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Offline soleil

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A song of Alzheimers???
« on: August 14, 2010, 06:17:45 PM »
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2010, 06:48:49 PM »
To borrow Franks words....Oh my
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2010, 07:08:18 PM »
Quote from: soleil on August 14, 2010, 06:17:45 PM

All locked threads. All due to awful poetry. Take a look.


That poem will be worse soon   :-)
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2010, 07:12:56 PM »
Quote from: miskie on August 14, 2010, 07:08:18 PM
That poem will be worse soon   :-)


lol!! I don't know about worse. Probably better. It'd be hard to make it worse.
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2010, 07:23:40 PM »
Quote from: soleil on August 14, 2010, 07:12:56 PM

lol!! I don't know about worse. Probably better. It'd be hard to make it worse.

My dear soleil....

Don't challenge me. I can make it soooo much worse   :tongue:
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2010, 07:36:16 PM »
Anyone know what this is about?

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16. I had the same concern as Prisoner_Number_Six
   
I have seen the effects more than once and it is so frightening. Your reply to Prisoner_Number_Six was a relief.

So much introspection today. Starting with Stephanies coming out. Other stuff. This poem. A very thought-inducing day.

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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2010, 07:37:24 PM »
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2010, 07:40:12 PM »
Quote from: BEG on August 14, 2010, 07:36:16 PM
Anyone know what this is about?

Some Progressive talk show host named Stephanie Miller came out as a lesbian, for some reason the DU views it as a cause for celebration.
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2010, 07:58:40 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on August 14, 2010, 07:37:24 PM
As usual, poetry stinks IMO, but a total over-reaction by some posters and moderators.

Is there anything that doesn't offend them ?

Yes the poem is gawd-awful but CP did try to capture what she imagines is inside of an angry Alzheimer's patient's mind .

She took some artistic license, and I can't fault CP for that. But I can and will fault her for her total failure of a poem.
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2010, 08:04:47 PM »
Quote from: miskie on August 14, 2010, 07:58:40 PM
Is there anything that doesn't offend them ?

Yes the poem is gawd-awful but CP did try to capture what she imagines is inside of an angry Alzheimer's patient's mind .

She took some artistic license, and I can't fault CP for that. But I can and will fault her for her total failure of a poem.

I don't think it's so much the poem, I think it's an accumulation of things, they're fighting like crazy over there, the pro-Obama and anti-Obama people, people are being pizza'd like crazy, and some are feeling like they have to suppress their feelings, add to that the mid-terms not looking good for the Democrats.........excuse me a second............. :lmao: .............OK, back to the subject now, and the DU literally looks like it's boiling over.
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2010, 08:06:56 PM »
Looks like a typical Saturday night at the DUmp Lounge. :evillaugh:

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9. I am not "snarking".  I sincerely think it is insulting to patients of Alzheimer's and their loved ones to play a game of poetic make-believe with the disease.

It strikes me as a jejune attempt to be 'deep' and to get easy praise that is unearned.

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42. If it was attempting to express empathy
   
It failed.

It seemed more like a paint-by-numbers laundry list of fragmented ideas - "this is what I imagine Alzheimer's to be like". :shrug:

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9. ZOMG I CRITICIZED TEH POETRY
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2010, 08:17:27 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on August 14, 2010, 07:37:24 PM
As usual, poetry stinks IMO, but a total over-reaction by some posters and moderators.

I haven't known anyone close who has had this disease, so I really can only have an opinion about the horrible poetry. I do find it odd that she'd pick that as a topic though, having no personal experience with it. Maybe she should write a poem about writing bad poems. Or write a poem about selfishness. She certainly has knowledge about those things.
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2010, 08:51:01 PM »
Quote from: soleil on August 14, 2010, 08:17:27 PM
I haven't known anyone close who has had this disease, so I really can only have an opinion about the horrible poetry. I do find it odd that she'd pick that as a topic though, having no personal experience with it. Maybe she should write a poem about writing bad poems. Or write a poem about selfishness. She certainly has knowledge about those things.


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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2010, 03:47:24 AM »
Quote from: soleil on August 14, 2010, 08:17:27 PM
I haven't known anyone close who has had this disease, so I really can only have an opinion about the horrible poetry. I do find it odd that she'd pick that as a topic though, having no personal experience with it. Maybe she should write a poem about writing bad poems. Or write a poem about selfishness. She certainly has knowledge about those things.

So far all the elders on my Fathers side are taking the Alzheimer train out. I get to look forward to it myself if I go the ripe old age route. That being said I expected to open this thread to find some speshul DUmmie lyrics to an old classic song.  :hyper:
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2010, 08:33:32 AM »
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A song of Alzheimer's

Would that they forget the words.
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2010, 11:01:58 AM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on August 15, 2010, 08:33:32 AM
Would that they forget the words.

That's exactly what I was expecting:

La La something something something, My friend
Do Dah Do something something wee ahh
My something My something My something Ahhh ahhh
ah dah My Friend

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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2010, 12:26:15 PM »
Must she always end her poems with one word?

And she has awkward phrasing, even for poetry.

The title is not good, either.

Just trying to be objective here.

I wonder if she will accept constructive criticism and suggestions from her professors.

And by now, she has to know that her poetry is a lightning rod for dissent over there.  To continue posting it makes me wonder what are her true intentions.
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Re: A song of Alzheimers???
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2010, 12:51:54 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on August 14, 2010, 08:04:47 PM
I don't think it's so much the poem, I think it's an accumulation of things, they're fighting like crazy over there, the pro-Obama and anti-Obama people, people are being pizza'd like crazy, and some are feeling like they have to suppress their feelings, add to that the mid-terms not looking good for the Democrats.........excuse me a second............. :lmao: .............OK, back to the subject now, and the DU literally looks like it's boiling over.


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