Re: a comment on Static by wilco	wilco 24.92.74.122	14-Dec-05/8:59 PM
It's kind of obscure, I know...that's the direction I'm going with my writing right now...just more fun, I think I'm working on the 4th verse...I'll repost this when I get that completely worked out. I'm working on writing my bands debut album and I'm trying to see what works best as lyrics and then use what works the best putting it to music.
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	14-Dec-05/7:15 PM
I'm surprised nobody has tried to do a best of Poemranker book.
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	14-Dec-05/7:12 PM
Yeah, I didn't realize you meant a go to favorites link at the sites main page. My bad. I see now. I hope nentwine does it.
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	zodiac 69.132.67.140	14-Dec-05/7:04 PM
The conversation's in Suggestions now, bud. 1. Because as far as other people are concerned, your favorites are automatically arranged newest to oldest. 2. Because a new user on the site looking for good poetry won't know to look at your, AlChemy's, favorites. They will know to click a link for "User's Top 10s" or something such. 3. Because a longer list would be kind of wearying. 4. Because it would encourage people with only a few favorites marked to really stake out their 10 favorite favorites. 5. Because everybody's Top 10s on the same page would have the same effect as a working Top 10 page - ie, you'd see that several people had chosen "Flowers for Monet", by Shuushin, while only thepinkbunnyofdoom had chosen all thepinkbunnyofdoom posts. It would make self-aggradizers more obvious, and force people to think about other posters besides themselves.
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	14-Dec-05/6:59 PM
I was just thinking the same thing about the "publish" button. Check out my suggestion. Tell me what you think.
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	14-Dec-05/6:56 PM
Good Idea. Why not just arrange your favorites by how you ranked them though? That way you can have a longer list if you want.
Re: to move foward by ay deee	nentwined 64.60.192.131	14-Dec-05/6:32 PM
s1 -- fun s2 -- more fun s3 -- simple, straightforward, but fitting s4 -- too straightforward in seeming, to me, even though I'm completely not getting line 4; flow seems off, as well, somehow. s5 -- also not quite fun enough (maybe if you cut 'but alas'). Hmm.
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	zodiac 69.132.67.140	14-Dec-05/6:29 PM
Or maybe Top 10 lists, linked, in a format like: zodiac [link to zodiac] 1. Farm animals INTRANSIT Ghazal 5.24;1 2. Waiting Room jessicazee Free verse 5.50;5 3. Blackout, Amman, November, 2005 zodiac Free verse 5.56 4. A country called Cha richa Free verse 5.19 5. The Negro Everyone Free verse 5.17 6. ...So We Stayed In The Water Fear of Garbage Free verse 5.54 7. After seven days in the sun <~> Villanelle 6.67 8. Las Gaviotas Bachus Villanelle 7.64 9. The Gentleman -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. Free verse 6.75 10. Portsmouth belle 2 Garrett S Sexton Free verse 5.91 Dovina 1... 2... AlChemy 1... silver And so on. Of course it would be a lot like Favorites, just more accessible to new users unfamiliar with the site. And of course it would be just as arbitrary (and possibly tpbod would make his Top 10 entirely out of his own poems) but that wouldn't matter. It wouldn't claim to be objective; just a new user's guide, made by current or regular users. Anyway, I might just make an unofficial one myself. There's my current Top 10. Any other takers? Going to Suggestions now...
Re: Static by wilco	nentwined 64.60.192.131	14-Dec-05/6:29 PM
Hmm. 4th stanza did jump out as jerky before noticing your comment, but I don't know how to be helpful. I'm really not understanding what's going on.
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	nentwined 64.60.192.131	14-Dec-05/6:25 PM
I might be ready to strip anon votes from counting. thanks re: readout--just occurred to me, and it's been forever since I did a little bit of java work (these days it's all about the php). as for the totally subjective top 20 lists, that's... sort of like the 'favorites' list you can set up? Maybe I should add a "browse favorite lists" or something. Or maybe handpick a few folks' favorites for them to "publish". Hmm. Want to continue this in suggestions? ;)
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	zodiac 69.132.67.140	14-Dec-05/6:19 PM
Eliminate anonymous votes somehow. No, I can't think of a way of doing it without chaos ensuing. Maybe an amnesty for all existing anonymous votes, just no more from here out. Of course, it would be hard to replace poems whose scores were already inflated, but it would happen eventually. The current Top 20, by way of example, is mostly legitimate - unlike most of the Top 20s since I've been here. The sad truth, though, is that anonymous votes are only legitimate, like, 5% of the time. Certainly it wouldn't be worth keeping the current anonymous voting system just to allow those genuine casual site visitors to vote, when a good portion of them might just go through the trouble of creating accounts to vote instead. By the way, cool new vote readout on poem details! The really best way to improve the Top 20 is to solicit totally subjective Top 20 lists from regular users and post them as "User Recommendations" or something such. That would fulfill all the purposes of the current top 20 except 'Winning Poemranker'.
Re: a comment on One Moment to the Other (v3) by nentwined	nentwined 64.60.192.131	14-Dec-05/6:17 PM
Huh. That works pretty well. Thanks. :)
Re: One Moment to the Other (v3) by nentwined	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	14-Dec-05/6:15 PM
Simply change the line so "memory" is "memorable" and then change the last line so it ends with "ephemeral".
Re: Ode to necrophilia by Bobjim	nentwined 64.60.192.131	14-Dec-05/6:07 PM
last line's pretty funny.
Re: a comment on Moving Forward In Reverse (For Ann) by wilco	nentwined 64.60.192.131	14-Dec-05/6:05 PM
you have any suggestions? :) you probably have and I've ignored and/or forgotten them, but with the passing of time and memory comes curiosity.
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	14-Dec-05/6:00 PM
Do you have any favorite photos by Carroll?
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	14-Dec-05/5:45 PM
His name was Humbert Dumpledy. He sadly died in a fall off the castle wall during a brave attack on the Gar. :)
Re: a comment on Oh Merry Fay (part 1) by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	14-Dec-05/5:39 PM
He was sort of the Andy Kaufman of literature wasn't he. Maybe we can get Humpty Dumpty to explain some of our poems to Dovina.
Re: One Moment to the Other (v3) by nentwined	zodiac 69.132.67.140	14-Dec-05/5:24 PM
I checked onelook.com, search terms *mary, *mery, *mory, and *mury, and got: GEMMARY, n. A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively. GREMORY, in demonology, a strong Duke of Hell that governs twenty-six legions of demons. She tells all things past, present and future, about hidden treasures, and procures the love of women, young and old, but especially maidens. She is depicted as appearing in the form of a beautiful woman with the crown of a duchess tied around her waist, and riding a camel. Other spellings: Gamory, Gemory, Gomory BLOMERY, n. (Manuf.) A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron. GRAMARY, magic; enchantment (NOTE-http://phrontistery.info/ for obscure words. It's ace.) NUMMARY, a. Of or relating to coins or money. FLUMMERY, n, Meaningless or deceptive language; humbug. Any of several soft, sweet, bland foods, such as custard. BUMMERY, n. See Bottomery. [Obs.] There was a scivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond. --R. North. STEMMERY, n. A large building in which tobacco is stemmed Also, SUMMARY, PRIMARY, INFIRMARY. If you want to use an obscure word for the rhyme, try the Dylan trick of using the obscure word for the first appearance of the sound, followed by the obvious rhyme (rather than looking like you forced yourself to resort to an obscure word to finish the rhyme.)
Re: a comment on You Have It Backwards by LilMsLadyPoet	zodiac 69.132.67.140	14-Dec-05/4:43 PM
I don't care much about people debating. I occasionally care if people have half-baked ideas, especially if they're pretending to be poets at the time. You wouldn't want me going around talking silly in the name of your chosen profession, would you?