tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post8566722702680441548..comments2023-11-05T05:59:33.041-05:00Comments on Sara McClung: Sucky PoetrySara {Rhapsody and Chaos}http://www.blogger.com/profile/09824996048264979275noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-64910952072354792752010-01-15T09:32:59.017-05:002010-01-15T09:32:59.017-05:00Yay, I'm glad you liked the award! And it'...Yay, I'm glad you liked the award! And it's nice to find out we're kindred spirits in cheese :)Diana Pazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04368186068872293410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-7737715692608100432010-01-14T23:56:53.214-05:002010-01-14T23:56:53.214-05:00I'm not even brave enough to dig out the poetr...I'm not even brave enough to dig out the poetry I wrote in high school. *shudders*Anissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773384041569563564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-77206779841844418902010-01-14T21:52:17.744-05:002010-01-14T21:52:17.744-05:00You are so brave!! I'm not a poet by any stret...You are so brave!! I'm not a poet by any stretch, but I do enjoy reading poetry. I have to admit yours made me smile, and chuckle a little too! Thanks for posting!!Diana Pazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04368186068872293410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-75456195134890380402010-01-14T21:39:53.563-05:002010-01-14T21:39:53.563-05:00I like the "sadder than the death of a millio...I like the "sadder than the death of a million butterflies" bit. :)<br /><br />Now I'm all veklempt (sp?)...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-41235651364892234892010-01-14T21:14:03.466-05:002010-01-14T21:14:03.466-05:00Great stuff! I love teaching poetry at school. The...Great stuff! I love teaching poetry at school. The kids love it too, especially when they're about 13 or so. Lots of great angst :)<br /><br />I burned everything I'd ever written in a bonfire one summer. Probably a good thing!Jemi Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214408467456320167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-16105488463806758302010-01-14T21:03:05.604-05:002010-01-14T21:03:05.604-05:00I mean this in the most loving way possible, but t...I mean this in the most loving way possible, but those poems made me laugh SO hard. Now I'm actually tempted to dig out my best (worst) gem from middle school (maybe the murder poem!) and send it to you. Via e-mail of course, because I have a very low shame threshold ;-)Alexandrahttp://lazy-iris.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-35917425315456973042010-01-14T20:51:56.618-05:002010-01-14T20:51:56.618-05:00I may not know much, but I thought "Nonsense&...I may not know much, but I thought "Nonsense" WAS very clever. I wish I'd kept my kid stuff but I'm pretty sure I junked it with my last marriage.Denniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06605273703318733844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-49005783938533571042010-01-14T19:22:11.455-05:002010-01-14T19:22:11.455-05:00I have a present for you at my blog
http://frankie...I have a present for you at my blog<br />http://frankiediane.blogspot.com/2010/01/vlog-3-and-happy-awards.htmlFrankie Diane Mallishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06066659801542129040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-82934225617577755502010-01-14T14:26:54.625-05:002010-01-14T14:26:54.625-05:00The nursery rhyme was actually pretty witty and go...The nursery rhyme was actually pretty witty and good!<br /><br /> I like it. And yeah, going through old poetry/writing for me is a mixture between embarrassment and amusement.<br /><br />OOH OOH and while I was writing this comment, SUPERCHICK came on. I dig the Christian Rock bands, I just bought my 14 year old niece their latest CD.Voidwalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06688751100806767843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-38299461695904226352010-01-14T13:55:25.874-05:002010-01-14T13:55:25.874-05:00sadder than the deaths of one million butterflies-...sadder than the deaths of one million butterflies- I really like that line. Your poems were not bad! I could picture a very promising writer in those words :)V. Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00406440235719919992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-12473256999384868042010-01-14T13:51:10.718-05:002010-01-14T13:51:10.718-05:00The murders of one million people, oh my! I loved ...The murders of one million people, oh my! I loved both of your poems! Seriously. The nonsense one was fun! I've never been able to write rhyming poems that didn't seem to be so obvious in their rhyme. But that one has depth and you almost don't notice the rhyme. I think it's a cool concept!Valerie Kemphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01664186778812993543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-38437293394486935542010-01-14T13:33:45.536-05:002010-01-14T13:33:45.536-05:00The Muffin Man cometh! Oh these are so cute and fu...The Muffin Man cometh! Oh these are so cute and funny and perfectly attuned to childhood. But that metaphor for life is going to stick with me a long time. ;)Tricia J. O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05993110400088806252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-12012024741197599182010-01-14T13:33:29.937-05:002010-01-14T13:33:29.937-05:00Awww hehe, definitely brave of you to post these! ...Awww hehe, definitely brave of you to post these! And they're really not so bad at all!!Frankie Diane Mallishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06066659801542129040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-6970509283470166572010-01-14T13:29:51.186-05:002010-01-14T13:29:51.186-05:00I've never written poetry - thank God - but wh...I've never written poetry - thank God - but when I was in middle school I wrote an EPIC NOVEL about a thinly-veiled adult version of myself who was an actress on Broadway and the object of adoration of her dashing co-star. Honest to God, it was, like, two hundred pages long. Single-spaced. I am both heartbroken and RELIEVED BEYOND MEASURE that it was lost in a hard-drive failure when I was in high school. <br /><br />My short stories are a different matter, because I was an adolescent in the internet age, so they're still out there. On the internet. Where people can still read them. Luckily there's only one person in the world who can connect my identity then to my actual person, and she'll never give me up because I've got just as much dirt on her.<br /><br />Whenever I think about those stories, it always makes me wonder how long it will take for me to look back on what I'm writing now and roll my eyes at how terrible I was. <br /><br />"Hate is sadder than the deaths of one million butterflies" is my new favourite saying!Sneakyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05543393914253173740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-56215324854721918742010-01-14T13:14:05.582-05:002010-01-14T13:14:05.582-05:00Sara, I actually love the attempt to mix up folk s...Sara, I actually love the attempt to mix up folk songs with Mother Goose. Found poetry, baby. Have you read much Annie Dillard? She published a whole volume called _Mornings Like This: Found Poems_.Laurel Garverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03657218435228802535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-22000531156496857702010-01-14T12:45:47.322-05:002010-01-14T12:45:47.322-05:00Those sound a lot like the poetry my high school s...Those sound a lot like the poetry my high school students write. The second one brought tears of laughter to my eyes. Way to go, Sara - you are so brave! LOL! :-)Shannon O'Donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17299313309059235876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-49879636955071377622010-01-14T11:45:11.114-05:002010-01-14T11:45:11.114-05:00Oh Sara....you would have been like the coolest fr...Oh Sara....you would have been like the coolest friend to have in school. I was the only one I knew that wrote such deep, deep, um, metaphors for life. and the poetry, oh love...what is so wrong with "Hate is sad"? Really. I mean,it is sad, right? Seems to me a bit existentialist if you think about it. I mean, think really, really hard.<br /><br />But I must say, some of those concepts were really cool. Like Mage's Isle? How cool is that? I say give it another spin. It might turn into something ;) <br /><br />Thanks for sharing your poetry with us. It's been enlightening. Hate is sad...dude, I'll never forget that. (and in all seriousness, I can totally see how poignant that would be for a young girl to say).Carolina M. Valdez Schneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11589934533051907801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-6839848870198987152010-01-14T11:15:56.654-05:002010-01-14T11:15:56.654-05:00Christopher, LOL. Thanks
Shannon, for one thing a...Christopher, LOL. Thanks<br /><br />Shannon, for one thing at least YOUR poems were original and you didn't try to pass off random lines from nursery rhymes as poetry. <br />For another, I didn't think it through, obviously. But I believe what you just suggested makes you an instigator, my dear...Sara {Rhapsody and Chaos}https://www.blogger.com/profile/09824996048264979275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-16129190686632261382010-01-14T10:33:32.557-05:002010-01-14T10:33:32.557-05:00Okay, first of all, your poems were NOTHING on the...Okay, first of all, your poems were NOTHING on the horror of mine. I mean, I'll admit, the "hate is sadder than the death of a million butterflies" made me giggle--but come on! I used the word 'daddio'!!!!!<br /><br />And wow did you go above and beyond with the Sara Shame. Do you have ANY idea what's going to happen when Frankie sees this? She's GOING to make you post one of these! (and personally I vote for 6th grade horror--ooo, or Jocelyn's choice!) Part of me is scared for you, but the other part hopes I get to read them!<br /><br />Thank you SO much for participating. You did an awesome job and definitely gave me my laugh to start the day!Shannon Messengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08003607156860716462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662203671583091505.post-14474132742046944162010-01-14T10:31:35.501-05:002010-01-14T10:31:35.501-05:00This made me smile more than a million setting sun...This made me smile more than a million setting suns.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17045294003088106262noreply@blogger.com