Comment from Dolly'sPoems

Excellent

I learned a little about elks from your poem here Beth and I enjoyed your rhymes and how wonderful to live near them and see them in the fields, I have never seen one so you brought the experience to my eyes here, love Dolly x

 Comment Written 06-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 06-Nov-2020

Thank you Dolly, I appreciate the reiview and comments. I'm pleased you liked my poem.
Beth

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

Great information! Did you take that picture? I bet the sounds are really loud. How funny they grow that rack just for mating season! Hope you do well in the contest!

rutting it over, (is?)
pheromones: Female sex harmones (hormones)

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank ;you Helen, I appreciate the review and comments. I took about fifty pictures, but some of them a blurred. I accidentally had the camera set wrong on some of them. On one I had the movie setting on and it made gif. picture where one is pawing the ground. I put that one on first but I changed it. to this. There sound is really strange. They call it bugling and I guess it does sound like a bugle.

Comment from Mary Vigasin

Excellent

I enjoyed this Beth.
As a city girl and now in the suburbs, I do not "see" to much wild life. Skunks are about it. Your poem both gives me an understanding and education about these magnificent animals.
You rhythming and story telling is wonderful.
Good luck in the contest.
Mary

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank you Mary, I really appreciate the review and comments. There are deer, squirrels, rabbits, opossum, wolves, and raccoons in my yard, but I had to go to North Carolina to see elk.
Beth

Comment from Raffaelina Lowcock

Excellent

This is a very well written poem that depicts much about the Elk and defines much about their habits and environment. It's great to know as much about our animals as we can since they are a part of our world. You help very much here.

Ralf

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank you so much for the review and comments. I enjoyed going there to see them. Beautiful country.
Beth

Comment from nancyjam

Excellent

First of all, that is an amazing photoI Elk are so majestic. I loved learning about them in your poem. Great descriptive images give the reader a feel
for the elks habitat and habits. thanks for sharing and good luck in the contest.
Nancy

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank you so much for the review a nd comments. It was so much fun going there and watching them and taking pictures.
Beth

Comment from Joanne Gill-Maddick

Excellent

This is a Beautifully written poem it has a nice flow and rhyme scheme. These are Very interesting facts about the Elk. Very nice photo to go with your words as well.

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank you so much Joanne. I appreciate the review and comments I'm so glad you liked the poem.
Beth

Comment from Sankey

Excellent

Wow! So the Male has a busy day getting all these gals preggers in a short time. I bet he is tired after all that activity in such a short time. This was a great poem a lesson to a lot of us not in the know. Great video as well. Wish you well. Did my first post in Walu's place yesterday.

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank you so much for the review and comment. I don't think all the females are in hear on the same day. He just has to take care of the ones who are. The season last about two months.
Does Walu have a separate site to post on?
Beth

Comment from Ulla

Excellent

Hi Beth, how refreshing it is to you writing a love poem with a story within about the elk. Yes, I have seen them in Alaska, I believe they are called moose there, and in Sweden, where you come across them quite often. They are a nuisance there coming into peoples gardens.
I loved your poem and you've reminded me of a true story, I have to tell. Ulla:)))

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank for reviewing and commenting on this poem. I'm so glad you liked it. Moose and Elk belong to the same family, but they are really quite different in looks. The Moose is larger and has a large rounded nose and a hump behind their neck. The elk have faces more like a deer. Their racks are also different. I've seen both animals in Yellowstone.
Beth

reply by Ulla on 05-Nov-2020

I believe the 'elks' in Sweden are really moose. They are just called elks. A mistake then.

Comment from Suzanna Ray

Excellent

Dear Beth, your photo is fantastic. Mine looks like it is moving!
I don't begrudge the poor Cherokee for having poached so many elk, I imagine that what they are given from the government to stay on the reservation, does not provide much protein

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank you suzanna, I appreciate the review and comments. I guess I must have had to movie setting accidentally on when I took that picture. I have a lot of still shots as well. It is moving because it is in the gif. format. The movement may be distracting. At first I had a still picture. I might change it back.

Comment from Elizabeth Emerald

Excellent

Eloquent and elegant depiction of an observation that some would be tempted to treat satirically given the human male tendency toward harem fantasies. Rutting--reminiscent of a certain someone's ex-husbands. Lovely verse!


Omit commas/periods in general in poetry when at end of line.

for it's then [omit comma] they put on their best show. (As would also be the case were this sentence in prose)




Also omit


(also omit comma between

 Comment Written 05-Nov-2020

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reply by the author on 05-Nov-2020

Thank you so much Liz. I appreciate the review and comments.
I was always taught that punctuation in poetry was optional, and poets were free to punctuate however they chose. The rules are much looser. I prefer punctuation, but as you know, I don't always follow the rules.
Beth

reply by Elizabeth Emerald on 05-Nov-2020

Oh. sure, you can use punct. if you prefer--as you say, rules are lax--just looks cleaner when breaks are obvious as most of yours are--I use punct. when forced to split sentences mid-line. Good for you being able to avoid that throughout--very impressive feat!