[Report This]Date: 07/14/2007 11:45 pm Title: Go-Getter
Very cool poem. Just wanted to let you know I featured you on my new Reader's blog, http://abunchofwordz.wordpress.com/.
Author's Response: Thanks. I wrote 10 HBP-poems almost as soon as it came out and I still have several fragments of verse about minor characters that I had intended to combine into extra poems but never got around to it.
[Report This]Date: 04/20/2007 08:42 pm Title: Repetitive
Wow. Excellent work. My favorite couplet was : "Babes are born fisted, to have and to hold,
But dead hands lie open; they’ve no need for gold."
Excellent stuff!
Author's Response: Thanks. It's not an original thought (I think it's mentioned in the talmud, ergo it's thousands of years old), but a very telling one. There's one more verse in this series, "Go-getter Ginny", which I'll post here soon, plus lots of little fragments that I may one day join and polish.
[Report This]Date: 06/03/2006 07:49 pm Title: Half-hearted
I must have missed this chapter when you first posted it. It's really well done -- naturally. "The life you saved is the life you must take" really hits the nail on the head.
Author's Response: Snape has been bottle-necked into a no-win position by the end of HBP. There was no possible way he could have saved Dumbledore on the tower, unless (as Whitehound has suggested) we've all been tricked and he faked Dumbledore's death with a spoken unmeant Avada Kedavra while simultaneously casting a Mobilicorpus or Expelliarmus (or similar) to move Dumbledore off the Tower. (She thinks that if Dumbledore drank a Draught of Living Death or in some other way entered a quasi-death state, that the Vow could be fulfilled without actual death taking place.) I've written ten full HBP poems and I have fragments of minor character couplets and quatrains. Maybe I'll eventually combine the latter into poems for different categories of minor players, eg Death Eaters in one, Order members in another, etc.
[Report This]Date: 05/22/2006 08:09 am Title: Half-hearted
These are great. I don't see much good poetry on these sites, but I enjoyed these very much.
Author's Response: Thanks. There are ten poems in the series (plus some unfinished scraps of verse for minor characters) and eventually all ten will be posted here.
[Report This]Date: 12/23/2005 08:46 am Title: Dumb
That is very good, I must say. Very well and your rhyming was good. Some poets make the stupidest rhyme but yours make sense. The poem itself was brilliant. Good job!
Author's Response: There's plenty more to come. I've written ten poems in this series and also have several fragments for minor characters that I might one day combine.
[Report This]Date: 12/06/2005 12:29 am Title: Hokey
All I can say is "Bravo" for all three of these. I know how hard this is to write, and you have my bow of respect for both the effort and the outocme. My favorite was "Hasty". I especially liked the last line, "Sometimes emotions must lose to obedience, To win this war you must learn from experience.", because I see that as Harry's major problem, that for him, what he feels and believes is the true measure of things. You managed, depsite the burden of verse, to lay bare the central conflicts and motivation of each of these three. Kudos.
Author's Response: Thanks. There are another seven to come. I hope you'll enjoy them equally. I think my favourite is repetitive Riddle but you'll have to wait for it (Unless you go looking at ffnet). Ron's the next one up.
[Report This]Date: 11/23/2005 11:03 am Title: Hasty
Another wonderful poem, duj! Can't wait to see the other seven...
Author's Response: Hokey Hermione, Wanton Won-Won, Weasley twins -what?, Sluggish Slughorn, Delinquent Draco, Half-hearted Half-Blood Prince, Repetitive Riddle and Go-getter Ginny.
[Report This]Date: 11/19/2005 02:22 pm Title: Dumb
Great poem! I liked how you rhymed it all but still told the story about Dumbledore's demise.
Author's Response: There are another 9 poems to come, just about all the main characters in HBP get a look-in.