Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	7-Apr-05/12:10 PM
I suggest you may be right, but it is fun to speculate.
Re: a comment on Make Music in Your Heart by Dovina	7-Apr-05/8:19 AM
And I do appreciate your not doing that.
Re: a comment on Moments (or) Suicide by Dovina	7-Apr-05/8:16 AM
To justly evaluate a life and thereby judge its value or worth is the thing I’m trying to get at. Nobody does it right in the angst of suicide. The method I’m proposing isn’t very logical, and your complaint about it in your PS is valid, but it’s easy to do. And it turns out, quite interesting in my case. You simply write a quick list of ten Moments, taking no more than five minutes. Then put a + beside the wonderful Moments and a (–) beside the horrible ones. (A Moment cannot be mundane or you would not remember it as important.) Then do the math. I’d be interested in seeing the averages.
Re: a comment on Hard Rock by Dovina	7-Apr-05/7:58 AM
I suppose I am supposed to find some contorted relavance to the poem.
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	6-Apr-05/8:35 PM
So I am being told. When I read them, I see several ways of saying the same thing. Would you care to speculate on why that might be. Perhaps you'd like to reiterate one of the the usual Dovina-dimtard answers or perhaps something like, "This is a consequence of trying to make Dovina see she is a 'woman' and therefore innately bad at arguing."
Re: Arab Shepherd (a belief poem for Dovina) by zodiac	6-Apr-05/9:21 AM
I don’t know why you add to a good title, the phrase, “a belief poem for Dovina” unless your firmly standing shepherd reminds you of firm belief, and I either do not, or do, or also write about belief. In any case, it flows well, but I think you sacrifice too much clarity for form. Introducing the old English “’twas” so late in the poem, for example, and not using old English again, shows a strong desire to maintain meter. And that whole sentence is cumbersome. Shouldn’t “love” be “Love,” as a name?
Re: Golden Sands by Hadasl	6-Apr-05/8:58 AM
Too etherial, I think, to make the jump from earthly sand to heavenly sand without some transition. Nice thought though.
Re: Celestial Veil by Hadasl	6-Apr-05/8:53 AM
The rebuttal has usually been, “That’s why He made humans.”
Re: a comment on Prayer For The Church by sliver	6-Apr-05/8:39 AM
that's not too bad a definition of prayer.
Re: a comment on Prayer For The Church by sliver	6-Apr-05/8:34 AM
When I said, “No to both you and zodiac,” I was saying that that way of looking at prayer has always led nowhere. I admittedly sidestepped the issues you raised, and addressed prayer from the position of people who pray, which I think carries some validity that you are sidestepping when you reduce prayer to illogical guff. (Sorry, you didn’t say that, but I think it’s where you’re headed.) You do not have to answer the concerns I raised in the above comments any more than I have to answer yours.
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	6-Apr-05/8:10 AM
I have defined closed mindedness in several ways and at several times during this discussion, and I think it's abundently clear what I mean by the term. If you wish to review each statement I have made for its grammatical clarity and correctness, please do so with someoine else. I am not interested in that at this point. It might have made a difference several days ago, but now everyone but you seems to know where I stand on that.
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	6-Apr-05/8:03 AM
If you can prove that he cannot change the original description without telling the truth sometimes, then you are right. But don't give some trivial example. We are dealing with an intelligent deceiver.
Re: a comment on Make Music in Your Heart by Dovina	6-Apr-05/7:55 AM
Seldom does someone comment on one of my poems as you have done here. They usually raise other issues, often having nothing to do with the poem, with which I often argue. You have stated your opinion of the poem, and I accept it.
Re: a comment on What I Exist For by Dovina	6-Apr-05/7:50 AM
"but You are so far away" from what? What do you mean?
Re: a comment on Moments (or) Suicide by Dovina	6-Apr-05/7:43 AM
My life evaluated like this (according to the ratio of good Moments to total Moments that I’ve remembered) might be considered, in some dark hour, (perhaps an hour in which suicide seems appropriate) not just bunk, but as in this ordinary hour, for its (my life’s) just evaluation.
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	5-Apr-05/6:18 PM
"Because I'm cold." It is a lie, why not change it to deceive. You will say that's not fair because the Liar-Confuser is not answering, but holding the truth in his mind. I say baloney, he can do that under the original rules.
Re: a comment on Prayer For The Church by sliver	5-Apr-05/6:14 PM
If they say that prayer is a logical process, will you confront them on it? Because if you do, it could only lead to differing definitions of the word “logical.” You would prevail using the dictionary definition, and they would go away unchanged in their belief, but with a clearer understanding of what the word “logical” means. My question to you on this and many similar arguments is: What’s the point?
Re: Three words and thirty coins by Caducus	5-Apr-05/11:30 AM
This is all very confusing.
Re: Lost by skye	5-Apr-05/11:24 AM
I've seen her, can feel her paranoia. Welcome to poemranker.
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	5-Apr-05/11:17 AM
My answer to your second question is yes. I don't even have to think about it to answer yes or no, because I am a deceiver and will continually deceive you by lying differently about what my answer is. If I must stick with my original answer, then you have imposed a rule.