Re: a comment on Arson by Roisin	Roisin 80.3.64.12	25-Jun-05/8:12 PM
What matter? Are there other books except dictionaries? Perhaps you could throw a couple my way (preferably not in the face or groinal area)
Re: a comment on Submit by Bankrupt_Word_Clerk	Bankrupt_Word_Clerk 69.231.22.69	25-Jun-05/2:18 PM
I spent four days in a town next to the Great Orme headland named Llandudno. I recall walking on the stony beaches after 'gentlmen, time please' was called at the bar. The night was soft and relaxing, and the girl was too. I don't remember HER name, but I do remember the sound of the birds on the headland calling into the night.
Re: Submit by Bankrupt_Word_Clerk	some deleted user 81.69.23.196	25-Jun-05/12:44 PM
>>softer than a night in Wales on the Irish Sea.<< ...Where? Unless some subtle joke escapes me? There are nice moments, like line 3 and 4 and 8. But this really calls for good metrics, line 6 jars in that respect. And I don't like the frequent grindings to a halt.
Re: a comment on Arson by Roisin	some deleted user 81.69.23.196	25-Jun-05/10:54 AM
Don't evade the matter, Roisin. And do consult a few other books besides dictionaries.
Re: a comment on A Righteous Prayer by Dovina	some deleted user 81.69.23.196	25-Jun-05/10:48 AM
I so agree. Although I do not find the grammar in this poem bad at all.
Re: Submit by Bankrupt_Word_Clerk	Dovina 69.175.32.185	25-Jun-05/7:23 AM
"ears peaking through hair softer than a night in Wales on the Irish Sea." The good stuff of love poems. If only the rest matched it.
Re: FAT BALLET- PAS DE DEUX by andrew barnes	Dovina 69.175.32.185	25-Jun-05/7:16 AM
Good, except for long-limbed pulley.
Re: a comment on A Righteous Prayer by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.185	25-Jun-05/6:56 AM
As I was saying, the grammar is not bad in my opinion. In poetry, we often make the grammar awkward for the sake of ryythm or flow. May I ask why you have brought up bad grammar? More importantly, your first comment shows that you do not know what this is about.
Re: a comment on Arson by Roisin	Roisin 80.3.64.12	25-Jun-05/5:19 AM
Hmmm...how can I be sure of your age? Or in fact your gender? This internet business makes it impossible to prove either (except maybe by web cam) but even then there are no certaintys. How strange the world has become... this argument, be it amusing has no place in the real world. Face to face it, I am 22 and a female and not lonely...maybe think too much and am a little unemployed and hedonistic at present with a slightly messy love life but a pedar, I think not. (I am now dribbling though at the possibility that you buy into my deception and will continue to give me masturbatory fodder)
Re: a comment on Arson by Roisin	Roisin 80.3.64.12	25-Jun-05/5:11 AM
A pederest is defined as a male. If you would like to accuse me of being a kiddy fiddler then consult the dictionary once again.
Re: a comment on cup-cake by cpill	cpill 81.179.102.177	25-Jun-05/1:40 AM
I guess its not very linier, more felt than understood.
Re: a comment on Arson by Roisin	Bankrupt_Word_Clerk 69.231.22.69	25-Jun-05/12:47 AM
claiming to be female is exactly what a pederast would do in your position. This is the very thing that now makes me sure you are some sweaty, beer-swilling, male cyberstalker of boys. If you are sure enough about my gender to keep courting me, then at least make sure of my age, puppy.
Re: a comment on How Well I See by Blue Magpie	Bankrupt_Word_Clerk 69.231.22.69	25-Jun-05/12:41 AM
I'm sorry. I was actually just typing the exact phrase that was on the television in the other room as I was reading your poem.
Re: Eagle by Mr Pig	Blue Magpie 212.205.251.23	24-Jun-05/11:17 PM
Actually eagles try not to shadow over prey until after they have got their talons into it because the shadow is a warning to the prey.
Re: cup-cake by cpill	Blue Magpie 212.205.251.23	24-Jun-05/11:15 PM
Not anything I can enjoy, sorry.
Re: a comment on A Righteous Prayer by Dovina	Blue Magpie 212.205.251.23	24-Jun-05/11:09 PM
Why on earth should bad grammar be acceptable in poetry, I would say the opposite, as poetry is about the most beautiful use of the language bad grammar should be less acceptable in poetry, at least poetry that aspires to be good poetry.
Re: a comment on How Well I See by Blue Magpie	Blue Magpie 212.205.251.23	24-Jun-05/11:05 PM
Yes there is an ear in hearing and an I sight the English language gives me such delight I think you are pushing for the comment though.
Re: a comment on Arson by Roisin	some deleted user 81.69.23.196	24-Jun-05/7:56 PM
>> Well, I'm female so definitely not a pederast<< (while I'm at it, allow me to rewrite the line in comprehensible English) You yourself may not be one, but don't take your gender as a dead certainty.
Re: a comment on A Righteous Prayer by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.185	24-Jun-05/7:49 PM
It's about the way I ask.
Re: a comment on Arson by Roisin	Roisin 80.3.64.12	24-Jun-05/7:17 PM
Well, I'm female so definately not a pederest...Why do you think I may be making a sexual play for you...perhaps spurred on by your seductive word play. I am not lonely, maybe bitter but not because of 'poemranker.com'. I am not attempting to be bigger than myself and do not see how you can accuse me of such a thing- explain as you will? I am either as big as I appear or wrong- I allow you to disagree with any logical fallacies within my argument but slander of this type is meaningless. (Yes I hope I am self-possessed-blimey if I was possessed by any other being I may have cause to worry).