[Roger Slater]

N, or should I call you dude? Anyway, this thread was started so that people who enjoy Sapphics can share their favorites. Many poems have been posted here, several of them written by members of the Eratosphere community. Then you show up, someone no one here knows, and proclaim that Sapphics do not work in English, implying quite strongly that all of the poems posted to this thread by your fellow Sphere members are complete failures, and everyone else has a tin ear because they mistakenly feel otherwise.

I have an idea. Why not find a forum for people who grow roses so you can explain to them that you believe roses are a substandard flower? As you did here, don't identify yourself. Just be the mysterious figure who stops by to tell everyone else they are wasting their time cultivating a flower that someone named "N" doesn't care for.

Alternatively, you can approach this board with the attitude that there are people here who know as much as you do, who are more accomplished than you are, and who don't need lectures from you about quantitative and qualitative meter. We get it, you read a book, or part of one. But everyone here has already read the same book, so you'll do better at the Sphere if you think of yourself as a student as well as a teacher (the way everyone else does). If you used this thread as an opportunity to revisit Sapphics and try to find out what you have been missing, maybe you would have ended up changing your mind, or altering your views slightly. Maybe not, but at least you might have shown the people here the respect to give it a try rather than just showing up to announce your verdict and to imply that everyone else on the thread lacks the nuanced ear for meter that you seem to think you possess.