Re: a comment on There by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	6-Mar-06/1:54 PM
There's nothing strong in what he said, it was just a catchy slogan like you said. Poetry didn't free O.J., good lawyering on his side and awful lawyering on the other is what got him aquitted. Oh, that and a little help from God too.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	6-Mar-06/1:51 PM
Yes, I am saying the same thing over and over again. And yes, I think God honors His word - in covenants and otherwise. But we cannot hold God to our understanding of what H said or our definitions of words that He uses. I think that we agree on the supremecy of God, and therefore his preogative to do what He wants. We do have our different ways of saying it though.
Re: Piano by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	6-Mar-06/1:48 PM
You need a more satisfying ending. The rest of it I really liked.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	6-Mar-06/1:44 PM
No, look at how ridicululously strong poetry is. Slogans that mean nothing, but rhyme, swaying juries and voters. Yes, that's how he got OJ acquitted
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	6-Mar-06/1:40 PM
The only definition for "righteousness" is a man made one. Nobody knows the wants of God. We only know what he supposedly told us in the bible like that he's good and perfect and so he's incapable of doing evil. He must follow the laws of righteousness. All your doing is saying the same thing over and over which is that you think God can do anything he wants to including evil apparently. Have you ever heard of the Covenant? There's the rule of honoring your word. He let his son die so that he wouldn't break that one. Maybe you're just Jewish but not very good at it.
Re: a comment on A Failed Proposition Under The Night Sky by Ranger	ecargo 167.219.88.140	6-Mar-06/1:39 PM
Since you cap the beginning of each line, you'd cap the enjambed line as well. Personal preference, really--I generally only initial cap lines that begin a sentence; otherwise, I lowercase 'em. Some people prefer to initial cap each line, as you do here. I find the latter convention old fashioned and harder to read, but, again, it comes down to personal preference.
Re: a comment on Seawards by ecargo	ecargo 167.219.88.140	6-Mar-06/1:31 PM
I meant for it to stop there. ;) Actually, this is cobbled from something longer that's just not working--was hoping having this bit of it flopping around out here might help me figure out how to fix it.
Re: Piano by Dovina	ecargo 167.219.88.140	6-Mar-06/1:26 PM
Love the idea of the piano as a devouring monster, but I wish it weren't so explicit--i.e., the title and the reference to Yamaha.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	6-Mar-06/1:25 PM
So it's because he got O.J. aquitted. You wouldn't consider him a poet any other way.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.100.11	6-Mar-06/1:21 PM
Or even better, take 100 coins, each with one side black and one side white.
Re: a comment on The Ocean by Fayt	ecargo 167.219.88.140	6-Mar-06/1:19 PM
Actually, strong winds and a long fetch cause huge seas and lots of water/wave movement.
Re: my girl's day [tri-ku] by lmp	Dovina 69.175.32.104	6-Mar-06/12:48 PM
Some good thoughts here, but they seem forced into a haiku-mold.
Re: The Ocean by Fayt	Dovina 69.175.32.104	6-Mar-06/12:46 PM
Ocean water moves more with its deep currents than with the wind. Perhaps you mean that the apparent movement of waves is with the wind.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	6-Mar-06/12:33 PM
Only if we define righteousness as whatever God wants. If we give it some man-made definition, we put ourselves above God.
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	6-Mar-06/12:31 PM
No, because he's a poet. He wins with cute-sounding phrases, having no real meaning, i.e. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
Re: a comment on There by Dovina	zodiac 204.238.24.4	6-Mar-06/12:26 PM
Take a coin. It'll improve your chances. If you think you can "do a fake-out" by not taking a coin, you deserve to be punished.
Re: a comment on The Ocean by Fayt	Ranger 62.252.32.15	6-Mar-06/12:23 PM
Rain brings life, and comes from the ocean, so indirectly Fayt can be forgiven.
Re: The Ocean by Fayt	lmp 141.154.134.3	6-Mar-06/12:14 PM
i like this, but i'm going to engage in some semantics here: the ocean doesn't bring life to anyone/anything. in fact, it doesn't bring. life exists because of the ocean's properties, but a fair amount of death happens because of the ocean, also. i like the ocean. i like what you have written. i guess i just see the ocean as a formidable force of nature that can cut in both directions. this haiku shows only one edge of the blade.
Re: Seawards by ecargo	Ranger 62.252.32.15	6-Mar-06/11:11 AM
This absolutely raced past - with the exception of the last line, did you mean for it to slow down there?
Re: The Ocean by Fayt	Ranger 62.252.32.15	6-Mar-06/11:09 AM
I hate to say it but you're a syllable over. Change 'water' to 'spray', perhaps, that would fix it.