Re: The Prince by elderking	zodiac 70.109.2.131	23-Dec-05/7:44 AM
Don't believe him. He's really a frog.
Re: P.S + Post Script by celticskatermatt1	zodiac 70.109.2.131	23-Dec-05/7:43 AM
The next time an allusion forms in your mind, write it down. It'll make your poetry more interesting. "scricten"? Maybe you mean scriven?
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	zodiac 70.109.2.131	23-Dec-05/7:39 AM
In the Zeno sense, cyan9 would have done just as well saying the length of one Cornish headland was infinite. Or his penis.
Re: a comment on Mixed Quartet by Dovina	zodiac 70.109.2.131	23-Dec-05/7:38 AM
(1) I don't think a geneticist would think so. I think a geneticist would be pissed, and a little saddened, to see his life's work summarized so. (1a) "But there was, on a structural level, very, very little difference between them, geneticists say." (2) Any adjectives you used would be stereotypical, because they'd still be giving entire races/instruments broad, *typical* qualities. That's what stereotype means. (3) I know. Merry Christmas. (4) I thought we'd agreed. You're not racist. Your poems occasionally are. "You've still managed to be racist" is sloppy expression; I'll try to avoid that in the future.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	zodiac 70.109.2.131	23-Dec-05/7:27 AM
Yes, you're making sense. But no, I don't believe the British coastline is infinite. It's very, very long, surely, and would take a very, very long time to measure. Just not an "infinite" amount of time. On a similar note, I just read that the German lunatic Otto Leuben once bet that he could turn a deck of cards in a specific order. He turned cards every day, ten hours a day, for ten years before he succeeded, after about four-and-a-half million tries.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	23-Dec-05/5:23 AM
Are you familiar with Zeno's paradox? http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/zeno2a.htm
Re: a comment on Never Let Go Again by TLRufener	cyan9 217.40.63.105	23-Dec-05/2:57 AM
I dont mean to cause offense, but your use of cliche to invoke deeper emotions is starting to bug me now, the poem on its own is worth more than the vote I have given it, but after having read many of your pieces I am starting to get bugged. Im sure to the person that this would have been intended, it would be very special to hear it, but to me, I have heard it all before from you, whats next????
Re: a comment on Slaves and their Serpents by cyan9	cyan9 217.40.63.105	23-Dec-05/2:52 AM
It was written as an introduction to a set of poems that are dark, broody, but also have a few comic moments, so I was trying to reflect that. The other reason is to draw away from the seriousness of what is being said, to make it a little lighthearted, rather than to go in all guns blazing, I'll be re-writing a few over xmas, so Ill stick this on the list and replace the silliness with something darker.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	cyan9 217.40.63.105	23-Dec-05/2:47 AM
Have a good xmas by the way if I dont get a chanc to reply.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	cyan9 217.40.63.105	23-Dec-05/2:46 AM
ME: I agree with the hoboes bit, I believe that anything can be improved with the introduction of hoboes, but even better, midgets, theyre amazing. SOMEONE: Fuck you in the eye! ME: Err Sure. ZODIAC: I think Im being too hard on you, you might run away ME: Fuck you in the eye! twice! ME: Have been busy for a while, + will be busy over xmas, but will be back with a vengeance in january. When Im used to a person, piss taking is fine, but with new sorts I tend to get agitated and spew steam out my ears whilst roaring "What did you Say?", it would be difficult for you to go too hard on me these days. ZODIAC: Thats nice. Mines still got hoboes therefore mine is the best. QED
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	cyan9 217.40.63.105	23-Dec-05/2:32 AM
The british coastline appears to be of finite length, get a tape measure; however when you start looking at every rock, and measuring around every rock the length of the coastline rapidly expands, as it does the more and more detail you look at it, thus if it were possible to look in infinite detail the coastline would be of infinite length, thus as you look further and further into the detail, you come closer and closer to the conclusion that it is inifinite. Applying the same principle to time, it depends on how much detail you want to look at it, and whether you believe that discrete time intervals exist. You could come to the conclusion that time is infinite even if you knew that the end of the world was tommorrow, based on your scientific belief and acceptance of differing theorums. Personally I believe that there are minimum size particles, and discrete time intervals, yielding finite lengths of time and coastline. Am I making sense? ji, ji , ja, jub , da da da, berrrrr, brum
Re: Temptation by PoeticXTC	sliver 172.195.78.21	23-Dec-05/1:12 AM
A worthy temptation for such a fall I imagine.
Re: Never Let Go Again by TLRufener	sliver 172.195.78.21	23-Dec-05/1:06 AM
Obviously a whoopsy-Daisy of a day, Keep it on the bright side.
Re: Tulips and Roses by Mona Lisa	sliver 172.195.78.21	23-Dec-05/1:03 AM
What does a gown of lashes have to do with Venus orbiting the Earth, Plus the other unity issues previously mentioned. Don't give up on it, just consider new alternatives.I didn't like hearing cotton twice, consider woolen womb maybe?
Re: a comment on Just for Show (Suicide revised) by sliver	sliver 172.195.78.21	23-Dec-05/12:58 AM
Does you get my point better now?
Re: Tulips and Roses by Mona Lisa	celticskatermatt1 68.8.219.40	22-Dec-05/10:50 PM
just wondering, but i dont get what the dream had to do with the first part? just wondering.
Re: For Gillian Park by Caducus	celticskatermatt1 68.8.219.40	22-Dec-05/10:47 PM
Irish?
Re: The Prince by elderking	celticskatermatt1 68.8.219.40	22-Dec-05/10:46 PM
catchy
Re: a comment on philosophy of a new age by crazyknight	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	22-Dec-05/7:42 PM
or you end up sounding like an ancient chinese pot-smoker.
Re: a comment on Unconscious by MacFrantic	Dovina 69.175.32.104	22-Dec-05/1:23 PM
I always know what I am saying.