Re: a comment on To Making Do by Dovina	23-May-05/11:23 AM
If you identify with the male character in this story and feel lorded over by the female character, then please realize that freedom to play with lonely time is to some the freedom to die alone with cancer. To others it’s having lived 52 years with Spina Bifida, beating the odds, and wondering how many more. To others its just being such a jerk of a woman nobody wants you. So if you feel oppressed over exes, divorces, loves gone and so many bills and working hours you can’t keep up, then look up, Lord Garcia-Black, things could be worse. By the way, if I felt lorded over by a poet, I would not be so kind as to vote 8.
Re: a comment on To Making Do by Dovina	20-May-05/4:32 PM
You're probably right.
Re: a comment on Blue Executioner by Caducus	20-May-05/4:30 PM
That's like moving away from America because some people abuse democracy. Sure we have a few characters who regularly give a 10 combined with a comment that means zero. And we have revenge voting - 1 for 1, and thank-you voting - 10 for 10. And we have a few who give a 10 to certain individuals regardless of their poem, even if it is intended as worthless jest. After you've been here a while, you might suddenly find yourself on the Best list. From there on it gets ugly. But you can see there's no more reason to join the bogus voting crowd than there is to stop voting.
Re: a comment on Blue Executioner by Caducus	20-May-05/1:16 PM
And I once received a rockmage 10, which I consider as bogus as the zeros. Without an explanation, a vote is worthless in my sordid opinion.
Re: a comment on Ransom by windyone	20-May-05/1:10 PM
No, really! It's a good question and one you should answer. I don't see how any captive or seized property is redeemed by paying money or complying with other demands. And DoubleU's revision below is perfect in its first verse. From there it slides a bit. But I think you need to pay closer attention to the comments. I'll admit that the votes you got on this are very low, mine included, and I'm beginning to see you might be a better poet than we first thought, so please ransom yourself with some thoughtful answers to DoubleU and Cristof.
Re: a comment on Blue Executioner by Caducus	20-May-05/12:36 PM
Don't worry about rockmage. His voting average is 5.6 on all of his 2637 votes, but of his most recent 500 votes, all have been zeros except 4. I don't know what's come over him, but if we keep jabbing, maybe he'll break silence and tell us.
Re: I Remembered, Upon Waking by Alizarin_Crimson	20-May-05/11:56 AM
I hate to disturb a perfectly symmetrical voting pattern, so I'll just say that it's still a pretty good poem and better with the changes and just can't figure out rackmage these days.
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	19-May-05/6:17 PM
I have already given my interpretation of the poem. Either you did not read it or you consider in inadequate. In either case it is what I was thinking when I wrote it. To say that nobody, not even me, can say for sure what my poems mean, is only partly true. I have a meaning in mind when I write them, sometimes two or more intentionally ambiguous meanings, but that does not prevent people from finding other meanings.
Re: a comment on To Making Do by Dovina	19-May-05/6:08 PM
Not sure what you mean by compositor(i)al harmony or harmony of the old-fashioned kind. I'll admit to personal nostalgia in this that may be understandibly nonunderstandazble. Guess I'm hoping for a few snagged commonalities here and there.
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	19-May-05/4:16 PM
The question makes perfect nonsense as worded, at least to anyone operating on a cognitive level above that of mollusk. I personally think peas have it all over mollusks, particularly in remaining on this planet and not trying to wander all over various worlds, not realizing this is the only one we get. Even while you mock the logical process with such ridiculum, I shall answer, hoping that for a change you will see the matter in earthly reality. An interpretation is a possibility when it is a possible meaning of the poem. Of course that makes almost any interpretation a possibility. Some make more sense than others, but Hallmark’s is not so far out of reason that it in not as possible interpretation. Such a simple answer seems unworthy of saying.
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	19-May-05/3:32 PM
No hysteria here. I love it when you try to be “more kindly.” “What does it mean for an interpretation of a poem to be a possibility?” Since the question makes little sense as worded, I assume you are picking at my words above, “it’s a possibility,” in referring to Hallmark’s interpretation. You’re probably asking how an interpretation can be a possible outcome in the real world. No, that doesn’t make sense either. Alright, unless you’re quibbling over some link between the words “interpretation” and “possibility” then I give up.
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	19-May-05/3:04 PM
Of course that’s what you would mean by such a question. My simple explanation of Hallmark’s interpretation is not rigorous enough, is it? You want symbols applied to each element of the proposition, a truth table, and who know what all. And you state your desire as a professor would to a student, as if I have no choice but to comply. I’m sorry, but I’m already yawning, which we shall assign the letter Y. . . .
Re: I Remembered, Upon Waking by Alizarin_Crimson	19-May-05/12:52 PM
A good idea. I think it would be better to leave "me" out of it after the first two verses.
Re: Blue Executioner by Caducus	19-May-05/12:37 PM
How about "Moving to the light"? Strange how rockmage votes, and how often.
Re: Transition by INTRANSIT	19-May-05/12:29 PM
I always wondered how to get seven beats in the second line. Now I know.
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	19-May-05/12:01 PM
“Modal” is an ambiguous word to use in this way. I presume you are delirious to see how I will affirm the logical qualification in the proposition that makes it possible, necessary, contingent, etc. But the word could also show your concern over my mood or emotional tranquility, which tender thought is much appreciated. The poem is more far-fetched, judging from the comments than I thought it was. I wanted to say that I was struck with a similarity between worker bees and some women I know who love the nest (house or hive) more than anything else it seems. Hallmark gives it another twist with the girls school (nest) and a girl who fears to leave its familiarity. Eventually she has to leave and go to work, but she wants most to return.
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	19-May-05/11:38 AM
Sorry, but our major difference is still over your insistence on: “the cerebral stuff makes the noncerebral stuff (emotional stuff) possible.” If that were true we could sort out all of our emotional differences logically and then proceed to a wonderful life.
Re: a comment on The Awesome One by ingwa	17-May-05/2:21 PM
I would not use the Old English "thee" unless you use that language all the way through. "Causes a skip of the heart" should be "Cause . . " "The astounding things surround" should probably be "surrounding"
Re: Bush Fire by ingwa	17-May-05/2:14 PM
You seem to know what your are talking about, but the presentation is lacking. Description lacks color, the ending is not provocative. For example on the last verse: Always the risk An act of God Always new Never expected
Re: The Awesome One by ingwa	17-May-05/1:59 PM
Not as good as your first. I counted three grammatical errors.