Comments for Museum of rain

Comment on Process Of Elimination by nml

nml — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:06:16 +0000

I love this. So much.

Comment on Why I Love Prison Stories by Michael

Michael — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:31:27 +0000

hi Gemma. Nice work. I love the your images in this one. Also the rhymes in the next one. I took your advice and set up my own poetry blog at michaelkling.wordpress.com. Some pieces have a couple versions, so you check it out and say which you prefer.

Comment on About by nicki ley

nicki ley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:37:48 +0000

Yo, Gemma!

Have you been writing any? I have been checking in frequently… but it is still always nice to go back through all of the others. Life. Love. Peace.

nicki ley

Comment on Other Uses by Tony Fusco

Tony Fusco — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:01:57 +0000

This is funny and entertaining. I usually don’t like poems about writing poetry, it is like “how boring are the lives of poets that they have nothing to write about but the writing process”. But this is funny. I like the repeating line My professor hates my poetry. It is like the villanelle but without the strait jacket of the form, which in itself in the subject matter is ironic and adds so much.

Some lines are inspired:

I’d add more, with varied uses
My trains all engines, no cabooses.
and
I’d add more, with varied uses
My trains all engines, no cabooses.

I’ve seen a lot of cute poems, but few this clever and playful with words.

Comment on Why I Love Prison Stories by Nurry

Nurry — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:09:56 +0000

Hi, I am a friend of Doug’s from 6S…..
Enjoyed your poetry…brought back memories of the time I worked for the Parole Services!

Comment on All Purpose Survival by Shahid

Shahid — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:55:35 +0000

First blog I read after wakeup from sleep today!

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Are you tension? panic?

Comment on Ambition by poseidonsmuse

poseidonsmuse — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:46:01 +0000

Clever and brilliant. I absolutely loved this poem. Thank you.

Comment on First Person Singularity by Olivar's Art

Olivar's Art — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:58:50 +0000

I enjoyed the individualness of each of our singularities. The first line shakes an alone-ness that is neither wanted nor unwanted; it simply exists.

Comment on Two Feete In The Grave by Gemma

Gemma — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:50:29 +0000

Dear Mary,

Thank you. Yes I live on Weatherly Trail which is north of Route 80 and south of lake Quonnipaug. My family has lived here for 22 years. ( I was born and grew up in Clinton, moved to Indian Neck for first 11 years of marriage)

Did you find out about my site from Martha Battles?

I think your family cemetery is quite marvelous! I like to hike the Guilford Trail system and came upon it rather by accident.

I have been interested in Cemeteries from ages ago when I was practice teaching, and my host teacher had dozens of CT gravestone epitaphs in the form of gravestone rubbings taped on the walls of his classroom.

I congratulate you for preserving your family history with such care, and glad you were amused by the poem, which I call ALMOST a “found poem” in that it practically was written when I came upon it.

You may reply if you wish at my regular e-mail address: gemop@comcast.net.

Comment on Two Feete In The Grave by Mary Foote Rounsavall

Mary Foote Rounsavall — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:47:38 +0000

Hello, Gemma – how lovely!!! Do you live in Guilford Ct? How do you know about Andrew Ward’s grave inscription?? I am the guardian of the cemetery in which he lies, in Guilford – although I live far away from there – and all my family is there (in the Ward/Foote cemetery), brothers, parents, etc…how nice to find this! It certainly is an interesting set of gravestones….and have caused many a smile over many years. Hope to hear from you-

Yours,
Mary Foote Rounsavall