Re: American Haiku by memorybabe	20-Aug-02/6:04 AM
I think a haiku needs to suggest more than this, which just sounds like a route planner. As an English reader, this means nothing to me.
Re: Untitled by purplestain	20-Aug-02/6:07 AM
This is touching but too personal - this is plainly written straight from the heart without any objectifying distance. We can feel the pain and sincerity but it doesn't really hang together as a poem. Brave though to expose yourself like this.
Re: To You, In Warmer Climes by <~>	20-Aug-02/6:15 AM
This is lovely - intricate, romantic, suggestive. The colour imagery is beautifully evocative. As for 'geometry on the page' - I don't get a sense of it being contrived at all. My only complaint is that the cosiness of the first stanza doesn't really build up to 'mercury' and 'bleeding' of the last stanza. But how seductive those gifts would be....
regarding some deleted poem...	20-Aug-02/6:30 AM
Good tight imagery and a logical pull that keeps the whole together. Reminds me a bit of Blake in its diagrammatic approach.
Re: Dear Ms. Sexton by <{Baba^Yaga}>	20-Aug-02/6:49 AM
Notwithstanding Bachus's rather crazy tirade, I think, Baba-Yaga, that you have stored up some bad Poemranker kharma, especially in your acid comments on Memorybabe's poems. Therefore let me come to turn the wheel...when you stop recycling Tom Waits lyrics, you can start to berate others for their poetic failings.
Re: Secret, Admirer by <~>	20-Aug-02/6:55 AM
This is so sensually evocative - I love this. In fact, I think I love you ZZinnia!
Re: Once Sought by necroscope7	20-Aug-02/6:56 AM
So where were they? Buried with W.H. Davies?
Re: Sugar Coating by nentwined	20-Aug-02/7:03 AM
I like the kick in the face at the end - a real wake-up to the emotionally deluded (like me).
regarding some deleted poem...	20-Aug-02/7:35 AM
No. It's about a lad who surfs in his sleep, is confused by his own abilities and can't even share in the wonder of it because he's unconscious. See?
regarding some deleted poem...	20-Aug-02/7:43 AM
Satanic sleep surfers are the greatest threat to mankind's spiritual survival.
Re: white harvest by <~>	21-Aug-02/1:19 AM
I love the first line, and the deceptive way the poem leads you to think it's going to be about more than an unwillingness to pay bills. It's something we can all understand and it's become heroic! Though I must admit I rifle through my post as soon as it comes in case someone's sent me an impromptu present. They never have.
Re: North by lw_nd	21-Aug-02/1:31 AM
Regret and yearning so often live togetherI especially like the astrological stuff in the last stanza - as if this is what we're all fated to suffer. Existentialist, huh?
Re: Ambiguous Love Poem For A Girl I Once Knew by poetandknowit	21-Aug-02/2:01 AM
I was determined to be annoyed by your stuff as you keep telling em to edit my work in an irritating high-handed manner but... bugger it, I think this is really great. Your self-denying but defiant last stanza breaks the heart.
Re: setting the record straight on April by poetandknowit	21-Aug-02/2:06 AM
This is just trying too hard to be clever and iconoclastic. I know what you mean but...if you sat next to me on the bus and launched into this, I'd move away.
regarding some deleted poem...	21-Aug-02/2:18 AM
What do you mean by counter curve?
regarding some deleted poem...	21-Aug-02/2:37 AM
Sorry, I'm a straight-laced Englishman and I haven't tuned in to your lingo yet - no worries!
regarding some deleted poem...	21-Aug-02/2:55 AM
Well, I'm sorry you didn't like it, but as for the not being an island, bourne stuff...have you never read John Donne? And the Shakespeare reference is deliberate. And and and.... And criticism is fine, but where do you get off being so snotty?