Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	zodiac 212.38.134.51	12-Oct-05/12:31 AM
Here's some more math: Name the 10 most famous rhyming poems you know. Now name the 10 most famous non-rhyming poems. Did you actually make it to 10 non-rhyming poems? You're disqualified from this discussion.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	zodiac 212.38.134.51	12-Oct-05/12:30 AM
The 'Is hip-hop poetry' discussion is this year's version of 'What if the color I think is orange is really purple?' Of course hip-hop is poetry. Most of it is bad poetry. In grad school lit classes we studied Tupac and DMX. We didn't study poemranker poets. Do the math.
Re: Hell is spring by INTRANSIT	sliver 172.185.236.87	12-Oct-05/12:07 AM
I don't know about you, but I spent all day shoveling 6' snow drifts. SPRING? Not in Peyton Colorado,
Re: Tonight’s Halloween by TLRufener	sliver 172.185.236.87	12-Oct-05/12:04 AM
Hello friend, still at it I see. Doing well.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	Dovina 209.247.222.91	11-Oct-05/9:04 PM
You simply will not give up the notion that I think evolution has a mind. It does not! We have faith, and a possiible source of our propensity for faith is evolution. Perhaps we surveve better with faith than without it. I see nothing non-sensical about saying that. I keep saying it because you keep not getting it.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	Dovina 209.247.222.91	11-Oct-05/8:59 PM
But I had a better thing to say, which you chose to ignore for trivial pursuits.
Re: Skyline by MacFrantic	wilco 66.61.101.130	11-Oct-05/8:41 PM
Not bad, guy, but I think it's a little long....
Re: Keep on Going by april fool	wilco 66.61.101.130	11-Oct-05/8:29 PM
ok, will do. So, now take this advice and write yourself another poem.
Re: a comment on 10/8 by cronus	Dovina 209.247.222.91	11-Oct-05/8:13 PM
Whenever I untangle some strand of the ball that is how you think, I find ten more mismatched, twisted and exasperatingly funny.
Re: a comment on Sleep by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/3:26 PM
I've considered dropping all the periods. I think it will work without them. Sonnets can be quite a struggle. I'm not sure it won't be a little confusing without "Till then" but I'll think that over a bit. I don't think this one beats your last sonnet.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/3:13 PM
And if these lidicrous so called poets can effect culture so much just think of what a good poet could do in that genre. A bad lyrical poet does not mean lyrical poetry is bad nor does a bad rapper make rap bad.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	11-Oct-05/2:57 PM
I still respect your opinion. Balls or no balls.
Re: a comment on In the berth by INTRANSIT	INTRANSIT 205.188.116.198	11-Oct-05/2:23 PM
and is it just me , or is there something just not grammatically correct going into that part. one and two jive but the segway seems off....
Re: Waking at night by Niphredil	INTRANSIT 205.188.116.69	11-Oct-05/2:19 PM
Stanza two: outside/outside the window. one or the other please. AND: IS racing to survive this night /OR another night. that is all.
Re: a comment on In the berth by INTRANSIT	INTRANSIT 205.188.116.198	11-Oct-05/1:36 PM
OMG ! ! ! That's such an obvious mistake I can't believe I missed it!!! Thank you!!!
Re: a comment on "46 million babies a year" by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Stephen Robins 84.13.128.166	11-Oct-05/12:50 PM
That's pretty fucking incisive. What I still don't understand about this cunt God is why he is such a petty minded fucker. This fucking God is a dull cunt - like some kind of busy body housewife - put the table against that wall no not that wall, that wall, it is the will of god that there should be a big table up there with a fucking great big cross on it to symbolise my ultimate sacrifice now fucking set to it and none of your arguing you fucking Protestants of course I want my house to be nice - who wants to fucking live in a whitewashed barn now get some fucking bling on the walls like the Catholics you cunts. As for you fucking Jews lose the fucking dreadlocks you look like my rastifarian children who are all errant stoners.
Re: In the berth by INTRANSIT	Niphredil 192.115.60.89	11-Oct-05/11:32 AM
(however, don't you think that "it's" should be changed to "its", as in Or a freight train passes singing its empty boxcar song; ?)
Re: In the berth by INTRANSIT	Niphredil 192.115.60.89	11-Oct-05/11:31 AM
sorry to repeat previous comments, but I loved it. ;-)
Re: Noble oboe now sings every next saturday evening by ALChemy	Niphredil 192.115.60.89	11-Oct-05/11:29 AM
I liked it. Not for any particular turn of phrase but for the soft dreamlike quality I felt it evoked. But I would get rid of the 'Satellite' bit, not everything has to stay a pure train of thought...
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	Niphredil 192.115.60.89	11-Oct-05/11:13 AM
I don't snub my nose at rhyming poems, quite the contrary. I was basically making a joke and lo! a rational discussion sprang forth! Seriously, I consider the art of writing poetry in rhyme or strict cadence as one that is a distinct intellectual exercise (hell, what poetry isn't? but still) as well as an expression of feeling and emotion. It's an obvious challenge to compress an idea to a pre-determined form (like a sonnet, for instance) and perhaps that is the reason I don't write more in verse, though I love it - I feel that rhymes should fall into place naturally, instead of stilting the poetry itself. That's tremendously hard to pull off correctly.