Re: a comment on For Love of Baseball by Dovina	28-Dec-05/8:13 AM
A sexual reference? Of course not! It's a matter of whether I cared that a homerun happened to that team and that player at that time. Before it did didn't, now it does.
Re: Ennui by Sisterwolf	28-Dec-05/8:10 AM
I wish that you would not delete the comments when you make a revision. We can see which ones came after the revision by looking at the time stamps. You will find, if you stay here long, that poeple who delete comments get few. Thank you for the periods and the clarifications. It's better now.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	28-Dec-05/7:39 AM
Happy marriages are not boring because the logic they stand on is independent of verification. Although I have substituted "logic" for "love" it works in its own right. It is not necessary to verify the existance of 332 planets to know that the logic used in deducing their existence is good. If the planets turn out to be figments, the logic still stands, because it is there - part of the universe as much as any other part. We can argue about the quality of certain "logical" processes. but that's another discussion. I only want to assert that love and logic exist.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	28-Dec-05/7:29 AM
Your deference for the incredulous -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I. borders on ludicrous.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	27-Dec-05/3:15 PM
Our senses are requirement to perceive that there are 332 of them (objects like apples or birds). Any way we come up with that number, our senses are involved. On that basis I thee wed. But I was referring to the number itself, not the perception of it. Matrimony exists, I believe, without married people. And before there was anyone to perceive 332 of them, they still existed. Logic is the process of determining the number 332 as different from some other number, independently from perceiving. Logic might deduce 332 planets, rotating about some star, for example, planets that are imperceivable. The process of logic seems to me basic to the orderliness of the universe, and I think it exists in its own right. Perception confuses us sometimes, but logic seems to work even without perception. And on that difference, I thee anul, and count it a happy marriage.
Re: Faceless agonies by Prince of Void	27-Dec-05/12:01 PM
May I suggest that you have inadvertently written a happy, optimistic poem? A pathless heart is the easiest kind to love, the most adaptable, the most able to join another heart.
Re: a comment on Apocalypse has come to end by Prince of Void	27-Dec-05/11:57 AM
I have self-doubt. I am not a princess and should not be called "highness." But thank you. Post modern poetry? - I never thought of mine as that.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	27-Dec-05/11:52 AM
I agree with most of what you say. But to assert that "there is no logic beyond our senses that we know of" is to say we cannot know logic in a real way. Then we cannot say that numbers exist in a real world, the number 332, for example, because 332 is logically deduced. We cannot look at a group of things and say that 332 of them are in the group without going through a counting or grouping process - logical deduction. I believe that constructs such as these exist in a world that exists and that they are inseparable from it.
Re: a comment on Hoi Polloi by INTRANSIT	27-Dec-05/11:37 AM
Ain't that the truth!
Re: a comment on Broken Bird by Sisterwolf	26-Dec-05/10:04 PM
Please don't misunderstand. I don't care about your credentials or votes on POTM at some other site or your education or even your breeding stock. Your recently posted poem "ennui" is provocative and good in my opinion. What you must realize is that the comments here may not tell you that. They could just as likely predict the return of Christ. So you can either enter that discussion or ignore it and just consider comments about your poem and the votes. It's a baby-and-bathwater kind of thing.
Re: Ennui by Sisterwolf	26-Dec-05/9:41 PM
The wording is complecated in the first few lines, and the lack of periods makes it difficult to follow. On second reading, it went smoother. It's the opposite of cliche, and quite interesting.
Re: Hoi Polloi by INTRANSIT	26-Dec-05/9:29 PM
I stood in line once thinking about something I'd huffed about, and loved it, but I wouldn't do it in line. Time bore down on nine months and nothing happened.
Re: why? by nentwined	26-Dec-05/9:21 PM
-- = one never-ending moment of ecstasy.
Re: a comment on Broken Bird by Sisterwolf	26-Dec-05/9:19 PM
Yes, a comment like this is blood in the shark-infested water. But blood in the snow is get-even time for wolves, sister. We're all sensitive, that's why we write. Look for the usable hamburger bun in the trash heap, the skidmarked Kalvin Klines in the dumpster. and damn the estupidos.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	26-Dec-05/9:11 PM
Zeno is annoying because he mocks logic by misusing it, or he thinks it's the answer for everything. I heard him right. He said my fat thighs look nice. You can take it either way.
Re: a comment on It's Time by PoeticXTC	26-Dec-05/1:53 PM
Zeno is very annoying. He is advocating the thesis that we ought not to follow our senses, but reason and logic in formulating beliefs. When the senses and logic conflict, he contends that the senses are the less reliable of the two, so they should be disregarded. His arguments get most of their power from appeal to the foundational assumption of Logic--The Law of Noncontradiction. This law is the thesis that a claim is true or is false. Most of my claims are both true and false, therefore I do not exist. Not all the ladies were won over by Zeno and his lines.
Re: real fright of going home by veggiegurl	26-Dec-05/1:42 PM
The moon may well enjoy it. I think the use of 2, w/, 4, youv'e, and all the smily faces detract. As a tongue-in-cheek this is good, so I'm assuming good.
Re: Social Rant by fubang22	26-Dec-05/1:37 PM
This is funny. Really.
Re: a comment on Apocalypse has come to end by Prince of Void	26-Dec-05/1:33 PM
The words "highness" and "princess" make me more nervous even than "post modern poetry." Surely you jest on all three counts.
Re: a comment on Mixed Quartet by Dovina	24-Dec-05/3:49 PM
Brodsky, then, did not read, or chose tradition over scripture. The star associated with the Wise Men came when Jesus was about two years old. He was not an infant. The Wise Men found Mary, Joseph and Jesus in a house where the toddler could have been precocious enough to have noticed the star and perceived something about its relivance. I wish you would try to get these kinds of things straight before using them as arguments.