Comments on: mary oliver | white geese

By: larrysteve

larrysteve — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:25:55 +0000

It may be that the “soft animal” of Mr. Dempsey’s body has long ago been toughened up, callused, and hardened, to the point where it can’t be reached. That happens, unfortunately. This poem speaks to that part, and if that part no longer exists, than the words indeed are useless. like a key without a lock.

By: norbert blei

norbert blei — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:06:06 +0000

YOU miss the whole point of the dispatch. Who is ‘you’?

By: Mark Routhier

Mark Routhier — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:41:21 +0000

You miss the whole point of poetry, or at least the point of this poem. So you don’t “get” what she’s saying. So you’ve never felt the way she felt when she wrote this. Then say that. You can’t understand how powerful this poem is if you’ve never felt this in the marrow of your bones. I find it hard to believe that you so harshly criticize something you don’t emotionally grasp–and isn’t that what poetry does to/for us?

By: Clementine

Clementine — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:58:08 +0000

It takes an especially accomplished, self-appointed wordsmith to write bullshit masquerading as crap. So, you win Mr. Accomplishment … we’re all willing to let you go on believing you’re oh so much more intelligent than the rest of us boofers, out here in la-la land, trying to enjoy the written word.

By: Lyn Miner

Lyn Miner — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:11:32 +0000

*I like to read the Poetry Dispatch. It’s almost like hanging out in a bar or coffee house, back in the day, yakking about poetry, literature, the state of the world, etc. Fun and interesting stuff. -Lyn Miner*