Honest question of the day: Is a target - presumably a shooting target - really ever intended as a shield? By whom?

Sometimes you produce the most awful bungling bogstanton.

What is a "pimple" anyways? I mean, what makes it different from free verse, etc.?

I've found that effectively parodying this poem requires changing fewer than ten words. The last line, especially, should be changed to: with brine-shrimp tearing at my eyes. I do hope someone gives it a shot.

I ENJOYED READING THIS VERY MUCH -10-

"God is dead, and no one cares... If there is a hell, I'll see you there".

It started out alright, but then it got pretty corny.

I really liked this. It flows so well. Only problem I had was with the last 2 lines of the 8th stanza. They didn't flow as the rest of the poem did. Otherwise it's really great! ~10~

Last line-should behave be behaving? -7-

For one long poem.. This is bloody good.

Interesting.

A mysterious, yet nice poem. We don't know who the 'Old Man' is and the repition of that phrase is very effective.

Seems to be about an abusive father. Not bad. I would maybe change this "How dare you say that I've done anything wrong in my life." , but otherwise, not bad at all.

If this were free verse I'd probably give it a 4 but since you called it a pimple I'll give you a 7.

WOW...AWESOME POEM!!!!!!! You are quite the poet! This might be my favorite poem from you...although i haven't got to read all your SIXTY poems....sheesh..good job! 10/10 ..of course...never changes!

Oh goodness, your swear has sent shivers of naughtiness up and down my spine. Did you know that Hobos have a top speed of four miles per hour?

to be found out that your love means nothing, unable to stop the tears from rocking down from her eyes, you deserve this rejection

I think it'd be a more effective metaphor than similie. I could visualize it though.

A gorgeous moment. The gendering of the crab is intersting. Are you making a personal statement or merely recounting an event?

Dovina, why do you write poetry. The only reason I can think of for writing poetry is to communicate something you think valuable. If you have something valuable to say surely it is important that the reader understands it as it was meant. To suggest that people interpreting it wrongly is a good thing is absurd. Hence my comment about confusion. Who would be the author of confusion? The most important thing a poet can express in my opinion is an uncertainty or an excitement over a coming together of images. In that sense the reader does not need to know what the poem means as such, rather grasp some kind of imaginary order. The Dylan Thomas poem 'the force that through the green fuse lights the flower' for instance communicates a sexual excitement understood through water on rock, quicksand stirring etc. As for the poem I believe zodiac's anger is driven by your lack of care. It is full of cliches - eyes meet, true, hope etc and seems unbothered that lines go by without offering anything ('directly in front of me the one I call husband' makes up a whole verse, it could easily make up one or two words, directly in front being redundant as it is presumed the narrator is paying attention). People make different interpretations of certain poems because the lack of depth allows them to, not because it is a good poem.