poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on Tugboats by poetandknowit.

Mentor21 Sep 2002

BORING. an ineffectual, blatant attempt to overwhelm the audience with overpowering imagery. SUBTLETY is crucial in a piece like ths. Not to mention that the thought process is fragmented and unrefined. Amusing to read the comments, especially the one that says (and I quote exactly):"You're so predictable. I don't have to look things up, well sometimes to make sure I'm not mis-spelling them. The words I used are far from big. Trinity Juvenile Fatuity. Are you home schooled? Does your fundamentalist mommy waiver between punishing you to keep you out of the eternal pit and licking your genitals? Hard to get an adequate education under those conditions.
Reply ". ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL!! You should really be posting on a comedy site, not on a poetry site. Someone claiming to know English, and look words up to avoid misspelling them, then turns around and puts punctuation where none is needed and then goes so far as to use the worng word altogether!! Oops..or did she just misspell "waver"? I suppose we'll never know. I have written my own verse, and to be quite frank, would rather not post it anywhere if the alternative were here, simply because the so-called poem I just read is so uninspiring and obiously neurotic as to cast a palpable pall on any kind of quality work.