Re: Awesome Heir by Shin-Bojangles	22-Aug-02/8:49 AM
I didn't even see the film. How ignorant of me.
Re: Awesome Heir by Shin-Bojangles	22-Aug-02/8:23 AM
Just out of curiosity... is there one hell of a big Tolkien-loving contingent on poemranker? I never got into the habit after reading The Hobbit and now I seem to be missing out on something. Aragorn for instance - what?
Re: The Siren by 1Sapphire1	22-Aug-02/8:04 AM
This is sweetly regretful. Perhaps 'blind' should be 'deaf' just to reinforce the unity of your central image? But it doesn't really matter. Your final two lines are the best because of their colloquialism.
Re: drum circle by <~>	22-Aug-02/7:55 AM
I also wonder if this is a bit ragged around the edges, but the concrete section in the middle is beuatifully handled.
Re: Salt by <~>	22-Aug-02/7:52 AM
Remind me not to get on your bad side. This is great and full of venom.
Re: Tennesee Waterfall by razorgrin	22-Aug-02/7:10 AM
Hey, you've got me to thank for getting you on the 15 best poems list!
Re: Untitled by unknown	22-Aug-02/6:34 AM
All your poems are on the same subject, using the same imagery and following the same present-tense progressionless structure. Try something different!
Re: Tennesee Waterfall by razorgrin	22-Aug-02/6:30 AM
You are the mistress of the humorous haiku.
Re: Sleepy Geek by razorgrin	22-Aug-02/4:06 AM
This is very funny. I know exactly how you feel. We obviously have the same neighbours.
Re: Sunshine by alexander	22-Aug-02/3:28 AM
That's a very sanguine/innocent response to having your roof blown off - I like it.
Re: The Precious Thing by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	22-Aug-02/2:46 AM
Bizarrely, I find this quite moving as well as funny.
Re: would i be considered crazy by silvertongueddevil	22-Aug-02/2:32 AM
Sorry guys, i don't know why my computer sent that four times....
Re: Dear Ms. Sexton by <{Baba^Yaga}>	22-Aug-02/2:27 AM
So it is song lyrics? Well funny. I read that, I hear the rhythms, I hear the 'crash,boom,bam', the carnivals and lemonades and Doctors and it all sounds in my head like Tom Waits. It would be interesting to hear you actually sing it to pick up on the Buckley and Cohen slant.
Re: Jericho by goldfish	22-Aug-02/2:08 AM
This is a very traditional poem on a very traditional subject. That said, the rhyming is really good - totally unforced, especially in the stanza discussing the marble and the rose - and the metre is flawlessy adhered to. I'm not so sure about the syntactical inversion ''Tis fair to in a brothel hide' though.It's 1798 all over again....
Re: Intense Irrational Realities by Venus	22-Aug-02/2:02 AM
This is erotic as hell. You're a sly one, Venus. I like it.
Re: would i be considered crazy by silvertongueddevil	22-Aug-02/1:57 AM
Definitely crazy but it makes a good poem. Some of the language in the second stanza is a bit stilted ('re-engage my interest in food' especially) but the idea is so compelling that it wins out.
Re: would i be considered crazy by silvertongueddevil	22-Aug-02/1:56 AM
Definitely crazy but it makes a good poem. Some of the language in the second stanza is a bit stilted ('re-engage my interest in food' especially) but the idea is so compelling that it wins out.
Re: would i be considered crazy by silvertongueddevil	22-Aug-02/1:56 AM
Definitely crazy but it makes a good poem. Some of the language in the second stanza is a bit stilted ('re-engage my interest in food' especially) but the idea is so compelling that it wins out.
Re: would i be considered crazy by silvertongueddevil	22-Aug-02/1:55 AM
Definitely crazy but it makes a good poem. Some of the language in the econd stanza is a bit stilted ('re-engage my interest in food' especially) but the idea is so compelling that it wins out.
Re: Dear Ms. Sexton by <{Baba^Yaga}>	22-Aug-02/1:40 AM
Bleeding hell, this has nothing to do with Memorybabe - I just thought that, while you might not like her poem very much, there was no need to be so brutal. Just who exactly do you think you are? But now I find out you think you're at least three people, and frankly I can't be arsed to deal with your semi-literate Roseanne Barr-like affectations.