Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	3-Jan-06/9:45 PM
Yeah I meant to change that first sentence but I got side tracked by my 6 yr. old niece. The rest of what you said is pretty much what I was trying to say. I suppose there are some truly wise logicians who are willing to leave room for microanomalies(How you like that for a compound word?) even in the surest of rules but those folks are few and far between. Most of them think they know more than they know.
Re: a comment on Construction Lot (edit) by zodiac	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	3-Jan-06/9:16 PM
I thought I pretty much agreed with you on that. Yeah I was taking the shotgun approach to answering your question. I don't know why you come across that way sometimes. Maybe 'cause you rarely use flighty language or show off your childish side in your words.
Re: Schoolyard Walls by Joe-joe	LilMsLadyPoet 72.48.104.244	3-Jan-06/9:07 PM
giggling, bobby-socked girls, stained-glass, one-handed, I believe it should be. I like this...sweet. A little rough around the edges at> "along with scores of others that I could never hear. Only my own---only those in my time - - -
Re: Schoolyard Walls by Joe-joe	LilMsLadyPoet 207.69.139.139	3-Jan-06/9:06 PM
giggling, bobby-socked girls, stained-glass I believe it should be. I like this...sweet. A little rough around the edges at> "along with scores of others that I could never hear. Only my own---only those in my time - - -
Re: Shadow's Stride by D. $ Fontera	LilMsLadyPoet 207.69.139.139	3-Jan-06/8:58 PM
shred reads as a typo...the single comma....'round... other than that the images are dark, but don't paint an entire picture well. It attempts to, but doesn't. I'd say keep working on it...make it more clear what is going on. (all the shades in this black room? black says black...no color...)
Re: Shut Me Up by D. $ Fontera	LilMsLadyPoet 207.69.139.139	3-Jan-06/8:52 PM
I take it you are young or a 'young' writer. This wasn't impressive, but keep trying.
Re: loved once by celticskatermatt1	LilMsLadyPoet 207.69.139.139	3-Jan-06/8:47 PM
I don't get it.....seems too disconnected. 'again'>typo. I take it you are afraid to commit...once bitten, twice shy thing here? It could have been more clear. Why the shame?
Re: light [edited] by lmp	LilMsLadyPoet 207.69.139.139	3-Jan-06/8:43 PM
rind...hmm...fruit/ fades ON your skin.... you put a wilting fruit rind on her/his skin? Not a pretty picture...
Re: a comment on The Forgetting by Dovina	LilMsLadyPoet 207.69.139.139	3-Jan-06/8:39 PM
Other than the word pasteless, I like it. In fact it would be good even if you dropped the last line. I would think it a blessing to savor as new the smell of a rose, rediscovering things that delight the senses, and forget the pain and worry of just a moment ago. It is hard, but some good and joy comes from it as well. Isn't it a form of pastel? Without pastels? without color? Unable to paste? without paste? LOL....Microsoft Word and my standard dictionary does not have such a word as pasteless.
Re: We'll be right back after these messages by INTRANSIT	LilMsLadyPoet 207.69.139.139	3-Jan-06/8:24 PM
I would have liked more... "So I played....with myself...with my guitar...with leggos...the spider in the corner of the window...something! Yeah, depressing...it says play, and I sit passive, watching. (Like 1/2 of America.) I just see that this could have went so many places.
Re: As we lay by rahson_s	rahson_s 69.201.135.219	3-Jan-06/4:10 PM
Thanks.. It's all in a days work.. Quick and sloppy.. just like it's suppose to be.. thanks again.. Ro- www.utopiawright.com
Re: Between the Edges by woodstock20000	lmp 141.154.134.3	3-Jan-06/3:50 PM
nice. very introspective. i like.
Re: Goodbye Sad Door by woodstock20000	lmp 141.154.134.3	3-Jan-06/3:47 PM
i agree with Dovina, but maybe: "and so I continue to knock at the iron door will I never know his starlight again?" i tend to like the mystery and hope in that sort of ending. the imagination of each reader will keep the poem alive, rather than a clear finality ending it. the imagery is wonderful and my mind can see this door, perhaps even see the iron dust falling from one of the starlit slivers to the ground with each booming knock.
Re: a comment on Construction Lot (edit) by zodiac	zodiac 69.132.67.140	3-Jan-06/3:46 PM
I really meant because language, law and possibly religion are originally human inventions. If you start thinking they pre-exist us or have reality outside of our use of them, all kinds of evil ensue. I love my life. Nobody ever accuses me of wretchedness except internet users. I have no idea why.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	Dovina 69.175.32.104	3-Jan-06/3:45 PM
For this reason God made two heavens - one for those who speak in tongues,and one for those who hoped the laws of physics would change. Go to babblefish.com for translation.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	zodiac 69.132.67.140	3-Jan-06/3:38 PM
Yeah, I guess so.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	zodiac 69.132.67.140	3-Jan-06/3:38 PM
No. The rule I gave takes time into consideration. I think you misread it. The trick was "calculable rate" - specifically 9.8 meters/second^2 at sea level at a certain temperature. The speed doesn't stay the same. After one second, the object's falling 9.8 m/s; after 2 seconds, the object's falling 19.6 m/s, and so forth. After one half-second, it's falling at a speed proportional to 9.8m/s^2. The quantum level is a trump card and straw man. Nobody knows for sure what happens at the quantum level, if there is such a thing. No logician or mathematician claims to. That's why, for everyone except poets, "rules" or "laws" of physics are given as long strings of conditions (see my gravity rule above) with plenty of room for as-yet unobserved conditions. That's why we're right and poets aren't.
Re: Whipped (With Preface) by OneFingerAnswer	lmp 141.154.134.3	3-Jan-06/3:32 PM
aptly titled. i think the preface detracts from the haiku; the title alone with the poem would suffice.
Re: a comment on Schoolyard Walls by Joe-joe	Dovina 69.175.32.104	3-Jan-06/3:30 PM
Do you mean "A Proclamation to Our Lord"?
Re: a comment on Privacy Compromised by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	3-Jan-06/3:27 PM
Close to right. Tom is the rare one who gets it right.