| Re: a comment on Our New Tongue by Christof |
23-Oct-02/6:23 AM |
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Why thank you. This is the oldest thing I have on poemranker, and so it's very gratifying when people like it.
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| Re: Strong by little_angel_maria |
23-Oct-02/6:04 AM |
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But Maria does have a point - it's OK to dislkie someone's poem but people do go a bit crzy with abuse. That's just not necessary. AFter all, a person's only written a poem you don't like, they haven't petrol-bombed your house and drowned your kittens in a vat of teir own urine. But maybe I'm just saying this because Ealing isn't far from my home and I don't want Maria and Blade coming over to whack me.
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| Re: a comment on Brothers and Sisters by bondjedi |
23-Oct-02/1:43 AM |
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In the name of all that's holy... I haven't watched any of that rubbish, and I'm very glad if bloody Diana's in it. Christ, I bet bloody David Beckham is Number 1. I suppose we get the heroes we deserve...
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| Re: a comment on Brothers and Sisters by bondjedi |
23-Oct-02/1:36 AM |
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Did they work out how to do it? That's why they wanted Newton, no doubt. A man of his brain must surely have known how to make insects out of cheese.
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| Re: Mystery on the Bridge by vulcan |
23-Oct-02/1:35 AM |
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This is very tender and I like the rhetorical flourish of the last couplet.
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| Re: The Dreamer by Nicholas Jones |
23-Oct-02/1:33 AM |
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Good to see another sonnet from you - you handled it well in 'The Canvassers' and also in this. This is more Keatsian as well in its self-analysis and fear.
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| Re: The Canvassers by Nicholas Jones |
23-Oct-02/1:30 AM |
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I like the sense of compromise that comes over in this. I wonder if it should be 'On streets' not 'By streets' - do you say that doors are 'by' streets? Dunno. I'm a pedant. I like the 'metaphysical concrete dreams'.
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| Re: a comment on Stockport by Nicholas Jones |
23-Oct-02/1:26 AM |
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I knew I'd got that word from someone famous. Thanks for identifying my sources! Already an ex-girlfriend of mine is sporting combats in All Saints stylee - I don't know whether she's ahead of a trend or years behind one, though. I think your attitude towards Stockport is like mine towards Slough (substitute McVities factory for Mars factory) - one of extreme protectiveness.
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| Re: a comment on she wonders, by <~> |
22-Oct-02/6:31 AM |
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The heart has such an annoyingly loud voice
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| Re: she wonders, by <~> |
22-Oct-02/4:59 AM |
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I've come back to this. Will he dare? He would have to, wouldn't he? Or what kind of a man is he?
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| Re: a comment on A love of the midlands by ==Doylum |
22-Oct-02/4:54 AM |
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Isn't that a song? I've been to Shrewsbury but I've never been to me.
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| Re: Stockport by Nicholas Jones |
22-Oct-02/4:51 AM |
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Excellent detail about the fashions of the 90s, and a great mordant ending. This is one of your toppermost.
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| Re: a comment on A love of the midlands by ==Doylum |
22-Oct-02/1:21 AM |
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You've put me off the birds. I don't touch them now. I feel physically sick every time I see one. Now for me it's all about my existence as a lifeless husk of a man with no passions or pleasures except the mastication of cardboard.
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| Re: A love of the midlands by ==Doylum |
22-Oct-02/1:18 AM |
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Where are you coming from? Telford should be European City of Culture. It's got bridges, after all. And a tree.
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| Re: requiem for an ex-girlfriend by natalie |
22-Oct-02/1:15 AM |
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I like th fact that the jealousy is still the most prevalent emotion, even at the end. But it's mixed in with shick, guilt and regret as well. That's a lot to cover in a short space.
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| Re: a comment on One liners for the ladies by INTRANSIT |
22-Oct-02/1:10 AM |
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Don't you hide behind the smokescreen of my typographical error, you rapscallion, you know I have you on the run.
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| Re: a comment on Do Swans Get Jealous? (#2) by Christof |
21-Oct-02/9:03 AM |
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Sorry, I didn't like it anymore. I expunged it. I erased it. I threw it away like a spare three fingered glove. I was ruthless.
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| Re: a comment on One liners for the ladies by INTRANSIT |
21-Oct-02/8:40 AM |
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That's very true. The bees produce honey having fed on clover. Hmm. I should've noticed that!
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| Re: Hedgehog's Dilemma by Shin-Bojangles |
21-Oct-02/8:06 AM |
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Er, what? I'm baffled. Perhaps you had to be there.
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| Re: a comment on Hunt by cobalt |
21-Oct-02/7:39 AM |
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