like thunder.

Ok before I get hauled in for abuse of colons. I just want to point out, technically that is not the way you are supposed to use them. Grammatically, it should be applauds because it is the audience that applauds. My call, I did not like the "s" sound between the d and b, the misuse tends to focus on the bobble-heads, and the first half is just plain wrong, like the "logic" of the H-paraders. There is the normal sentence standing apart. I wonder.

I like the patty-cake praise that you have the bobble-heads do.

of dead ends...not you, but, but, what this is about. Addressing #2 - the village idiot, Kolkore there is a very long line ahead of you. Addressing the rest. Kolkore, you have a tendency to read way to much into things, do due diligence. These are not bad things, it is a function of criticism, but it can go off on a tangent. Here the tangent is fromt. I ask you to back up a second. The title was ": like thunder" the colon was left off by an editor. The whole poem is colon heavy. Think of it as a protest song about some of the assholes here, two in particular, that cannot answer direct questions, but expect us to either listen or shut up. I wonder. You wonder, wonder is a good thing. Accepting shit isn't. And a fart is merely shit without substance.

I. In the line "back fromt zephyrs" I have searched "fromt" and could not find a thing. Is that a typo? ****** <P>

II. The second part of my feedback is about the communication around these kinds of issues. <P>

1, I could manage a cryptic poem (see the other two comments) but as the third poster who comments in the same venue, I don't mind being the village idiot who ponders aloud: If it is a typo where not the two previous messages a hint enough to respond? <P>

2. I guess I also wonder in more general terms where you stand on the communication issue. Do you see it as mostly one way with few exceptions; strictly one way, Etc. ****** <P>

3. Whether it is a typo or just cryptic text, I will assume that with no answer to readers’ feedback and questions (which in general - not particularly you - is the sad norm in the poetry public feedback board) I have a question to my two fellow posters (or any other reader) how do you approach a poem which you don’t fully understand even after doing a reasonable research (for me it’s: Google + A Standard Dictionary + a Thesaurus)? After all, the poem is not an archeological hieroglyphic; the author is alive and well. Do you ask? Do you just respond to the parts that you think you understood? How did you WickedEve and darkerdreamer even go about rating the poem? (I was struggling with it). <P>

4. How do you know when you have come to a dead end if that dead end is of the savvy cryptic nature, which you have not been able to decipher (and beat yourself for it) or maybe, and it happens at times – a mistake by the author: a typo; a misuse of an unfamiliar concept to the poet or any of numerous other types of mistakes – unless you ask of course. <P>

5. Finally, Aren’t we being overly careful and overly protective and in fact not doing a good service to the poet by not alerting him/her to the particular problems we have? <P>

With respect to all, thank you for your attention.

Why do the bobble-heads float overhead in zephyrs? How do I join that crew? You should have claimed fromt was genius and everyone was an idiot for not getting it. We would have believed you.