Limericks / Limeracrostihaikinorengaku

I agree with you on syllable count… BUT Evath will tell you that METER is more important than syllables… so the METER is right on “kin to my hokku”. Of course next she will accuse me of waffling when it is convenient. LOL Yeah, “some few” I thought about after I submitted and decided not to do a version 2 just to change that one word. Robert Burns eh? LOL. Well, I couldn’t think of what to do about “ashes” to go with the “ring around the rosey” thing that started with “N”. Thanks for reading and for your thoughts. Definitely appreciated. This was a piece I struggled with to try to get it as right as I could.

Lol ah, I didnt know you could “tweek” the rules a bit. Excellent…heheh. i will remember that=P

all righty then.

;-)
I do like your cat, tho!!!
My comment was merely that if I have to read a glossary before tackling the piece, then it is too much for me (not in general, but now, have been burning the midnight oil finishing a book translation – deadline, deadline, deadline!!!) as I’ve had little sleep.
I could say something trite here, but instead I’ll say that I look forward to seeing other works!
E~

Well, I can’t win for losing I guess. I posted other works here that were poems having to do with poems. People told me that they, “didn’t want to have to Google all of the terms to ‘get’ the message”. So I made a glossary. Now I am being told that reading the glossary beforehand is too much to expect.

I guess I already knew that this would only reach a select audience. I was trying to accommodate those readers who fell outside of that select group (just in case they happened to pop in). I’m trying to push a few different envelopes with my writing here of late, and not everyone gets / understands / likes /appreciates it.

I am not trying to be trite here either, (though the Dostoevsky comment tempted me)  but I can’t help metaphorically rolling my eyes at times. Basically it is not directed at you specifically, but I am still thinking, “well… you just can’t please everyone.”

There’s not much I can do for the people who don’t get this, I’m afraid. I don’t mean that as a rip or a dig. A “select group” of the writers I have been talking to here lately are writing similar things. You may run into a few of them.

So, thanks for reading and your comments. No worries or hard feelings.

Scottie,
You made me laugh. I remember the story of the guy and his son, and their donkey. No one rides, son rides, father rides, finally they carry the f’ing beast.  No matter what they do, they can’t please everyone.  Hahahaha.
So, I guess maybe you should now write an acrostic haiku tanka “nam-yo-ho-renga-kyo” (if you don’t mind
my bastardization of the term ;-))
about the glossary… ;-)
Just keep at it and when I get to you again in the queue, I’ll try a little harder.
To be completely honest with you… I prefer to have the glossary at-hand. I simply was tired and so I didn’t get much of what you were trying to do with your art, because it was, on that day – of all days, not a “lite” read ;-)
Anyway, keep living and creating art for yourself.
Everyone is either a comedian or a critic
(and you can’t please ‘em all.)
but not everyone has a brain!!!!
(and not everyone who says they are a poet knows the first thing about poetic criticism, let alone poetic self-expression… form… meter… rhyme, imagery, etc.)
“Hey, just slap a few words that rhyme together, and voila! POETRY – even if it sucks, even if it goes nowhere – leading the reader on a wild goose chase, even if it makes no sense to anyone but you, even if it is ‘all sound and fury, signifying nothing.’”
heheheheh
best of luck
Evangeline

Because I am starting to like you, I will let you get away with the “Scottie”. ;p

LOL you will learn to love her, dont worry. I have to agree that glossary is much appreciated and VERY necessary. I have written two peices that use many Gaelic terms and had to write glossaries for them as well. I liked having the glossary, but I still had to think REALLY hard=P

ScottieBaby..
Brynn is my newest and greatest fan…
well, maybe Jaiku is… or Gonsaku.
But she’s my first newest greatest female fan ;-P

I’m not livid, I’m ScottBJohnson! Who’s this “Livid” guy? I am seeing how many words I can shove at once into this pun gun and shoot out all at the same time. This time it came out “limer”. Wait… here’s a part of a word over here… “acrosti”... hmmm. Thanks for giving this a 2nd chance…