Ever get a really good....

[normal jean]

"back-handed" compliment? One that made you glad you wrote what you wrote and made you wish you could write in that mode all the time?

My favorite one of these is from Annaswirls, she left on my poem

Clear as a Bell


she wrote-

LOL! I love your sick sense of humor!

anybody else have one that mighthave been confused with a slam? I saw the post by IrishBayou yesterday, thinking what Eve wrote about toenails and poetry was a slam, when it actually was a wonderful compliment ( and the author ofthe poem agreed),

Just the thought of Anna calling me "sick" makes me giggle ( and google)

anna, I love you for pointing this out, I had no idea!!!

 

[Liar]

I got a "Jesus man, you need therapy." when a friend of mine read this.

Which must mean that he actually understood it.

 

[normal jean]

I got a "Jesus man, you need therapy." when a friend of mine read this.

Which must mean that he actually understood it.

I just read it

trippy, Liar, trippy. I can see why he said that, and I enjoy therapeutic poetry like this

 

[cherries_on_snow]

I didn't get a backhanded compliment, but rather a (hopefully accidental) thorny rose. When a sweet person here was praising a poem, the person said it was seemless, though all the rest of the language about the poem indicated that the person liked it. I think the person meant seamless (very different word).

 

[Tzara]

I didn't get a backhanded compliment, but rather a (hopefully accidental) thorny rose. When a sweet person here was praising a poem, the person said it was seemless, though all the rest of the language about the poem indicated that the person liked it. I think the person meant seamless (very different word).

That's pretty funny, actually.

Now you have me thinking about "seemless stockings".