Re: I, Ann Boleyn by http://mulberryfairy	1-Aug-03/2:22 AM
Holy monkey pants. Did you know Anne Boleyn had six fingers on her left hand? I think that's worse than hairy legs. I love the decline into reality at the end of this poem. The calluses of stanza 1 are explained very nicely.
Re: Oxywarmonger by poetandknowit	1-Aug-03/2:16 AM
Please don't take this the wrong way when I say that the comments on this poem are as entertaining as the poem itself. Not only did you spark off deabte, you instituted a whole war. No wonder your poem's so paranoid. For me, the satire is a bit too broad, and bit too much of a blunderbuss. I prefer something a little sharper and subtler (but fuck it's hard to do, I've tried myself and never done it). This pokes fun at something that deserves tit, though. I like it when I look in (very occasionally now) and find something startling from an old hand.
Re: a comment on Do Swans Get Jealous? (#2) by Christof	25-Jul-03/1:23 AM
I have no idea. I must be some kind of black hole or something
Re: Yellow Star by Mr Pig	22-Jul-03/4:49 AM
I have some sympathy with Horus's point. It seems that the struggle in the Middle East at the moment is the result of the Jewish people having single-mindedly failed to learn from their own history of the last 50-60 years. Yes the Holocaust was an absolutely foul, vile, depraved event in history - and let's not imagine that the Germans were alone in their views, there were plenty of proto-Nazis in Britain, France, Italy, Spain (and the US - the KKK) who also had blood on their hands. However, I think the point of history is not to labour one event, one people's history, for the purpose of eliciting merely pity or horror (or, for that matter, Academy Awards). The point is to learn from it, to move on, to try to make the world progress in some way. Both Horus and Mr Pig have talked with some pride of their backgrounds, have distinguished different strains of identity, different ethnic groups. Everybody needs to know where they come from, but an obsessive attention to ethnic detail, to the rights and wrongs of past members of particular groups generations ago, is where all the trouble starts. What does it matter if your great-great-grandfather was a black Scotsman from Wales? It matters because it affects how you live now, how you understand the world; it should not be used as some kind of badge of honour. I think a person deserves special treatment not because of who their parents were, but because of what they do with their lives. Racial division is the biggest problem the human race faces, because it threatens to destroy us. A small historical fact to add to the German/Jew argument - a lot of right-wing aggression towards the Jews was centred around a book called 'The Protocols of the Zionist Elders', which purported to have been produced by rabbis and leading Jews and which spoke of a conspiracy to take over the world. It was a forgery produced by European anti-Semites in the late 19th century. I don't think Hitler's rise to power is quite so easily explicable by the ambitions of the Jews. Anti-Semitism has a far longer and ignobler history than that, and you have to remember that Germany had been shafted in the Treay of Versailles by the very unJewish (and also fairly anti-Semitic in places) British, US and French governments.
Re: Paean by Terence	17-Jul-03/7:49 AM
'she is my pearl' maybe? Otherwise it soudns like the Lord is your pearl, given the uncertainties between 2nd and 3rd person
Re: beyond sences by calilegzzz	17-Jul-03/7:48 AM
This is very Yoda-like. I don't think I believe I word of it.
Re: Pretzel by daryash-koh	17-Jul-03/4:23 AM
I like this, but I don't understand why it's called Pretzel. Nevertheless... I think a bit of bile is good, dactylic or otherwise
Re: Windmill by the Sea by Jeremi B. Handrinos	16-Jul-03/8:09 AM
Yep, I'd like to hear the music to this.
Re: Igor's inspiration by zzinnia66	15-Jul-03/6:15 AM
I have to say, without the background info I was a bit baffled, but the last line rocks - a reference to their seemingly impossible flight?
Re: Acoustic by zzinnia66	15-Jul-03/6:13 AM
Guitar technicalities made poetry - I like it. Perfectly condensed.
Re: A Brand New Eye by EAger to Offend	14-Jul-03/9:17 AM
I like the last stanza -'mundane hours by the bushel' is great - this is unusually abstract and philosophical (but given stanza 2 maybe that's the point) - very interesting Thank you for your comments on my poems. You're very kind and I'm glad you liked them 'cos they were the last flwoering of a creative spurt that's dried up a bit - I'm hoping more will come. If some damn fool publisher ever decides to make a book of mine, I'll send you a copy. Don't hold your breath though...
Re: a comment on Pilgrimage by Christof	4-Jul-03/3:26 AM
That's the point!
Re: I'll be your Gimp by GAY AS FU*K	2-Jul-03/7:12 AM
Ian Curtis was maried. was he gay as well? I didn't know that. No wonder he felt a bit confused about things. maybe he was a chocolate pimp. He would'bve hated Erasure though, would probably have been more of a Pet Shop Boy.
Re: i gotta sign by helpfulpoems	2-Jul-03/7:10 AM
Thank you and good night
Re: a comment on Glassblowers by Christof	24-Jun-03/3:27 AM
Is that good or bad?
Re: a comment on The Gecko, and the Italian book collector by horus8	23-Jun-03/6:28 AM
Mr Baba Horus Yaga, do you know that has really touched me. You know I've always thought that you're a kick-ass poet sometimes lacking in discipline, and sometimes I don't get your stuff, but I also know that you're not heartless, that you feel it and do it for real, that you're always trying to make something new and fack me if that's not what poetry needs. I know creation is your life and you've got the guts to live it on your own terms and I understand your frustration with people who think it's a hobby. Well, the best of all bastard luck to you, especially of you're going to try the sestina, 'cos that's the kind of mutant freakoid form that scares me right off. It really means something to me that you appreciate what I've done, mainly because, hell, I know you don't give praise lightly, and also because I think you've put your finger o what I'm trying to do. All power to your elbow, my man. Now enough of this mutual hugging, it'll make us sappy and moist. Go well, old boy.
Re: The Gecko, and the Italian book collector by horus8	19-Jun-03/5:45 AM
So you're purposely keeping me out of the top 15, huh? Well that's just typical. But hey, I don't begrudge it, not after the things you wrote on my poems the other day. I also like geckos, so keep your place in the top 15 and good luck and thank you.
Re: a comment on Glassblowers by Christof	19-Jun-03/5:36 AM
Hey, I'm no Mr Pig, I was here long before him. But thanks anyway!
Re: a comment on Mummy by Cali	9-Jun-03/8:09 AM
It's not often I side with Dark Angel, but he's right. Dead people might be admitted to heaven, but they don't become angels. Angels are the original inhabitants of God's kingdom who existed before the creation of Man. See Milton's 'Paradise Lost' for the full story, or any other book which pushes such whimsical bilgewater.
Re: a comment on The Order Of Things by Mr Pig	9-Jun-03/8:02 AM
'Love the atmosphere', that's supposed to say.