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some deleted user replying on Unclean by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 4:40 PM
Not incorrect phrasing; incorrect quoting. Like that even more.
woodstock20000 replying on Between the Edges by woodstock20000 16 Jun 2005, 4:40 PM
Awwww. Thanks... From what I can tell, you're opinion is held very highly here, so I consider your... word, a great complement.
some deleted user on A love apple's just a tomato (edit of "Uprooting") by fevriere 16 Jun 2005, 4:36 PM
Brackets are irritating, last two lines are delightful.
some deleted user replying on Unclean by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 4:32 PM
'for Allah's good' may be an incorrect phrasing, but that's exactly why I like it. Keep it in please.
Dovina replying on Unclean by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 3:39 PM
Please see zodiac’s explanation below on how different Islamic culture is from Mohammed’s teaching. We are dealing with a male-centered society where women are dirt! I have looked at your suggested line edits and, while I find no overt grammatical errors or ugly structure, your opinion on this is as good as mine. Your changes would simplify the reading, making it more like an essay, less like a poem. Your point about trying to make Allah better by casting the woman out would be a good point if that were what I meant. (It’s the same point zodiac makes below.) The fact that both of you took it that way means that I might want to rephrase. Surely, the husband did not think Allah needs improvement. He probably thought that anything done to respect or adore Allah would be a good thing – “for Allah’s good.” I think I’ll change the last line to “to cast her out in Allah’s name.” A interesting thing about both Islam and Christianity is that the founder’s teachings have little impact the practices of those religions. Some of the churches are beginning to see that Jesus’ teachings actually have value as they are written, and some of the Islamic teachers are beginning to do the same with Mohammed’s words.
Bankrupt_Word_Clerk replying on Sisyphus' wife by Bankrupt_Word_Clerk 16 Jun 2005, 1:42 PM
bitches is the right word. More than one bitch in this brew. maybe bitches'?
Dovina on Between the Edges by woodstock20000 16 Jun 2005, 12:47 PM
Good!
Dovina on Impeccable mess by sk8rs_rule_all 16 Jun 2005, 12:44 PM
"impeccable mess" says a lot. The rest of the poem wanders.
Dovina on Sisyphus' wife by Bankrupt_Word_Clerk 16 Jun 2005, 12:36 PM
The first verse makes a clever point, but could do so in half the words. Lines 3-5 are almost repeats. Verse 2 is good up to "tryingto" and "bitches (bitch's) brew"
Dovina replying on Unclean by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 12:08 PM
Again, thanks for the comment. I am changing the “robbers” line; see above comments.
Dovina replying on Unclean by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 12:07 PM
Although the story was told as true, I suspect that the teller may have exaggerated the part about making her look like she’s been robbed. I think, from what you say and what I have read about Islamic societies, (and I’m talking about strict Islam like it was in Afghanistan before the war), that the robbed-woman image would not pass. I’ll change the poem to have her wounded as if from an accident of some kind. I don’t know why you laugh at “disgrace” in Stanza 2. Humiliation and a feeling of being disgraced are usual parts of rape-trauma. I was pointing out that for this woman those feelings are a far lesser concern that her husband’s discovery that she’d been raped. See my answer above for "cast her out for Allah's good"
Bankrupt_Word_Clerk on When the muse calls. by darby pyn 16 Jun 2005, 11:58 AM
inhibitions instead of inabitions.. because inabitions is not a word. a great word instead of inabitions would be inanitions. inanitions means exhaustion, as from lack of nourishment or vitality. This would make the next line about starving flow.
Bankrupt_Word_Clerk replying on Eulogy for a Poet by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 11:52 AM
sorry.. just meant that I like those lines.
Bankrupt_Word_Clerk replying on Sisyphus' wife by Bankrupt_Word_Clerk 16 Jun 2005, 11:49 AM
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp Thank you good sir. It does require an additional s.
Dovina replying on Eulogy for a Poet by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 11:25 AM
Yep, that's what it says.
Dovina replying on Swoon by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 11:24 AM
Thanks for the comments and for taking a suggestion on commenting more.
Bankrupt_Word_Clerk on Eulogy for a Poet by Dovina 16 Jun 2005, 11:24 AM
Frost in his belly fire in his heart
Bankrupt_Word_Clerk on I AM WHO I AM by blackthoughtz1 16 Jun 2005, 10:59 AM
paradigm best explains you? A pattern or model best explains you? huh.. strange. then you say you are outside of the box. cognitively dissonant. hmm.
Bankrupt_Word_Clerk on Don't be gay by wCUNTw 16 Jun 2005, 10:54 AM
it rhymes, so it must be true.
Dan garcia-Black on quick by <~> 16 Jun 2005, 8:50 AM
A bit o' depression, eh?