Re: Was Everyone Put On This Earth For A Reason by cabot	14-Oct-05/11:38 AM
Please, check your spelling and grammar. I've counted at least 10 problems that need to be fixed (and that's including words like don't and won't which should really be apostrophized).
Re: Cycles In Circles - Shame by D P Robertson	14-Oct-05/8:59 AM
Way too long with nothing to say! I got bored well before the halfway mark. I'm not really sure what you're getting at, and the cyclic composition seems forced to me. Sorry.
Re: In the berth by INTRANSIT	11-Oct-05/11:32 AM
(however, don't you think that "it's" should be changed to "its", as in Or a freight train passes singing its empty boxcar song; ?)
Re: In the berth by INTRANSIT	11-Oct-05/11:31 AM
sorry to repeat previous comments, but I loved it. ;-)
Re: Noble oboe now sings every next saturday evening by ALChemy	11-Oct-05/11:29 AM
I liked it. Not for any particular turn of phrase but for the soft dreamlike quality I felt it evoked. But I would get rid of the 'Satellite' bit, not everything has to stay a pure train of thought...
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	11-Oct-05/11:13 AM
I don't snub my nose at rhyming poems, quite the contrary. I was basically making a joke and lo! a rational discussion sprang forth! Seriously, I consider the art of writing poetry in rhyme or strict cadence as one that is a distinct intellectual exercise (hell, what poetry isn't? but still) as well as an expression of feeling and emotion. It's an obvious challenge to compress an idea to a pre-determined form (like a sonnet, for instance) and perhaps that is the reason I don't write more in verse, though I love it - I feel that rhymes should fall into place naturally, instead of stilting the poetry itself. That's tremendously hard to pull off correctly.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	11-Oct-05/11:06 AM
Hip-hop? I don't think so. I mean, out of all the rappers you've ever heard, how many of them were saying something? (all of them, you'd think?) No. Most just sing about how they're the biggest gangsta in the mothafuckin' hood and have all the best bitches and weed. That's not poetry or anything like it, it's simply ludicrous and an excuse for music with no content. I've heard very few hip-hop songs that made me stop and think. Maybe it's degenerated and I admit that in Israel rapping on the corner is pretty rare, but I don't have much appreciation for hip-hop as a genre. Sorry. ~ (hey! I loved Gargamel (still do)!)
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	4-Oct-05/10:56 AM
You get bad reviews on poemranker. Of course...
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	3-Oct-05/3:53 PM
Heh, it's not even a poem, it's more of a joke; a friend of mine found my page through a web search and informed me (indirectly) that I don't rhyme enough. So I emailed him back with this and figured it would be amusing to put it on the site. C'est tout...
Re: No Aegis by wilco	3-Oct-05/11:45 AM
I enjoyed reading your poem :-D it's intriguing. I think the third stanza could use a little work though.(perhaps clarification)?
Re: Escape by Heather Dee	3-Oct-05/11:42 AM
Too many cliches for me, I'm afraid... sorry.
Re: a comment on Without my Glasses by Niphredil	3-Oct-05/11:35 AM
does clicking on the little hyperlink thingy and reading the title count? ;-)
Re: a comment on Without my Glasses by Niphredil	3-Oct-05/11:34 AM
If only I knew what 'being a wanna-be introvert' has to do with anything...
Re: Without my Glasses by Niphredil	3-Oct-05/2:41 AM
Heh. Where are you from, zodiac, anyway? Dovina: the poem was written from my viewpoint, inside a dark room; the streetlight is outside and what I can see is the fuzzy light sifting through the window shade. 'streaks of white' - well, they wouldn't be seen as streaks if i had my glasses on :-)
Re: War by zodiac	3-Aug-05/7:11 AM
Fascinating. But I admit I am confused; too many swirling motives here. Aside from the central bread theme, I'd be happy if you were to clarify "the order of things: a dog, a made bed, a centerpiece, those million, no, billion lives saved for some use I can't imagine - to trip my hands, maybe..." Who are these billion lives? a country? a nation? just people? not even human? who saved them and why?
Re: Rapid Eye Movement by wilco	2-Aug-05/4:28 AM
Lovely. I enjoyed your poem, it was a pleasure.
Re: a comment on I sat beside the night by Niphredil	16-May-05/12:25 PM
Thanks. You're right, I will.
Re: Zin/Enough/Things/Squeeze/Flow by gregsamsa222	16-May-05/10:18 AM
It touched me. I think it is a beautiful poem.
Re: Shades by Niphredil	16-May-05/6:50 AM
This poem was written after a visit to the extermination camp, Majdanek, in Poland.
Re: Majdanek by Niphredil	16-May-05/6:48 AM
This poem, as well as 'Shades', was written during a visit to the death camps in Poland. Majdanek made a particularly powerful impression on me, and I wrote those two poems following the visit.