Gary Bateman - New Member from Germany Says Hello!!

[GMBateman]

First Time posting anything here to this site. My interest is focused primarily on the "Creative Writing" aspect of the Forum. (I joined by invitation of another member.) Having never been exposed to this forum and procedures before, I'm not really knowledgeable of where documents such as "poems" or "poetic narratives" are posted. Since this is a "Test Thread," I will go ahead and post a simple poem here to see if this works and what comments (if any) I might receive in return.

Here's a Double Dactyl poem entitled: "Prufrock's Symbolic World, dated January 14, 2015:
Prufrock’s Symbolic World



Metaphors-Extraordinaire


Thomas Stearns Eliot

Metaphysical consciousness

Aura of aging and decay.



Streams of consciousness forever

Proto-disillusionment

The mermaids singing each to each

The mermaids will not sing today.



Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,

(January 14, 2015) (Double Dactyl)

[Jeff]

First Time posting anything here to this site. My interest is focused primarily on the "Creative Writing" aspect of the Forum. (I joined by invitation of another member.) Having never been exposed to this forum and procedures before, I'm not really knowledgeable of where documents such as "poems" or "poetic narratives" are posted. Since this is a "Test Thread," I will go ahead and post a simple poem here to see if this works and what comments (if any) I might receive in return.

Here's a Double Dactyl poem entitled: "Prufrock's Symbolic World, dated January 14, 2015:
Prufrock’s Symbolic World



Metaphors-Extraordinaire


Thomas Stearns Eliot

Metaphysical consciousness

Aura of aging and decay.



Streams of consciousness forever

Proto-disillusionment

The mermaids singing each to each

The mermaids will not sing today.



Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,

(January 14, 2015) (Double Dactyl)

Hello GMBateman, and welcome.

[darin]

Beautiful - and welcome.

one administrative note - unless you've specifically copyrighted something, the circle-c and the year aren't required because you maintain all rights for your intellectual property with or without the circle-c. If you'd still want to use the circle-c, it's best to put it just before a year, and it doesnt need to be in conjunction with the word copyright. So - it's not "Copyright © Gary Bateman, 12 Jan 15" It'd be - ©2015, Gary Bateman" etc.

What part of Germany are you in? I lived near Mainz for a few years....

[LongTermGuy]

.....Welcome Gary Bateman ....Glad to see you here and look forward to some of your work.

[GMBateman]

Beautiful - and welcome.

one administrative note - unless you've specifically copyrighted something, the circle-c and the year aren't required because you maintain all rights for your intellectual property with or without the circle-c. If you'd still want to use the circle-c, it's best to put it just before a year, and it doesnt need to be in conjunction with the word copyright. So - it's not "Copyright © Gary Bateman, 12 Jan 15" It'd be - ©2015, Gary Bateman" etc.

What part of Germany are you in? I lived near Mainz for a few years....

Gary Reply Thanks, and I appreciate your note and the information on the copyright, etc. Many of the poems I may be citing come from a new book that I recently published. And I will be posting new ones I write with the international poetry association I belong to. I'll just drop the copyright info since that will make things easier in the end. Listing my name, date of the poem, and type of the poem is enough.

I live in Northern Germany in a town named Schoeningen which is in the Hannover-Braunschweig region 186 KM west from Berlin.

I too lived in the past in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden there very close to Mainz and know that area very well and Stuttgart too where I formally worked with the US European Command there before retiring last year.

Best Wishes,
Gary

[Noir]

Welcome to DP, quite an impressive Bio you have, here's hoping you contribute to other areas of the forum as well.

[GMBateman]

Thanks for Your Note!!

We'll see how everything goes with posting things from time-to-time. Like Tyr-Ziu Saxnot, I actively write poetry and short stories and focus all of my efforts toward publication. I tend to touch on polemical issues and other issues of world-wide import in the course of my poetry -- yet I am a multi-thematic writer by inclination and interest!!

Again -- My Best Wishes!!
Gary Bateman

[Drummond]

Guten Tag, Gary, from a Conservative Brit. Welcome ... I'm looking forward to your contributions here. Good to have you on board.

I've visited Germany a couple of times .. seen Koblenz, Frankfurt, Bingen-am-Main (a former friend had relatives there I was introduced to), and during an Austrian holiday, went across the border to Munich.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Welcome to a wonderful forum my friend. --Tyr

[jimnyc]

Welcome, Gary!

We're glad to have you here.

[Perianne]

Welcome!