CommentsComments 14401–14420 back, including replies. Only comments on poems

zodiac on Two Mirrors by Dovina 15 Nov 2005, 2:14 AM
I just realized: Two mirrors exactly facing each other don't reflect anything.
zodiac replying on Bread and blackthorns by Caducus 15 Nov 2005, 2:12 AM
Har, har.
Caducus replying on Bread and blackthorns by Caducus 15 Nov 2005, 1:25 AM
I know I'm flawed I just do the best from what I got.
zodiac on Math Poem 4 by Dovina 15 Nov 2005, 12:57 AM
Take off that silly cape and stop flapping around Alpha Beta. You're not in Narnia. It's getting embarrassing to be seen with you in public.
zodiac replying on Us Sinners by BrandonW 15 Nov 2005, 12:50 AM
I've just discovered something: As a believer, your answer doesn't count either.
zodiac replying on the battle for troy by oneglove 15 Nov 2005, 12:45 AM
Oh, that makes you more respectable. You'll probably be surprised to learn the poem (ie, really a play) isn't actually about Troy or Helen. Dr Faustus, having bargained away his soul for an infinite number of Magic Beans, wishes for Helen of Troy, only to find that she's a fantasy, and therefore pale and mindless. The question "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?" is incredulous. Faustus doesn't think she's that great.
zodiac replying on the battle for troy by oneglove 15 Nov 2005, 12:41 AM
The point is, they weren't cliches until a really good writer used or coined them all, then everybody started copying him.
zodiac replying on Bread and blackthorns by Caducus 15 Nov 2005, 12:40 AM
Yes, you would believe there are right-brains and left-brains and you're on the side of Good.
Dovina replying on Math Poem 4 by Dovina 14 Nov 2005, 8:59 PM
It's a sponge tree, grows sponges. Sometimes they wear square pants.
ALChemy on Math Poem 4 by Dovina 14 Nov 2005, 7:59 PM
Sounds like a good place to be, Minus-Neverland. I wonder what the tree looks like; The one with the square root that is.
ALChemy replying on Close To The Beginning by RawPunkGirl 14 Nov 2005, 7:41 PM
Sorry no sell. You are woman, the origin of beauty.
ALChemy replying on the battle for troy by oneglove 14 Nov 2005, 7:30 PM
Mine points to radar love.
ALChemy replying on Headlines by Dovina 14 Nov 2005, 7:22 PM
Those emotions aren't lost ol'boy. They're right there in black and white. More importantly they haven't been wasted.
oneglove replying on the battle for troy by oneglove 14 Nov 2005, 6:28 PM
unfortuntly mine seems to too
TLRufener replying on The Gate of Heaven by TLRufener 14 Nov 2005, 5:53 PM
No, not really.
Dovina replying on The Gate of Heaven by TLRufener 14 Nov 2005, 5:52 PM
Does anybody, really?
Dovina on Now and Memory by elderking 14 Nov 2005, 5:51 PM
Good. I'd shorten the first verse to give it more power: cast upon the canvas, sketched within my past, she waits for me. Or somesuch.
TLRufener replying on The Gate of Heaven by TLRufener 14 Nov 2005, 5:44 PM
I was young and unexperienced. I didn't know then how to carry loss gracefully.
Dovina replying on The Gate of Heaven by TLRufener 14 Nov 2005, 5:42 PM
To carry a loss gracefully is better than theology.
TLRufener replying on The Gate of Heaven by TLRufener 14 Nov 2005, 5:35 PM
It wasn't the goal. I wrote this poem after a friend of mine died. I was very depressed, and this piece was my way of telling myself even though she was gone, I still had work to do.