tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post8242988459114923548..comments2024-01-09T05:39:44.523-08:00Comments on I Hate Poetry: The Buddah Moskowitz Archive: The Naked SnapshotBuddah Moskowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-32640253866824362432012-08-16T04:06:25.489-07:002012-08-16T04:06:25.489-07:00I love these lines...
"I picture a wall map...I love these lines...<br /><br /><br />"I picture a wall map<br />of California<br />with cities up and down<br />the state<br />lighting up<br />where I imagine<br />my stray thoughts<br />and eternal promises<br />have blown"<br /><br />And now who knows, how far our thoughts travel~<br />I enjoyed your poem...<br />It was sweet and sad remembering those unsure step stone days of youth!Ellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06070952447277684613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-19578134614360058182012-08-15T12:25:35.359-07:002012-08-15T12:25:35.359-07:00Thanks - yes, we romantics tend to start early, be...Thanks - yes, we romantics tend to start early, before cynicism has time to grow roots.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-58547271327140052692012-08-15T09:32:48.202-07:002012-08-15T09:32:48.202-07:00Oh, I love the last two lines. I was pouring out l...Oh, I love the last two lines. I was pouring out love poems at that age, too, a scared, skinny teenager.<br />KKay L. Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-2398359033112879412012-08-15T07:44:57.786-07:002012-08-15T07:44:57.786-07:00Thanks! Thanks! Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-27246420958274359672012-08-14T21:07:26.591-07:002012-08-14T21:07:26.591-07:00I loved this poem and the compassion the poet has ...I loved this poem and the compassion the poet has for his younger self. The map image gave me a chuckle too!Barbara @ The Healthy Nuthttp://www.barbarathehealthynut.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-31282301273963730022012-08-14T13:35:54.100-07:002012-08-14T13:35:54.100-07:00Thanks, Mary. Don't be hard on yourself, we a...Thanks, Mary. Don't be hard on yourself, we are our own worst critics, you know.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-18420983658644123682012-08-14T13:35:03.094-07:002012-08-14T13:35:03.094-07:00Thanks, and my poems actually started off as scrip...Thanks, and my poems actually started off as scripts I'd rehearse in case I was ever alone with one of these girls. Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-47264751591013109762012-08-14T13:33:26.236-07:002012-08-14T13:33:26.236-07:00Shame on them indeed! Tell your son to keep at it...Shame on them indeed! Tell your son to keep at it - one of these days one of those poems is going to get him laid! It only took me 21 years of writing! Teaches perseverance and builds character.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-36742598149635512332012-08-14T13:31:43.681-07:002012-08-14T13:31:43.681-07:00Thanks, MZ, that means a lot.Thanks, MZ, that means a lot.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-53583267663516495172012-08-14T13:31:11.335-07:002012-08-14T13:31:11.335-07:00Thanks, but I'm sure some of my earliest writi...Thanks, but I'm sure some of my earliest writing should have been fired out of said canon.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-159342722400297952012-08-14T13:30:33.039-07:002012-08-14T13:30:33.039-07:00Thanks! I love that it ended too!Thanks! I love that it ended too!Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-83262585800258946252012-08-14T13:30:17.156-07:002012-08-14T13:30:17.156-07:00Thanks - not wandering off course is one of my mai...Thanks - not wandering off course is one of my main goals as a writer. Thanks, it's not Browning or Masters (unless you mean Tod Browning and Masters & Johnson), it's Moskowitz!Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-25615100107193196792012-08-14T13:28:50.026-07:002012-08-14T13:28:50.026-07:00You'd cackle - and now I'd take that as a ...You'd cackle - and now I'd take that as a compliment. I wrote poems to girls who I can't even remember now! How can that be?Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-85130960218896240202012-08-14T13:28:01.369-07:002012-08-14T13:28:01.369-07:00Yes, now I find it hard to write longhand! Thanks....Yes, now I find it hard to write longhand! Thanks.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-85772259664384451102012-08-14T13:27:17.324-07:002012-08-14T13:27:17.324-07:00Between 18 and 26 I wanted to be a playwright, a c...Between 18 and 26 I wanted to be a playwright, a comic and a songwriter, so I've plays, jokes, and songs, but precious few poems. And precious is the word! Oy! 10 to 1 is a good ratio of hits - mine were like 100 to 1!Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-15994442117152766252012-08-14T13:25:56.653-07:002012-08-14T13:25:56.653-07:00I couldn't agree more!I couldn't agree more!Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-4676042657646269302012-08-14T13:25:32.409-07:002012-08-14T13:25:32.409-07:00Yes, but kept writing these poems into my 30s! Th...Yes, but kept writing these poems into my 30s! Thanks.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-69072370961110052702012-08-14T13:25:06.101-07:002012-08-14T13:25:06.101-07:00Thanks Kerry - kind of you to say, but I wrote som...Thanks Kerry - kind of you to say, but I wrote some real dreck. Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-32985009661349205602012-08-14T13:24:31.900-07:002012-08-14T13:24:31.900-07:00Because I was so shy. Thanks.Because I was so shy. Thanks.Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-47663830749856532952012-08-14T13:24:05.840-07:002012-08-14T13:24:05.840-07:00Ah, youth! Thanks!Ah, youth! Thanks!Buddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-78239032563012361132012-08-14T13:09:46.471-07:002012-08-14T13:09:46.471-07:00Definitely something I can relate to, some of the ...Definitely something I can relate to, some of the stuff I wrote as a teenager makes me cringe today! Great images in this, really enjoyed this.Mary B. Mansfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03135589216216151585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-19138404978752207842012-08-14T09:20:55.950-07:002012-08-14T09:20:55.950-07:00Wow! Emotional and heart-wrenching piece! This i...Wow! Emotional and heart-wrenching piece! This is how it begins though, does it not? Pouring our hearts onto the blank page, growing, developing, until we are mature. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-64570603816020718392012-08-14T07:48:10.183-07:002012-08-14T07:48:10.183-07:00unceremoniously
crumpled and dropped
and "my...unceremoniously<br />crumpled and dropped<br /><br />and "my stray thoughts<br />and eternal promises"<br /> <br />surely not! And if so, shame on them. But then again, we are talking teenagers. I'm sure, all these years later, things would be different. My oldest son has written a number of love poems, too, to girls he has liked. :)Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-36392739642386570502012-08-14T06:15:48.562-07:002012-08-14T06:15:48.562-07:00This is beautiful and moving, Mosk.This is beautiful and moving, Mosk.Maude Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669688074743095866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12624992.post-63931741583832912292012-08-13T23:25:35.888-07:002012-08-13T23:25:35.888-07:00The hindsight of adulthood is maybe a touch cruel ...The hindsight of adulthood is maybe a touch cruel to the flowering of youthful yearning. Innocence and sophistication each have their place in the canon of your work!vivinfrancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07388722600118753457noreply@blogger.com