Re: a comment on Searching by dougsoderstrom	11-Jul-04/4:23 PM
"standards you are trying to promote" No standards! No promotions! Truth is the answer. Switch or stick, it's all 0.5 probability.
Re: a comment on Searching by dougsoderstrom	11-Jul-04/3:37 PM
Yes, the difference between seeking psychological security and facing reality. It's best to seek truth even if it hurts, or as you say, even if it is incomprensible. I like to think that some truth is actually out there to be found, or am I self deluded?
Re: a comment on Searching by dougsoderstrom	11-Jul-04/2:54 PM
At the risk of being called worse than "smug" couldn't the same be said for any religious position or even a political position. Is it any more than a way of bringing up the thing you want to talk about?
Re: Searching by dougsoderstrom	11-Jul-04/11:40 AM
True, but why do you search for an answer unsought?
Re: a comment on A Girl’s Climax by Dovina	11-Jul-04/11:34 AM
I look fabulous because he noticed. Exactly what he noticed or what the effect will be on my future dieting or makeup are yet to be figured out. Thanks for your comments.
Re: Bach by Rodavlas	10-Jul-04/7:23 PM
Line 2 doesn't seem to jive with line 1, unless it's a gut feeling about Bach's music. Line 5: no one. Bach's music is quite mathematical in how it sounds, and doesn't usually call up a "tender face" or "serenity and grace."
Re: Innocence Having Been Lost by dougsoderstrom	10-Jul-04/2:22 PM
I usually yawn at this sort of political rant. But it's not a bad rendition of a familiar chant
Re: a comment on The Ladies and the Bum by Dovina	10-Jul-04/7:23 AM
And mine. The conversation was insincere stabbing, getting even. Let's call this jab-voting and senseless slamming OFF.
Re: a comment on The Ladies and the Bum by Dovina	10-Jul-04/7:13 AM
Yeah, thanks, these are good suggestions on a kind of free-style, I haven't tried before. A kind of letting the thing out with the feeling of the moment, which of course is unprofessional.
Re: Mm, Shoes... ? by fevriere	9-Jul-04/4:13 PM
Not much better on rewrite. What really are you trying to say?
Re: a comment on A Child Once More by Quarton	9-Jul-04/11:09 AM
Teamwork, really?
Re: A Child Once More by Quarton	8-Jul-04/5:07 PM
Though quite touching in its meter and cozy reflection, some childhood recollections don't match up. For example, no "other's truths to embrace or reject," suggests I always agreed with my parents. And I had some "negative thoughts with which to cope." Sometimes I was not "unburdened by sorrow." Well, you get the point, and I'm getting yours - that adult life brings on an unwelcome complexity of worries. But maybe they're just more current.
Re: Sugared petrol isn't sweet if your ass is black & blue. by Y2kSlamPoet	8-Jul-04/2:13 PM
There's a category for Prose Poetry, but I disagree with putting this there. It's too long and too unpoetic even for prose poetry. Try a short story, posted elsewhere.
Re: a comment on A Piñon Limb by Dovina	8-Jul-04/11:15 AM
I was too embarrassed.
Re: a comment on A Piñon Limb by Dovina	8-Jul-04/10:38 AM
A frustrated poetess who conforms to a corset for the purpose of showing how silly she looks.
Re: Differences by gavinduff	8-Jul-04/10:35 AM
A good story. Some shortening might improve impact. Verse 2 might go: A tiny fly walks In stale alcohol And poignant tears I dunno, play with it.
Re: Mm, Shoes... ? by fevriere	8-Jul-04/10:28 AM
"I am raw sugarcane for the eyes," is a great line. If only the others were. Line 2 is a question mark.
Re: Urbane Jane by MacFrantic	8-Jul-04/10:21 AM
I like it all but "confined to." why not give her a choice?
Re: I by D. $ Fontera	8-Jul-04/10:17 AM
Especially like, "All I have is desperation, and sometimes that's enough to get by on."
Re: Distance by wilco	8-Jul-04/10:08 AM
Verse 1 is a summation of the comments on Recyclet Stardust. Verse 2 is anti-love Verse 3 is is a measure of love, and hard to associate with verse 2 Maybe love is the cliche, and this is the answer. Not bad.