regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/9:14 AM
Strange how men who indulge in women are quite accepted by society but women who turn the table get a bad name. Never really worked that one out...
Re: i would have you by silvertongueddevil	5-Sep-02/9:50 AM
I like this a lot - very suggestive and poised
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/9:54 AM
I don't think crows migrate in England. They just always seem to be there. Cawing. Croaking. Crapping. Horrible.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/9:56 AM
It's not just the preserve of mdern poets either - read Wodsworth's Prelude and tell me that's not a novel. Fantastic poetry, of course.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/10:09 AM
I would love to join you in the cahtroom but the madness of my PC means that when i click on 'chat' all i get is a blank screen. How frustrating. And I like Mr Hughes too
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/10:12 AM
See you soon Mrs God. Give my regards to the husband.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/10:19 AM
His 'Birthday Letters' - psothumously to Plath - are fantastic, as are his early collections - Lupercal, Crow especially. Avoid his Laureate poetry (collected Raincharm for the Duchy) - awful stuff. A big new biography has been published by Faber over here - very good. The man was a bleak and leathery genius.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/10:23 AM
I'm off too, chaps, it's been a pleasure
Re: Evensong by Nicholas Jones	6-Sep-02/2:39 AM
I prefer nothingness to belief in a myth. Or rather, I believe in humanity and the universe rather than an external god. But this poem is good because it raises this debate; it is individual and provocative.
Re: Evensong by Nicholas Jones	6-Sep-02/3:20 AM
Black black it's all black.
Re: Remembrance by dragonfly	6-Sep-02/3:25 AM
I like the regretful tone of this, but 'Like if it were yesterday' is ungrammatical - 'As if it were yesterday' would be right. 'Handing me' is curious as well - handing you something? Touching you? It's quite a nice phrase.
Re: Life's Great Irony by Tascobar	6-Sep-02/7:34 AM
This is quite funny. Yep.
Re: School (a sonnet) by Nicholas Jones	6-Sep-02/7:46 AM
I think we'll have to agree to disagree. School isn't perfect, but the alternative is mass illiteracy and the end of civilisation. Or something.
Re: purple by youngweirdo	6-Sep-02/7:48 AM
Turtle. That's the closest I can get. But really, who cares?
regarding some deleted poem...	6-Sep-02/7:53 AM
I'm afraid my comment will be in plain old English - but I like this, it is both zesty and lusty and therefore thoroughly to be recommended. Yum!
Re: Forbidden Love by beakism	6-Sep-02/7:59 AM
Normally I quite like bathos but the last line here is just a step too far. But this is pretty darn good
Re: purple by youngweirdo	6-Sep-02/8:01 AM
Belive me I'm not trying to bring the blackness to your life Doylum. But I can't help it if the overarching darkness of life is so bleakly apparent today. Perhaps it is the end.
Re: The Writing Life by poetandknowit	10-Sep-02/1:02 AM
Very funny, a real snapshot of life as we all too disturbingly know it
regarding some deleted poem...	10-Sep-02/1:08 AM
I can't share other people's enthusiasm for this. It is well put and pithy and everything, but the implied superiority in the author's attitude leaves a nasty taste in my mouth. This is mean-spirited and arch and smug. And this 'poeme' nonsense really begins to grate after you've read more than two or three Dark Angel things. You are very self-satisfied aren't you?
Re: while you are away on the islands by poetandknowit	10-Sep-02/6:39 AM
I quite like this, but you seem to lose grip of your rhythms towards the end - the last line just clunks a little bit. I think it needs to be shorter.