Comment from Teri7

Excellent

This is a very cute and very well written poem about the different type of muggles. I am just thankful I am not a muggle! I love the art work you used. It made me think of the Muppets somehow. Great job! Blessings, Teri

 Comment Written 26-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Thanks very much, Teri. I'm always grateful for your comments :) Cheers, Craig

Comment from bichonfrisegirl

Excellent

Hi Craig,

I'd have to say that I like JK Rowling's version of the word 'muggle' better too. I love the artwork that you chose. It really suits the word 'muggle'.

This is a cute and well written poem. It's imaginative and I especially love the lines between each stanza that convey the different 'muggles' ... I'm just a muggle/one skeptic muggle/a heathen muggle/your fellow muggle. ~~ Connie

 Comment Written 26-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Thanks very much for the lovely comments, Connie. I just thought - the other type of muggle would be one of your favourite topics - "fish tail" - i.e. mermaids :)

reply by bichonfrisegirl on 26-Jun-2018

Yes ... a mermaid muggle. :)

Comment from Mustang Patty

Excellent

Hi, Craig,

I, too, love JK Rowling's use of the word, muggle. When the books first came out, my son and I began to refer to some people as muggles. They didn't know what we meant until the movies came out.

I love the artwork you chose to go with the poem. Though we differ on the belief in a deity, I respect your views and the way you choose to portray them.

~patty~

 Comment Written 26-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Haha - well you can call me muggle, Patty - because I'm definitely not magical. Thanks for the great comments - Craig

Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

A very well-written poem about most humans who are mostly nothing special by themselves. The spirit of God is guiding us even when we don't believe. When we die the Spirit of life leaves our body, how did it get there in the first place?

 Comment Written 26-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Sadly, I don't still have the little book my parents got for me from the school that explains all that. Many thanks, Sandra :) Craig

Comment from Alexander Vasa

Excellent

This is one of the best of these works I've seen. It is so interesting and the picture works so well initially to bring you into the poem. I found your poem funny in places, and deep in others, I liked that aspect. 'you weren't a compliant host' got a giggle but there is a biting bit of satire at times, too, and that made it smart. I know I've said this before, but that Christmas present you got just keeps on giving in the form of your poems, cheers, Ana.

 Comment Written 26-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Thanks very much, Ana. Kind comments such as this are what's kept me going to almost half way through, when I felt I'd bitten off too much about 5 months ago lol Cheers - Craig

Comment from Scarbrems

Excellent

Well, I've always found you perfectly gentlemanly. Not uncouth at all. This was a lot of fun, a jovial play on your views. Fine bit of rhyming and structure, here, though not sure why you don't capitalise the first word of all the single line 'muggle' statements, except the last one. I'm sure there's some poetic reason this poetry dunce hasn't really understood. Not capitalising fits with the continuation of the sentence, but you do it for the last one. Dramatic effect?


Skeptic - I'm guessing Aussies spell this the American way, and apparently it is creeping into the English usage as well. When we start dropping the 'U' out of 'colour', I'm dropping the bat and going home, lol.

 Comment Written 26-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Hi Emma, thanks for reviewing, and for the great comments.

I can't find any reference to a national skeptics (or sceptics) organisation in the UK, but there is a Merseyside Skeptics Society and a Greater Manchester Skeptics group - so it looks like you're being overruled. Oddly enough, the British publication The Skeptic Magazine seems to want to have an each-way bet, as they describe themselves as "the UK's longest running and foremost sceptical magazine"!

As for why I capitalised the last line, the reason is because in my mind it's a valediction, or complimentary close - as in signing off a letter, and they are normally capitalised. Rightly or wrongly, that's my reasoning, and why I also put it in italics.

I hope I'm not out of favor ;-)

Cheers,
Craig

reply by Scarbrems on 26-Jun-2018

Ahh, now I understand about the last line. Of course you haven't fallen out of favour. You might if your Americanisms take you into the realms of being a gun-toting, Trump loving evangelical, but I can't really see that happening just because of how you spell 'sceptic'.

reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Funny, now you mention it...

Comment from meeshu

Excellent

very good CD, I had never heard of a "muggle" but it is a great word. I can see it being very useful in the future, to contrast with Wizards and such..........meeshu

 Comment Written 26-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Thanks very much, Meeshu. I'm not especially a Harry Potter fan either, though I'm aware of muggles through my better half, who is.

Comment from Pamusart

Excellent

Hi Craig. I think of muddle. But it is muggle. I am no muggle. Lol. Of course I am weak like all other humans. Thanks for the poem. You really pay attention to meter and it makes all of your writes effortless reads. Thank you for sharing

 Comment Written 26-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Thank you for the lovely comments, Pam. Occasionally I slip up with meter, more often by emphasising a syllable in an unnatural way than getting the count wrong. On such occasions, I'm lucky to have good reviewers who generally pick it up for me :)

Comment from Gloria ....

Excellent

Oh, marionettes. JK really is an excellent writer, at least with Harry Potter.

I'm just a muggle as a developing solo line works lovely in a response type poem. I can even hear all those characters reciting this lovely poem.

Very creative use of your new word of the day and may the muggle with you. :)

Gloria

 Comment Written 25-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

I haven't read the books, but I've seen the movies lol (thanks to my other half, who is a mad keen HP fan). I'm hoping I won't be muggled - there seems to be more of that happening lately. Many thanks, Gloria.

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

Enjoyed this one, Craig. Thanks for explaing the JK Rowling version of the word, too. I think the word could be quite useful in poetry to rhyme with struggle, juggle etc.
And I like the honest message of muggledom.

 Comment Written 25-Jun-2018

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reply by the author on 26-Jun-2018

Yes, I think I've used it in one other poem, and in that case, rhymed it with something - maybe struggle. Thanks very much, Helen :)