The Hits of the Graves yr. 2

[pseud]

It just dawned on me that we haven't done one of these this year. I enjoyed reading up on what others thought was the best of the site, often I miss things.

Quoting Keith's version of last year's thread:

OK.

Reply to this post with your favorite poems (or prose) from the esteemed poetsgraves poets (in the past year - say, since January 06).

This can be a top ten format if you like, or a top one...however you wish it. A few notes:

1. This is not a competition
2. Nor is it a popularity contest
3. Neither should it indicate any sort of bias beyond preference based on the quality of the poem.
4. Lastly, include in your list a maximum of one of your own posts: this is not about drawing attention to yourself.

This should be fun.

[pseud]

Here are my top ten, anyway:

1. Fresh Paint by barrie

2. John Cageby dillingworth

3. Disappointment by that girl

4. The Pit Brow Lass by Minstrel

5. Cloud Watching by camus

6. Dead Dogs and Damselflies by barrie

7. Russian Dolls by lemur

8. Go Mountain Biking by cameron

9. Days by Keith

10. Howl by Wabznasm

[camus]

ooooooowwwwwwww nice one Pseud, list time!

I'll be back though, I'm utterly pissed.

[juliadebeauvoir]

1. Dead Dogs and Damselflies by Barrie

2. An Audience With My Mother by David

3. A year among vines by Absolon's Sword

4. Silent Sands by Camus

5. 40 by David

I am sure there are more. Must come back and look again.

Cheers,
Kimberly

[camus]

Well here are some of mine, will probably be a top 20 as I'm only up to August 2006.

1. Without Glasses by Pseud
2. The Crowmarsh Village Store by ccvulture
3. From the Freezer by Cameron
4. A year among vines by Absolon's Sword
5. What friends are for by KJ
6. Tuning Worms by Barrie
7. An audience with my mother by David
8. Fresh Paint by Barrie
9. The Pit Brow Lass by Minstrel
10. The Giraffe, Being Only One by ennui
11. Lucky at Cards by twoleftfeet
12. Ask The Obvious by kozmikdave
13. Underpass by Saul
14. Freaks (a campfire sonnet) by Jester
15. Part time gardener by Absolon's Sword

Loads I've missed, me eyes are tired.

[Arcadian]

At The Funeral That I Missed - emuse


Go Mountain Biking - cameron


The Charcoal Garden - emuse


Hiawatha's Big Night Out - cameron


This Be the Verse - cameron


Questions for the Ghost of Chuang-Tzu - cameron


Siesta - cameron


At the Sandringham Country Show - cameron


Autobiography - cameron


Gemini Twins - cameron


I feel you just can't go past the man 'himself' for his tremendous, tireless work in setting up Poets Graves - so he takes full honors: there are a lot of good quality posts, of course. His recognition in Wikipedia and British National Library for his website, was a powerful motivating factor in my selections - just where would we be be without him ?

[cameron]

Arco,

It's a shame that you spoil a serious thread with sarcasm.

Cheers
Cam

PS you seem to have many issues relating to me and the way I run the site. I'm not entirely sure why you choose to stick around if I'm such a tyrant? After all there are many other poetry forums out there.

You might want to start a new thread in "Discussion" so that you can vent your feelings properly rather than spoiling other threads with various accusations - as you have done in the past. Say what you think, and then either stay and contribute in a normal way or find another site which better suits your needs.

[camus]

just where would we be be without him ?

Well I for one would be without a forum as I'd probably be thrown off most others!

[David]

I started off by making a shortlist of all the poems I have really quite liked over the last year or so. Unfortunately, it was a shortlist of 93. It would have been longer, but I was getting tired. Right.

Apart from demonstrating that there has been some seriously good stuff posted here, this was just silly. So I got brutal, and knocked it down to 10.

Besides seriously regretting a load that didn't quite make the final cut, I also established a completely arbitrary limit of one poem per poet. (Had I not done so, and let my list stretch to 20 or so, Keith and Kris would have been the Beatles and the Stones in my personal hit parade.)

Anyway, here's my Top 10. In date order only.

1. In Memory of Steve - juliadebeauvoir

2. Shone Like the Sun - twoleftfeet

3. Playing Indian - pseud

4. Disappointment - thatgirl (whatever happened to thatgirl?)

5. Fancuro - Minstrel

6. Everyday things - ccvulture

7. Ilyusha's Funeral - Absolon's Sword

8. Red Lion Inn, Dunchurch - Barrie

9. Departures - k-j

Oh, and - seriously - 11. - This Be the Verse by Cameron. Cam, I think you should take a paternal pride in what's been done here, if not in your name, in your forum. Rock on.

(Anybody else watch the final episode of Life on Mars tonight? Brilliant!)

Cheers

David

[camus]

Well done David, your editing is to be applauded, I should have taken the same approach, but I just can't face the trawl again.

Needless to say I've exluded many excellent poems.

[k-j]

I tried, but there's 40-odd pages of stuff just in "experienced" since Jan '06. I could do three months at a time, perhaps, but not 15! I think I'll see what everyone else says and just pick from that combined list.

[cameron]

Thanks David,

Yes, I'm very pleased that this site has produced/hosted so much quality stuff. It just goes to show that internet poetry doesn't have to be "junk" poetry. I'm not sure that Faber and Faber are watching yet though. We probably have a bit more convincing to do! (lol)

Yes, I did see the last episode of Life on Mars - a classic piece of television, methinks.

Cam