Why do you think empowerment for women is nonsense? At any rate, I haven't presumed any reasons, just pointed out that "this poem is about a woman performing nude in a male arena for a lone watching man and thinking that's liberation". If I've presumed anything, it's that the undressed character is woman, for one, and she thinks her action is liberating, for another. If I'm wrong on either of these points, sorry. But then this poem has even less point than I've previously imagined. I suspect nentwined misplaces my comments and not yours because while you reply to comments and are replied to in a more or less one-to-one fashion (ie, one of your conversations makes a nice diagonal from top left to bottom right) made possible by your ubiquitous presence on poemranker, I can only make it online an hour a day (and at the end of your long day of posting, at that,) and spend a lot of my time replying to comments that have already gotten answers from others. The comment-heirarchy bug misplaces this kind of comments. Eg, if I reply to your "I believe in telling" comment now, nentwined'll put me after richa's comment or your "Please, let's not rehash that". That, and I think he's racist against Islams.

Sorry. I was under the impression that the bulk of your last couple of arguments centers around the following misunderstanding: SOME USER: On average, people are better than yeasts. DOVINA: You miss the point. A few yeasts are superintelligent telekinetics. As far as I can remember, I've never said anything about you being merely one of a 'kind'. You might want to check my above message a little more carefully, and then stop misusing words like "merely", "seems", "meaningful" and "hopeless Gay introvert" for what I can only imagine you consider insult value.

I heard a story once about a girl who was raped and her name was June and the time from October to June was nine months, and it kinda goes along if I stretch it a bit, kinda the way a genius does when a step above the other guys. Of course I wouldn't brag or anything like that.

Not trying doesn't mean being incapable of success. In any case I appreciate the comment. Mark

well, it has many allusions for me. Were you aware of the double meaning of your own pome? because an arabesque in ballet often accompanies a long beat, and the transition to/from another form involves arching/flattening the arch of the foot, accompanied by a grace note. So every main word in the pome has a double meaning -- two parallel images, complementing each other. Sent chills down my spine. Painful points -- also fits both the dance metaphor and the meaning of arabesque arch as an arch decorated with an angular motif of stylized leaves & vines.

better?

Yeah, i had you pegged as the kinda gal who likes it straightforward. Some of it is kind of odd...and you are right that the second line isn't a sentence. It's a song though...sometimes you gotta scrap the rules...and actually, the semicoln shouldn't be there...

And a rock so heavy he cannot lift it. Does that make Him flawed?

Please, let's not rehash that. It's been gone over more on poemranker than a lone bitch beagel in a pack of males.

That is the point. You only like the first line? This actually goes with "Waiting for October" and another that will be my next post. A trilogy, I guess.

Tell us what you believe we mean by 'show don't tell'.