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Craig Cornish
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Graduation Day

Blog Posted by Craig Cornish: 4/1/2023 2:36:00 PM

I was obviously not enamoured by almost all your writes. The only one that truly caught my attention was "Let Roots Bloom High" because it was the only one that SHOWED...the rest, quite honestly were simply telling - even 2nd place which at least ventured to Romans and togas, but then slipped back to telling------a graduation is much more a commencement (a beginning) than an ending and the poem Let Roots Bloom High SHOWED-----I do not care if my contests fill up every two days, if you want trophies for nothing enter them in the contests where everybody wins, if that is how your ego is filled....if you want true reward step out of your comfort zone and truly create-----any one can mail me! BTW, my next contest will be "I Died"---not going to hold your hand with this...take it outside the box/within/around/etc etc---totally obscure yet connected like jazz improvisation to a melody.....wait, I'm holding hands too much!



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Date: 4/2/2023 9:12:00 AM
Craig, I thought writing about graduation was nearly impossible to do in any way other than narrative or prose . You need to choose more surreal topics if you want free verse. there is sure no way I could discuss my graduation in the free verse form. I saw a super good one somebody had written and truly believed it would make your list. Sometimes I feel you are asking for the impossible with most of us. Anyway. Congrats to the two winners.
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Craig Cornish
Date: 4/3/2023 4:59:00 AM
Chuckles...got ya beat, I'm always confused!
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 4/2/2023 9:11:00 PM
Now I am really confused about writing I Died haha
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Craig Cornish
Date: 4/2/2023 7:09:00 PM
Funny, in a not funny way, that the words to Por Una Cabeza translate to what would be a terrible poem yet the mood lives on--too often our assumptions lead us to safety and not the road less taken. You alluded to emotion...emotion is that secret "what if" more than what was--way too many things in life fall short of expectations where we set ourselves up to be disappointed -- address that in the sonnet about "I Died", would you regret whatever or celebrate whatever--what are whatevers. To write about that without saying what has been said a thousand times and trite tells us nothing new--you're too good to let that happen. BTW, the words "I wish" should not be anywhere in the sonnet because they're the quicksand of lazy thought and way too predictable.
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 4/2/2023 5:40:00 PM
actually, a weird metaphor just kind of came to me on graduation. Wish I had thought of it earlier
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 4/2/2023 3:39:00 PM
Sorry if I got that wrong. I understand what you want. However, you seem so enamored with free verse it's hard to imagine you picking any other poetry type unless you state otherwise. And I hope I don't sound like sour grapes about losing. I honestly felt my chance to win was low after seeing some of the other poems I read. I feel bad for a few of the ones I read that were honestly really nice poems much better than my own. I think some of my own problem with contests in general has to do with theme. Certain themes just can't bring creativity out of me. I sure love it when contests can do it for me. Constance and some other judges provide a variety of themes, which I find helpful. Anyway, your two winners ARE really good, especially that first one!
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Craig Cornish
Date: 4/2/2023 12:12:00 PM
A big BTW here - where in the contest rules did I require free verse? You can be creative any way you'd like to dance - though I prefer tangos? Por Una Cabeza! Minuets bore me.
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 4/2/2023 11:50:00 AM
A person cannot be something they are not. Even my best attempt at free verse would probably not measure up to your standards. I do have such verse, rare though it may be. An owl cannot change magically into a squirrel. The mind of one does not have the capacity to do what the other can do. Perhaps an imitation at best. For example, for me to write the way my favorite free writers do and then do it consistently would be a near impossibility. And for those who cannot write in my style, the same applies. I won't list my favorite free verse poets, but there are not many, and what they do is very difficult for the average Joe
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Craig Cornish
Date: 4/2/2023 10:33:00 AM
Therein lies your consternation - yes, viewed from a static viewpoint, yet if you free yourself from those concrete restrictions that you have created for yourself you will see that the visions go far beyond specifics and onto a parallel plane that exposes emotions and analogies/metaphors that can be exposed in any form. My next contest will challenge that but will be in strict form.
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 4/2/2023 9:14:00 AM
I did not care about graduation from high school at all, so where there are on real emotions, there can be no real poetry

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