I always thought the best people to be friends with are the ones that will challenge you when they feel it's needed, support you when you need it, and not be offended when you do the same. Someone honest and not needy. Hmmm come to think of it that is what would make a good girlfriend as well. :)

I personally like Emily Dickinson.

Wouldn't great be subjective too? A poet that you might think is great might not be great to me

No I'm not reading every post. I went by the OP. That suggested exactly what I asked

Hey you posted it

As a retired mod here....I know their dirty little secrets

Hehehehe

sometimes ?

i all most never see a thank you from the people asking for help
i have added a few thanks even though i wasn't the one asking for help
and yes i agree my hats off to the many that keep this sight going
from the addmins to the mod's to the payers of the bills

thanks : )
you have helped out a lot more people then you will ever know

So the mark of a profound and intelligent person is if he/she writes poetry?

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List Of Female Poets
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_poets
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), American poet, novelist and short story writer
Kathy Acker (1947–1997), American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer
Léonie Adams (1899–1988), American poet, seventh United States Poet Laureate
Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry; lived much of her life in England
Kim Addonizio (born 1954), American poet, novelist
Kelli Russell Agodon (born 1969), American poet
Delmira Agustini (1886–1914), Uruguayan poet
Akazome Emon (956–1041), Japanese poet and historian
Rachel Akerman (1522–1544), Austrian Jewish poet writing in German
Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian and Soviet modernist poet
Anne-Marie Albiach (born 1937), French poet and translator
Jordie Albiston (born 1961), Australian poet and academic
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), American novelist, playwright and poet
Claribel Alegría (born 1924), Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist
Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962), American poet, essayist, playwright and academic
Ellen Palmer Allerton (1835-1893), American poet
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Speaking[Writing] before you think is like wiping yourself before you've had a bowel movement... Present the research that supports your statement[s] or keep quiet. Thank you.

This thread sounded like a good idea at the time, didn't it Tim?,

I mean come on a dating site and basically state " you gals don't know s**t about poetry.

Intelligence aside..... not very smart

"death" that we know it first hand here on this world should be celebrated in hopes the person went to Heaven. Why mourn at a funeral? Are they feeling anymore pain of anything? No, they are at peace, they have finished the journey. You'll catch up with them one day in the paradise one day hopefully :)

You might want to qualify what you are writing, as your train of thought went from correlating age and gender with sexual preference to pheromones causing attraction and not age....contradicting yourself might not be the best direction to take this into...

I never mentioned paddy the tarmac digger

Shucks, Tim, that's like the sweetest thing

But I dig chicks (and women)!