well controlled emotion expressed in poetic language, sustained beautifully in imagery, presents us with
one of those vexations all who have known mixed feelings must have. Your revised poem is a success, too.
There is an interesting style running through most of your work that's one day going to have a flavor of
its own. It makes your reader confident that you would not say something you did not only mean, but had
not felt. Tony is a thoughtful poet and critic and he has faith in his intelligence. Everything he writes
bears close reading. At any time he's liable to win first place. Dellena is a little warrior, full of spunk
she's found intersting ways to share in her poetry. It has improved, not just in style and form, but in
power. Claire loves poetry and gives her reactions to ours openly, honestly and with an absence of guile
so refreshing you want to kiss her cheek. Rene has image making ability and a writer's bent, and she loves
the success of others. Soon she will have her own. Mark my words. There are many others that have come and
gone I can say and justify glowing comments about. Many to be missed. Whatever their reasoning, no one was
turned away that I can recall. If we are to become the ideal, masters of words, words should never become
instruments of separation with and between us. Diversity and tolerance are the proudest hopes for the future
of our world and poets, in their finest task, are the vanguards for this message. Some have even given their
lives representing it.
It is a New Year. I wish all peace and love in it.
JCH
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