Re: Panthera pardus by ingwa	17-May-05/1:56 PM
I'd give it a more reader-friendly title. First verse is good. Third verse: Use immense or huge, but not both. Slinks should be slink to go with "you." In the fourth verse you change from "you" to "he" Why? I think you shouldn't. Welcome to poemranker.
Re: a comment on Forever by Dovina	17-May-05/12:32 PM
It is not the king I am friends with.
Re: Learning to Drive by jessicazee	17-May-05/12:24 PM
Although the ending implies what you really learned through the experience, I think a more compelling comparison could be made.
Re: a comment on Learning to Drive by jessicazee	17-May-05/12:23 PM
"private" as opposed to school-sponsored. "calked" as in glued into place with calking.
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	17-May-05/11:30 AM
You’ve done nothing wrong. I had not thought of it that way, but it’s a possibility.
Re: a comment on Nesting Instinct of Women by Dovina	17-May-05/11:29 AM
I thought I made it clear that drones are male bees. Worker bees are females (not sexless) but they do not mate and apparently have no desires for the drones. Now does it compute?
Re: a comment on Forever by Dovina	17-May-05/11:22 AM
Love for the king means you might become irrational enough to say something totally affectionate like “May the king live forever!” You would not say that and mean it if you only like him. It is the distinction between “like” and “love” that I’m trying to get at here.
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	17-May-05/11:15 AM
If it is true that you, “provide emotional support when [your] wife needs it and have it provided when [you] need it,” then bravo! And if it is true: “My relationship/marriage is founded on this idea of perfect mutuality and distribution of work,” then bravo again. But I am hearing so much cerebral definition and so little feeling that I wonder. Anyway if you are “living the dream” then you are right, I should lay off.
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	17-May-05/11:03 AM
I have no idea what you are saying or why you voted 1.
Re: Meters of my destiny by Bhuwan	16-May-05/1:10 PM
You're kidding?
Re: dit da haiku by nentwined	16-May-05/1:08 PM
You're doing a great job with Poemranker, but if you expect a crowd-joining high vote for this, think again.
Re: a comment on Baggage (3rd ending) by INTRANSIT	16-May-05/12:59 PM
I like the genes/jeans thing, but why use such a medical term in the last line when stiff or grating would do? I think that is the question.
Re: I want to know what a lifes like.... by Damien	16-May-05/12:54 PM
This looks like a response to someone who said, "Get a life." Maybe you should change the title to that.
Re: Complex Composition by al-naafiysh	16-May-05/12:50 PM
This is quite good and a situation I can relate to. It's nice to be with someone who is "afraid of me intellectually," but nicer to banter with someone as an equal or where I'm slightly inferior. Don't worry about rockmage. When he gives you a 5, he likes your work.
Re: Old Lady and The Sea by Joe-joe	16-May-05/12:43 PM
I want to think this is about an old woman. I guess I can if I want. And for that a 9.
Re: Bookends by INTRANSIT	16-May-05/12:38 PM
Clever!
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	16-May-05/12:30 PM
We’ve had enough discussions that you know the tack I will follow. First I will point out that your two questions in Paragraph 2 contain propositions constructed to render any answer wrong. I’ve come to expect that and will answer in some roundabout way, which you will object to on grounds I did not answer your question. So I’ll begin with Paragraph 1, because it’s so obviously bogus as to be easily shot down. Of course, I JUST MADE HIM UP, and of course you have seen men crying and seen their breasts wobble and their stomachs sway, so what’s the big deal? I’ll try to ignore the implications of your main argument, the way it is worded with phrases like “all women” and “you think” and “ exactly the same as” designed to aggravate me, and instead get to the core of what you are saying. The average woman is not totally controlled by emotion, nor does she worship it as a god. We devote time to sentimental activities, and think it’s important to recognize our emotions, but trainwrecks? Sorry, but most of us do control our emotions, many of us much better than men do on average. Your argument is beautiful in a rhetorical way, but quite inaccurate.
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	15-May-05/4:56 PM
True, and nothing to be ashamed of.
Re: a comment on Mid Years by Dovina	15-May-05/4:54 PM
We women have monopoly on neither emotion nor floppiness. Have you not seen the old man walking from the pool, his breasts and belly flopping and tears in his eyes over the death of his cat? What we have a monopoly on, except for a few good men, is the admission that emotions are very important to our wellbeing.
Re: Mid Years by Dovina	15-May-05/7:51 AM
zodiac, I’m responding to your several comments about relationship. I disagree that “two important aspects of the relationship are some common understanding of the nature, formed early on, and, yes, sexual compatibility.” That’s such a male thing to say and ignores a woman’s view altogether. Yes, women want good sex, and yes, we want some cerebral understanding of why we are in the relationship, but these are secondary. When you say, “I don't agree that emotional support is the most important aspect of relationshipping,” you have killed the most important thing to us and replaced it with your own needs and desires. As a woman who has loved a man, I had no desire to deny his needs and desires; I wanted to meet them because I favored his happiness equal with my own. So we worked together at compromises and gratification of each other. By the way, if what you want most is good sex, and I don’t believe it is, then it’s going to be much better when she is emotionally thinking that you care a great deal about her emotions.