Buddah Moskowitz

Reply to The Family Holiday in Humor JoeUser Forums

This comes three months after you posted this ... I wanted to tell you that you have this great gift as a writer. I want to encourage it as much as possible. You have this great eye for detail and making connections that is at once familiar and disconcerting, poignant and funny, world-weary and wide eyed. Thanks for all the great writing you've shared on this site. From the snippets of your life that you've shared here, I imagine you've had quite

Reply to The Writing Process in Fiction Writing JoeUser Forums

I find it interesting that you only write every few weeks. I hardly call myself a writer and I write every few days. The process of writing should be undertaken everyday, just like meditation or praying. If you don't write everyday then you're gambling on the muse coming through when you've opened the window every few weeks. Write every day, especially if it's no

Reply to The other woman's pussy in Art JoeUser Forums

I have to comment again - damned excellent - longing and loss. There's got to be better ways to get inspiration.

Reply to Fencing in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Wow! Confident and exciting writing. You made me not only feel the electricity of this ballet a deux, I also felt Katie's smirk on my own face. You took me inside Katie and I was secretly wanting to be this cool, feline predator. Excellent character description and I absolutely respect and admire your facility with the language. Any writer who can wax rhapsodic about D&D geeks, anachronistic chivalry and whiners who say "Geez" and do it as seamless

Reply to Till I Hold You in Poetry JoeUser Forums

This would make good sound lyrics. Well done.

Reply to Having fun in Art JoeUser Forums

Great snapshot - better than Bukowski, it's MASOOOODAH

Reply to No ones dead--yet in Art JoeUser Forums

Fucker, that's good

Reply to So...How do you get Peggy out of Margaret? in Welcome JoeUser Forums

Maggie I just re-read this again. My reaction still: "Damn, that's good."

Reply to Why I hate cracker jacks in Art JoeUser Forums

Another grand slam - don't you have any happy poems?

Reply to The Punishment for Being Bad at Math in Misc JoeUser Forums

Great slice of life writing. Thanks!

Reply to Quality Time with the Talking Monkey in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Thank you for your kind words of support.

Quality Time with the Talking Monkey in Poetry JoeUser Forums

"I HATE YOU!" "YOU'RE BEING A BIG FAT JERK!" "I HATE YOU AS MUCH AS A WATERFALL!" normally I'd tell the person to fuck off but when it's my nine year old Little Blonde Talking Monkey weighing all of 54 pounds screaming it at me through a face crammed with braces and wearing smudged glasses<B

Reply to I know how it feels in Art JoeUser Forums

I love the line "I killed the man my wife married." Hey, you fucked up your married, but you got a good line in a poem. Briill-yunt, MF.

Reply to Justify myself in Art JoeUser Forums

If you got the cross, I've got the hammer and nails.

Reply to Thanks for the beer in Art JoeUser Forums

Fuck, 'nuther homerun. Good work, ese.

Reply to She taught me dignity in Art JoeUser Forums

Achingly beautiful - well written and hard earned

Reply to Yours and yours alone in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Beebs - I resonate to this sentiment. I think I keep writing because I am rarely able to hit it on the head. However, that's what keeps me writing - trying to capture on paper what my soul knows. - - well done, Buddah

Reply to Poetry 1, Moskowitz 0 in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Or C) I'm not as familiar with their work. my list of poets I can read and enjoy is pretty short: Bukowski, Parker, David Lehman, and JU's Johnny Masuda Link . I also like poetry in the Old Testament: psalms and Song of Solomon. I may not know poetry, but I know

Reply to Tova's Pics in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Now, that's a Mother's Day card!

Reply to Poetry 1, Moskowitz 0 in Poetry JoeUser Forums

I think you're right. The text book may not be the best way to learn, but I'm trying to make up for the gaping holes in my cultural awareness. I still haven't been able to appreciate ballet, and I've only ever seen one opera (on videotape). However, I give myself credit for trying new things. Robert Frost? Thanks for the favorable comparison. I have been most influenced by Charles Bukowski and Dorothy Parker, so I'm guessing that since y

Reply to "Chicken today, feathers tomorrow" in Poetry JoeUser Forums

thanks for the link - I'll go get it. I found in my local library a great book on the craft of poetry called the Poetry Home Repair Manual. (I honestly picked it up thinking it was a home repair book done in verse.) It gives good exercises and insights about the writing process. Plus, it was a fun read. Link I a

Poetry 1, Moskowitz 0 in Poetry JoeUser Forums

It sits on my nightstand silently mocking me "Postmodern American Poetry" with its picture of George Washington given an Andy Warhol treatment on the cover I search for a short poem that won't overwhelm me but every writing here appears needlessly long I turn page after page after page just try

Reply to High Drama Week in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Amen! To every single point!

Reply to "Chicken today, feathers tomorrow" in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Maggie, Thanks for the kind comment. When people don't comment, I start to second guess myself. (Then I remind myself of how many things I read and never comment on, and I feel a little better.) I am currently trying to read more traditional poetry, but for the life of me, but I keep missing the emotional center of these "classic" works. For the record, my mom is a Tom Jones fan. -- Buddah

Reply to High Drama Week in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Arizona still has music in their middle schools? Fantastic and unheard of! Here in California (I'm your Southwestern neighbor), it seems that middle school kids aren't offered music (of any kind) very much. Kids are left to learn about music from television and narrowcasted radio. I'd say you're doing God's work! Moskowitz ps - as a lifelong Californian, I can attest that we have changing seasons in the Sout