Found while trawling my blog archives for broken links:

[ajodasso]

I started this journal on 20 January 2002; that means I've been posting here more or less consistently for just a month shy of thirteen years. This week, I've managed to comb through all posts from 2002 and 2003, and, in the process, I discovered a number of locked poem-drafts that I had completely forgot even existed. I don't think that these

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[shehasathree]

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[ajodasso]

By my present standards, these aren't quite publishable - but then, if I were to take them and do some hardcore revision on them, who knows, they might spruce up? I was just shocked to find them floating around back there in years past as private-locked posts. I don't even remember writing one of them.

[alltoseek]

Earlier you mentioned about people being scared off of poetry nowadays - that it's presented as something inscrutable and hard. That's sort of how I feel - I have no way of understanding what makes a "good" poem vs a "bad" one. What makes a poem?

In tumblr!speak: HOW POETRY? HOW DO YOU POEM?

I can sort of recognise when one bit of my doggerel is better than another, but I assume it's all various levels of crap, because I have no objective measurements. Or something like that. Maybe I've adopted the notion that poetry is inscrutable and hard because I've never been educated out of it.

Perhaps sometime you could address this in a post? If you want? I dunno if December is full, or if you would want to think on it for another time.

[ajodasso]

In a startling turn of coincidence, this evening's December Blogging Meme post is going to be on that very subject! Somebody else had claimed today and asked for exactly that, only worded differently.

[teithiwr]

These are fascinating - I can see something of your current style being born in them. I especially like "Into the Cold".

It's always so interesting to read early stuff by writers I love! Thanks for sharing these.

I had a bit of a transitional phase in 2008-2009. Would be interesting to look back at those poems sometime. I still recall crystal-clear the one poem in early 2009 that signals the start of a new voice for me.

[ajodasso]

I'm tempted to say that "Into the Cold" and "Minor Collisions" are the strongest of this set; your liking of the former corroborates this theory, so yay <3

[lavendertook]

I started my LJ 4 months after you--drawn in at the height of post-FotR movie Tolkien fandom when this form of social network was new and shiny. It's still the shiniest form to me, here on LJ and DW.

[ajodasso]

I think that's when most of our cohort, as it were, were drawn in! My friend Esther gave me a code, and the rest is most assuredly history.