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I've never eaten elk but Id give it a try. (Does it taste just like chicken?)

Does age difference matter when it comes to dating?

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Would you tell your boss he's a twat to his face?

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Hmmmm what IS on my mind?

1) Andrew

2) A dream I had two days ago

3) Andrew

4) A story I'm gonna start up

5) Andrew

6) I work tomorrow as a cashier for the first time at Walmart. Start at 14:00.

Oh, and did I mention Andrew? ^.^

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I don't know if this is where I should post this question, but it's all about poetry, and (at first) that was all I was going to ask about. Apparently, I'm gonna include Flash in it as well.

Help me out?

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Roses are red,
Violets are magenta
I wish I could find
The poems I sent 'er

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Having no idea what either the Celtic Thunder or the Tenors are...(I am guessing sports teams) I would choose the Celtic Thunder on a purely cool-name basis.

Room temperature fruit, or refrigerated fruit?

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Poem

noun: poem; plural noun: poems

a piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery.

That's the jist of what all the popular dictionaries say. Nothing wrong with their definition, except that poetry is so much more than that.

A poem isn't something you can describe, not in intellectual terms anyway. It's a form of art, so like any other art-form it's an expression of what resides deep inside the artist. Any poem that's written using only your mind isn't really a poem, is it? A poem is an expression of what lives in your soul, in a place that even you won't understand at times.

I remember my high school English teacher once reading a poem in class and one of the students asked why we have to read poetry - it was an incredibly boring poem. She was quiet for a while, then she smiled and replied, "We don't. Poems read us." I'm not sure any of us really understood what she meant, but I never forgot what she said. Over the years my mind has drifted back to a lot of things she taught me, so I've had time to think about it. I think that I finally understand. It explains why a dozen people can read the same poem and each find a different meaning, some even finding hidden messages that the poet wasn't even consciously aware of while writing it.

I think that many of us have been conditioned to believe that a poem should read like the ones we were taught at school - flowery, puzzling and deep. And through all of that it should also make sense. That's the problem right there, we were taught to study poems and to somehow - despite what we take from it - reach the 'right' conclusion. There was a 'correct' -prescribed - interpretation of each poem and then there was the interpretation that would earn you an easy F. It didn't matter what we thought or felt while reading, so most of us grew to hate poetry. Poetry became just one more useless thing to suffer through at school.

And as usual, I digress... in answer to your question, Andrew - yes, most of your poems are rather pointless, but that does not necessarily make them bad poems. On the contrary, I rather enjoy well-written pointless poetry, it's like a breath of fresh air for the brain and the soul. It's not over-thought or too hard to understand. They make me smile, even when I'm not in the mood to smile. I think of your poetry as a walk on the light side, except for when you're having a rant, but even those are well-written. I remember when you first arrived here and started posting your 'Lady Vodka' poems, I thought, "Hmm... how much can one say about Vodka? He'll run dry soon enough." I was wrong, the poems kept coming and strangely, each of them were interesting and unique. The world needs more poets like you.

Now if you truly want to contemplate what pointless poetry is all about, have a look at Aram Saroyan's poem, 'Lighght'. It's been estimated to be the most expensive word in history. Go figure... I wonder how long it took him to write that one.

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Under pressure (as Mr Mercury would say it)

An ironing board and a wave pool...

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I like brains.

Zombie

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What is on my mind .....hmmm I do believe that if I could just sleep until I wanna wake up and not wake up just because of my alarm clock, ...I do believe my mornings could be much more cheerful lol