Re: a comment on Waiting For The Light To Change by elderking	23-Nov-05/7:31 AM
You must have clicked on the little red x. There is no recovery from such sin.
Re: a comment on Sonata for Robin and Poet by Dovina	23-Nov-05/7:27 AM
Your powms do not show up on the random list because they have been voted on recently. Only poems without votes show up there. Sorry about Caviot, it should be Caveat. You'll get a lot more guff comments here on Poemranker than comments on your poem. If you like the interchange, that's good, if not you'll be disappointed. I try to sort gems from a trash heap, and figure the take is worth the effort.
Re: No Worries by Dovina	23-Nov-05/7:17 AM
I have been accused, elsewhere on Poemranker, of plagiarizing this poem. I ask you, has plagiarism occurred when I cite the source and describe how I use it?
Re: One Second by TLRufener	22-Nov-05/5:02 PM
I will comment and vote on this if you will promise not to delete any more comments that are not your own.
Re: Devictus by nocturnalism	22-Nov-05/5:01 PM
Why do you curse the gods for you unforgivableness? Still, it's a haunting lament.
Re: a comment on Waiting For The Light To Change by elderking	22-Nov-05/4:55 PM
Fine, but I wish you had not removed my comment.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	22-Nov-05/4:54 PM
DOVINA: I could, and I could disqualify you because of them. But it would make no more sense than your trumping disqusalifications. Will you repeat after me: "I could stand up now if I tried, but I choose not to try."? I never trust someone who knows - Dovina
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	22-Nov-05/4:52 PM
You may prefer it, but my image is less haunting. Sorry to disappoint.
Re: i dream in nine minute increments by ay deee	22-Nov-05/1:49 PM
A 36-minute dream. Were you watching the clock?
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	22-Nov-05/1:46 PM
Since you're asking the questions and can adjust the answers, sure, why not.
Re: a comment on Due Consideration by Dovina	22-Nov-05/1:41 PM
A break in rhythm happens in a conversation or in a poem when I come to a place of such emotion or uncontrol that something in me wants to come out, but I grasp it in my throat. There I hold it for critical moment, trying to decide whether “to give” it sound would say the thing that wants to come out or whether reason will prevail and “give” the sound the mask I wish it to wear. Thanks for your comment.
Re: a comment on Due Consideration by Dovina	22-Nov-05/1:40 PM
Do I detect a note of sarcasm? If so, good. Subtle sarcasm is good for the soul. As for those afraid to post their stuff, consider this: I don’t undertake only those tasks at which I believe I will shine. Such fear-based reticence would limit my play and exposure to others’ play in a child’s game aimed at education. I risk encountering ridicule, and even welcome it sometimes, for the possibility of a shining insight. It’s hard to be sworn at or likened to all manner of disgusting things, but as long as sun glimmers from that pool of urine, I’ll endure the stench. Or as a lost friend once said, “Poemranker is a great resource. It is like a huge thrift shop or, even better, a gigantic landfill. If you don't mind getting dirty, there are many precious things to be found under some especially slimy, fecally covered toilet seat or unwashed, skidmarked underwear.” I’m getting all mushy and teary-eyed now.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	22-Nov-05/7:37 AM
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Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	22-Nov-05/7:31 AM
This pretty well describes teen girls, but the last verse pales to the maturity of many older women.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	22-Nov-05/7:28 AM
To trump, by any definition including the ones you use, is to win or claim winning, which I care little about. Hopefully, that's settled. 1. My question to this kind of thinking is: Why do you want to discover my beliefs and then comment on them, rather than just commenting on what I say? 2. My comment here is similar: Why do you answer from the position that because I make a comment about God's existence using phrasing of that position which you think is typically Christion, that I therefore am probably Christian and should be addressed as such? I could classify you before I comment, but I seldom do. Why do you invariably do it to me? I think better discussion results from comments about comments, rather than comments about inferred character or beliefs of the commenter.
Re: a comment on Due Consideration by Dovina	22-Nov-05/7:08 AM
Frontal lobotomy works well.
Re: a comment on Due Consideration by Dovina	22-Nov-05/7:06 AM
Yes, at least that. Apparently, you've never had a word stick in your throat.
Re: a comment on Sonata for Robin and Poet by Dovina	22-Nov-05/7:04 AM
Sorry to disappoint, but wrong answer. Caviots about my opinion verses yours unnecessary, I hope. I often receive comments and votes on old poems. Besides it allows readers to see all my posted work, better and worse, and to better evaluate it as a whole. That is, unless you're just too sensitive to hear any more comments on a poem you've already judged as bad.
Re: a comment on Us Sinners by BrandonW	21-Nov-05/6:45 AM
You still don't get it. You seem to care most care about trumping, while I usually don't care. We could discuss those two topics you posed if your intent were not simply to trump. 1. "when you or I assume God, we almost always assume Christian God." 2. "'There either is God, or there isn't' is a very Christian-God-minded thing to say." There seems little point in arguing just to win, when so much can be learned through dialog of parties who want to extend their understandings, and all the more so when they hold widely differing views.
Re: a comment on Sonata for Robin and Poet by Dovina	21-Nov-05/6:26 AM
If I deleted every poem that someone said sucks, you can name one that I'd delete, and I can name a lot more. I think it's better to leave a nasty dog alone. Who knows, in a few months, someone might change his mind and take the mut home. It's happened.