Re: This one the love by thepinkbunnyofdoom	24-Apr-05/4:00 AM
Many have fought the concept of love and ended up loveless or love torn or unlovable. Love always wins, somewhere else maybe, but it always wins. Bow down to it.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	24-Apr-05/3:41 AM
All this is true and applicable to the poem except the assumption of my naivity for writing a whining poem from the position of middle-aged american white woman who is far less oppressed than most people in the world. I recognize my privilaged position, but it does not prevent me from expressing an instance of racism against me. I thought it would come accrss as a case of what's called reverse dicrimination, but instead it aroused the old racially based passions. That's enlightening. It should be possible to write passionately about racial issues without causing everyone to think I live in a prejudiced box. It should be, but maybe it isn't.
Re: a comment on Prickly Pear by Dovina	24-Apr-05/3:28 AM
Although it is somewhat about a cactus, I am happy that someone noticed it might also be about more. Yeah, the thorns could be described in terms of the violent struggle for life in nature and society; I chose to downplay them.
Re: The Aftermath by darylchew	23-Apr-05/12:05 PM
A rephrasing of a common theme, and not a very good one.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	23-Apr-05/10:29 AM
This comment is an example of what I mean by 30%. Everything in it has been said on this page before.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	23-Apr-05/5:47 AM
1) When I said "Go head . . . " it was not telling anyone to do anything, but on the order of "Go ahead, make my day." 2) The statement does not concern itself with current injustices to blacks. It only mentions past injustices and muses that retribution might be in order. The implication is that retribution is not in order.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	23-Apr-05/5:41 AM
How could it be taken otherwise? Oh yeah, by zodiac.
Re: Crossing the Mojave by INTRANSIT	22-Apr-05/2:53 PM
I've seen him, I think driving that road, shoe leather soul Part of me wishes to walk alongside talk with agave cross the Majave with a dark ghostly guide
Re: a comment on Prickly Pear by Dovina	22-Apr-05/2:43 PM
You're both wrong.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	22-Apr-05/10:59 AM
If you can only expunge calling Goad 'as vernal as spring' you think you can regain the respect of -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I.. To gain my respect, it will take more than that, as if you care. It will take making sense at least 30% of the time. Your test statement to me: "Go ahead, Dovina, post 25 comments on poemranker tonight. In the Middle Ages, men regularly oppressed women. Now that there's no inequality between men and women, go wild." is not offensive. Men and women have never been equal and never will be, neither will giraffes and zebras. Pointing out differences between giraffes and zebras or pointing out the ways they have treated each other over the years is not the same as favoring one over the other.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	22-Apr-05/10:29 AM
My Friday night is going unracistly, and so is my poem. How you can see any implication of racisism in this poem is beyond me. If anything it favors Blacks, but I would not even admit to that if challenged. To say that one race is slightly worse than another, thereby justifying favoritism is ludicrous. And why do you always step in to defend Dark Angel, as if he needs your help?
Re: a comment on the solitary tree by bamf909	22-Apr-05/10:20 AM
You have missed my point. You called the amber waves cowardly. That's telling us something unsubstanciated by anything you said previously. And amber waves of grain is a cliche. The opinions and images in your comment are not in your poem. the poem jabs us with things after you have already said them, making us feel belittled. What you think about cowardice is alright, but how you say it is not.
Re: The South Side of Racine, 1988 by jessicazee	22-Apr-05/10:14 AM
A reminise like this needs a little more to grab the attention of somebody who's new to your street.
Re: A greater purpose? by Damien	22-Apr-05/10:07 AM
This would be good if I found it scratched on a bar napkin. As a poem, it's a disjointed ramble. I think you should think about what you want to say before saying it. some good thoughts are scratched here.
Re: the solitary tree by bamf909	22-Apr-05/10:01 AM
You tell us too much. Use fewer words and choose carefully. Avoid telling us things like "amber waves of grain display yellow cowardice." This has poetntial.
Re: Country Song by Caducus	22-Apr-05/9:51 AM
The irony of time - the order of things is wrong. Clean up a few grammar gaps.
Re: a comment on Middle-Aged White Woman by Dovina	22-Apr-05/9:45 AM
Seldom has a wagonload of giraff shit received so intricate decoration. You will doubtless conclude that I have a prejudice against giraffes relative to zebras, otherwise I would have said zebra shit. Of course the truth is that giraffes genuinely ARE slightly worse than zebras, so my slight preference is not so much a prejudice as an accurate one.
Re: The temple of Dissaray by DeadtotheWorld	21-Apr-05/2:02 PM
At first I thought all the spelling and grammar irregularities were on purpose. Now I think you know no better.
Re: Stop by [mojo]	21-Apr-05/2:00 PM
It can't be helped. We are sick or we wouldn't do this.
Re: a comment on Sudden Change by Dovina	21-Apr-05/1:57 PM
There is no "wrong."