regarding some deleted poem...	15-Oct-06/1:49 PM
The subtitle is funny - a lose-lose predicament. Aparently, the narrator is an ingested bird, missing his nest, though I don't know what a spud has to do with it. But then Verse 3 escapes me. Or maybe it's a boy who threw a spud at a bird nest. Confused, and sorry if I give away too much.
Re: Wry Edward's wry smile by oddgreenout	15-Oct-06/2:05 PM
Limericks usually march along with sing-song rhythm in addition to the rhyming scheme. What is a hawlk? A few too many commas, it seems, and a meaning covered in unusual language.
Re: Tidal by helenwales	15-Oct-06/2:12 PM
Somehow the rigid structure of haiku does not jive with stream-of-consciousness writing. Just holding 5-7-5 most of the time is not haiku. I'd make it all one stanza and let it flow.
Re: Let's Grovel For Jesus And Fight The Naughty Satan! by Sing4Jesus!	15-Oct-06/2:20 PM
I assume that all these Jesus poems are satire on Christianity. Perhaps you see hypocrisy in the church and wish to expound your rebellion. Ironically, Jesus did the same thing. “Do not according to their works,” he said of the religious leaders, “for they say, and do not.” Matthew 23:3. Many other passages like this.
Re: Work by half.italian	17-Oct-06/12:56 PM
"Loophole" is one word. A bit wordy: "This time I watched a movie that reminded me of life It woke me from boredom" could be "A movie woke me from boredom."
Re: Pope Benedict And The Limbo Problem by Edna Sweetlove	17-Oct-06/12:58 PM
Already a 10! It will soon work "its" way to the best list.
Re: A DANCE OF NO TUNE by stevopoet	19-Oct-06/11:43 AM
"Heaping up dance on my hips" - good line. But starting every line with an "ing" word is a bit boring. "Shaking ones head" takes the "me" out of it. Is English your second language? If so, not bad.
Re: connect the dots by daniella	19-Oct-06/11:46 AM
Ok, I looked at the site, but didn't stay there long. If you have a political statment to make in a poem, it would be better to make it, I think, rather than just referung to a URL.
Re: Smalltalkers by D. $ Fontera	19-Oct-06/11:50 AM
Sounds like what my father called "beating artound the bush." Not very well organized.
regarding some deleted poem...	19-Oct-06/11:52 AM
Has a nice rattle of words. Drop the last line, I say. But you probably have some reason for it.
Re: Slur by MacFrantic	20-Oct-06/3:42 PM
Nothingness and everything? Have at it.
Re: Kill Criminals In The Name Of JESUS! by Sing4Jesus!	23-Oct-06/4:17 PM
I wish you would enter discussion on whether these Jesus poems are satire or if you really like this stuff. If you mean it, then you've progressed about an inch backward from the Crusades.
Re: Canada by PodPoet	23-Oct-06/5:35 PM
You may not be from Canada, but I've been to most of these places, and it sounds like you have too. What I miss is some application, something beyond rhyme and reninisce. The last line especially needs something more specific than "all" and "awe."
Re: Epilogue by MacFrantic	23-Oct-06/5:38 PM
It could be the end of a great collective work, of which mine is the Prologue, and the middle is all of Poemranker.
Re: # 2 by Lifeboatman	24-Oct-06/6:09 PM
I don’t pretened to follow this; I suspect that you and your lover are the only ones who do. I do like some of the lines: “Must we to Time's fall fall?” “Yet go gently, never in haste. Deny not what you desire to taste. Then shall glee befall us.” “daffodils” “bouquets”
Re: The Pit’s Bottom by Dovina	26-Oct-06/1:02 PM
This piece of doggerel is in response to “Crappy” by Dr. Nick, DND, Doctor of Non-Divinity, Pastor of the Michigan Church of Atheism.
Re: Consider this by MacFrantic	27-Oct-06/2:26 PM
Don’t “think twice about God or the Devil. We are fragments in a sea of ineffable words.” I feel that way often. Sometimes I think it’s impossible to talk about God or the Devil without resorting to analogy or metaphor. Some say that if anthropomorphic language is all we have in these matters it becomes added evidence for their non-existence. I disagree but see their point. Some good thoughts here, but could be more poetic, and at least called “prose poem.”
Re: Blue, Black & White by oneglove	27-Oct-06/2:31 PM
Reads like a song. Call it a lyric and give it a tune.
Re: Still by half.italian	31-Oct-06/10:45 AM
I relate to scarce memories, ones that feel like they responded to fate. I don't believe in fate, but I know the feeling. I don't like the idea of "correct tastes." The Eiffel tower has an appealing shape, but it may not be a "correct taste" to everyone; if fact it is not.
Re: 311006 txt to russia by daniella	31-Oct-06/10:50 AM
Yes, I have been spoken to by such voices. A less cryptic title might dispell criticism.