Notice of absence from Doggerel Dave
Not absent - still here!
Keep Calm and Carry On Poeming. 😂
Not absent - still here!
Keep Calm and Carry On Poeming. 😂
O aspiring poet – thanks for your call;
You came to show us your work – is that all?
Here’s your first poem – on what, may I ask?
I cannot read it – I’m not up to this task:
All about Nature Love or Suicide?
With irregular spacing, you decide.
And no need to bother with other’s work -
That will be one task so easy to shirk.
No background no context do you provide;
It stands alone, a masterpiece, you decide.
Nothing about you – moving right along
To yet another site with its call so strong…….
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Doggerel Dave (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: September 7th, 2021 20:44
- Comment from author about the poem: Writ in thirty minutes (sorry, 45) to relieve just a little my occasional frustration……
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Hmmmmm? OK. Nice rant.
Yes - that woz all it woz - eased the irritations for five minutes....
You are really upto the task. May be not a master piece but you are really upto the task. A beautiful read. Thanks for sharing
You don't have to tell me I'm up to the task twice - I may get a big head.... At the same time I can see that you feel I should (not a masterpiece) try harder. Thanks for the crit - always welcome.
LOL so many of us will know the thoughts expressed here having seen 'poems' appearing from 'poets' who don't appear to be interersted in reading anyone elses poetry, let alone daring to actually comment or join in. Should we feel honoured to be graced with such offerings? I must admit the one's who disply their OCD to post religious rants (poetry?) do tempt me to light their blue touch paper and watch the fireworks.
Gave me a big smile.
Glad of that, Dusk. If I managed to dish out a few smiles to old timers such as you, the whole enterprise was worthwhile.
Some things never change on this site. It’s no wonder why so many awesome poets like Santita and Unsub left. I came back because I love Boaz’s poems, and the freedom to use all the benefits this site offers at no charge.
I don’t want to play games again here. I have a career, children and grandchildren. I’ll post what I want, when I want. You and others should understand that many of us are not retired and don’t have time for this place. Please don’t criticize others when you haven’t walked in their shoes.
Sorry Dave, I’ve got my rants too.
Yes, J - I understand this as a rant, but I'm not quite sure where it is coming from. Several commentators seem to have misunderstood my intent here. Perhaps I should have spent my usual week or so polishing and maturing those few lines.....
On any given day several first time poets turn up, present a poem which even on second reading is sometimes obscure. Context, then, is everything. A search of the sidebox, plus the 'About Me' at their Public Profile reveals nothing.
I find this frustrating. Add to this that many will move on without bothering to even read other work and you have the sum total of what motivated me to to pop in a quick verse.
I have not the faintest idea what shoes those people wear - that is my point - so there is no way I can walk in them......
A very intelligent response. Unfortunately I’ve had too many pints at the pub with a bud (wife outa town on business). Reply to ya when sober.
No need to unless you have something else.......
All my explanation with respect to this verse here has been done - either in my responses to other comments on this thread, or directly to you.
But I don't think it's about this particular entry of mine - rather it is about something else.... I feel your reference to 'games' is relevant... So why directed at me?
I do need to share what happened and still is happening on this site. I’m on my lunch break, so I’ll make it brief. I was here for 3 years up till August of last year. This place had turned into a war zone. There was so much time bickering, and, yes I was heavily involved. With my personality, I’m fairly certain I’ll do it again like I am now.
Shit! Not brief enough, I’m getting bird dogged!
Tnen best nowhere to go with that, I think. Just cease.
Agreed.
Agreed .
Thank you, friends.
I’ve seen this before although I guess all we can do is read and comment . I’m not sure why some people simply hardly comment on others work . I’ve been on a site before called cosmofunnel ... started getting comments on my work to then hardly receive any . I did comment on others work.
I don't know where you have seen it before - I did it this morning yrose.
I’ve seen this lack of commenting before .. that’s what I meant .
Within the confines of this short poem, I was not actually alluding to commentary yrose, but rather where these fly-by-nights have a ‘Poems read’ score of zero.
Sometimes we are probably spared commentary where the expression is poor and rational thought is nowhere in evidence.
Ok , I thought it was . My mistake .
There was nothing wrong with my poems on this other site in fact people said they liked my poetry ... I just barely received many comments, at first I did .., then it was hardly any
Good for you yrose. BTW I actually don't comment on your poems very often. This is because in general I don't like Nature Poetry much. It is all too sad, as climate change is going to ruin most of it. While I once watched David Attenborough's nature films enthralled, now I can no longer watch them for the same reason.
Take care.
That’s ok . Maybe I should try writing on something else ... I do write about nature , a lot
I have occasionally wondered myself ..
well articulated sir 🙂
Articulated? Just truckin....Thanks Nev.
I was gonna say well truck you, but then ........................ woof .. you old dog 🙂
I got to say woof woof - I don't never comeback with a single woof ...my tail which can wag furiously, hashas ushushly (coupla wines is great) a stinger attached.....
I shall start calling you scorpion Dave .................................................... 🙂
Sounds like the codename for an infiltrator.....
Reading your comment to d a's post I too am an old timer and thank you for the fun you bring to me.
Andy
You are very welcome, Andy - You both are.
If no one (certain poets) don't comment on our poems, they probably won't have read them.
So we tend to forget about those poets, and not read their poems either.
Don't know where this obsession with comment came from. As I mentioned above, 'Within the confines of this short poem, I was not actually alluding to commentary yrose, but rather where these fly-by-nights have a ‘Poems read’ score of zero'.
For thirty or forty five minutes this rant of a write matches my own frustration with those who post to just show off their work - - - -but these do not last I keep telling myself. Thanks for the smile Dave albeit wry.
They don't, Fay - and that is half the problem....I find myself compelled to click on the new ones on my way up the listings in order to encourage. Now much more ruthless: No context in comments to add to the entry; no 'about me'; no poems read - no encouragement from me - mostly.
Never mind that - thanks for the encouragement I get from you.
Dave don't know how I missed this one I thought I had read all of yours but after reviewing most all of your tonight I found I had missed this one. I too have found this to be true. When I first started writing I thought that my poems were better than they were since then I have found that they were not too good. I thought that it was common curtesy that if someone read your poem you would return the favor. My mother taught me that if you receive a letter you return one. It seems that you stirred up some controversy with some of the comments on this "rant" but I'm on your side on this one. It is only by reading other poems that your own get any better. I recognize that mine are often a bit obtuse, obscure, obsequious or too metaphoric but then I usually write for myself not others. I have been on other sites and they are all the same so I guess it is human nature not just a problem with any site itself. These words needed to be said Dave.
Thanks Soren. This was squarely aimed at nameless, no biography, one entry fly by nights who write lines of totally obscure poetry without context.
You turn up regularly, I know who you are, and if some of your stuff is too obscure for me, well there's always another time, another poem.
PS: If you are only writing for yourself, no need to put it out there.😀
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