Re: Skellington Bakery by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Lenore 64.252.110.247	8-Aug-06/7:55 PM
You DO Love me! You really DO Love me! *swoon*
Re: a comment on A Poem For George Bush by Edna Sweetlove	-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 81.151.149.27	8-Aug-06/4:49 PM
Hmm, so Uncle Sam sold weapons to Saddam. It always surprises me when people use this (usually in combination with the photograph of Rumsfeld shaking hands with the Moustache itself) as an argument against regime change in Iraq. It seems to me that one of the most radical aspects of recent American foreign policy is how it is beginning to spell a break from the old model of propping up dictatorships whenever it seems convenient. It was that kind of short-termist realpolitik which led to the infamous Rumsfeld-Hussein Kodak Moment. If the idea of America selling weapons to Saddam is undesirable (and it is), then I'd have thought it at least slightly pleasing that we've now tossed the scoundrel in jail, and are at least trying to pursue a long term political solution to the Iraqi problem. Your gloating over the prospect of civil war is equally surprising, particularly when the coalition's enemy in Iraq - the insurgency - has openly declared that they want to foment a civil war between Sunnis and Shia. That's why they blow up mosques and fire rockets into crowds of pilgrims. I'll grant there's an argument to be made about whether or not the presence of foreign troops in Iraq makes the situation worse for ordinary Iraqis. It's not a strong enough argument to dissuade me from supporting regime change, but it is at least an argument I can respect. But when you post five verses about the plight of the Iraqi people, spend the entire time spouting Michael Moorisms, AND DON'T DIRECT A SINGLE WORD OF CRITICSM TOWARDS THE INSURGENCY, it makes me think that you're not so much anti-war, as pathologically anti-American. In future, if you want something to blame for the sectarian strife in Iraq, blame more than 20 years under brutal dictatorship, rather than our overdue attempts, against considerable odds, to rectify the situation.
Re: Ode to Nicholas Jones by lukehanney	Edna Sweetlove 81.179.106.108	8-Aug-06/4:29 PM
Garbage.
Re: a comment on ITS A SHAMBLES by lukehanney	Edna Sweetlove 81.179.106.108	8-Aug-06/4:28 PM
oops, I meant "drunken". Anyway who cares, uneducated football oiks couldn't spell their own name.
Re: ITS A SHAMBLES by lukehanney	Edna Sweetlove 81.179.106.108	8-Aug-06/4:27 PM
Dreary working class rubbish. How I rejoice that the scum filth ugly white van proletarian English football yobs saw their vile and pathetic dreams CRUSHED to fucking pulp earlier this year. We pray for their drunklen deaths.
Re: ODE TO NICHOLAS JONES III by lukehanney	Edna Sweetlove 81.179.106.108	8-Aug-06/4:24 PM
Boring drivel. My cat writes better poetry.
Re: A Night out With Chaucer by cleverdevice	Shuushin 63.167.136.250	8-Aug-06/11:25 AM
brylliante
Re: I wish I was a chav by Stephen Robins	Shuushin 63.167.136.250	8-Aug-06/11:19 AM
a ending would be nice.
Re: a comment on How To Ride a Bicycle by Dovina	Dovina 12.72.36.168	7-Aug-06/8:32 PM
Spoken like an iron-donkey cowboy.
Re: How To Ride a Bicycle by Dovina	patty t 70.30.185.161	7-Aug-06/6:35 PM
this is wonderful
Re: a comment on How To Ride a Bicycle by Dovina	Dovina 12.72.36.225	7-Aug-06/5:00 PM
Thanks, I think. Anyway it’s more owner’s manual than poem.
Re: Children of Wolves by Caducus	Dovina 12.72.36.53	7-Aug-06/11:49 AM
Sylvia Plath, her life after death lived in her two children, her husband hearing the wolves at night – it must have been a baby-step to 'life after death.' You nailed it where she birthed another her. “It,” referring apparently to the baby is common usage, but degrading I think, where “she” would better serve.
Re: How To Ride a Bicycle by Dovina	amanda_dcosta 202.164.140.158	7-Aug-06/8:58 AM
D. I find this cool and amusing, esp.the last four lines. It amazes me of how you think of simple things and express them in poetry.
Re: a comment on Forest by the Sea by Dovina	ALChemy 71.75.188.163	7-Aug-06/6:10 AM
The thinker was originally a part of a theme piece called the gates of hell. He sits at the top of the doorway and represents a man with unlimited creative potential but limited ability. He's the thinker because he is unable to be the doer. Both your poem and the thinker represent great potential that is being kept back by something.
Re: a comment on Forest by the Sea by Dovina	Dovina 12.72.34.213	7-Aug-06/5:52 AM
Rodin sculpted a man sitting, thinking, which I would not have thought related to a boat tethered to its dock on a fine day for sailing. But maybe we think too much, while real mariners are out on the water. I like that comparison. Thanks for the comment.
Re: Forest by the Sea by Dovina	ALChemy 71.75.188.163	7-Aug-06/4:51 AM
This really captures the feel of wasted potential with the images of the crewless ships tethered. Like Rodin's Thinker in that way. This is pure poetry.
Re: Forest by the Sea by Dovina	some deleted user 64.140.227.180	6-Aug-06/5:01 PM
I like this alot Dovina--the rhythm, the imagery. It starts out well, and as far as i'm concerned the last two stanzas really bring it home.
Re: Forest by the Sea by Dovina	amanda_dcosta 202.164.140.158	6-Aug-06/9:40 AM
I like the accidental rhymes. It keeps the tempo going. and the idea of the poem is good too.
Re: a comment on Nights in the city of Godiva by Mr Pig	Ranger 86.142.242.249	5-Aug-06/10:20 PM
Not going to Eisteddfod this year (it started yesterday I think), but I'm back in England for the summer. I have it on the highest authority that far from merely being a festival of poets and artists, it's actually a celebration of hedonism and drunken revelry to surpass anything we English could manage. It certainly outdoes my village's local fire show, which is also this weekend - and which I'm also going to miss. I guess there's a moral in there somewhere, but I'm damned if I can work out what it is.
Re: a comment on Nights in the city of Godiva by Mr Pig	Ranger 86.142.242.249	5-Aug-06/10:13 PM
It's been scientifically proven that to neglect one's bow'ls for too long has dire consequences. So really, even if I had remained inactive they would have returned, bidden or not.