Re: a comment on Forest by the Sea by Dovina	7-Aug-06/6:10 AM
The thinker was originally a part of a theme piece called the gates of hell. He sits at the top of the doorway and represents a man with unlimited creative potential but limited ability. He's the thinker because he is unable to be the doer. Both your poem and the thinker represent great potential that is being kept back by something.
Re: Forest by the Sea by Dovina	7-Aug-06/4:51 AM
This really captures the feel of wasted potential with the images of the crewless ships tethered. Like Rodin's Thinker in that way. This is pure poetry.
Re: a comment on A Poem For George Bush by Edna Sweetlove	4-Aug-06/6:41 PM
Then why is it that nobody seems to mention such things in their poems. All we ever get is bleeding hearts saying oh those poor Iraq people who danced in the street with joy on 9/11 and during the London bombings. Here's a newsflash: Countries do evil things to each other all the time. Why is it you wine more about our country more than yours? Americans never complain alot about any other country than their own. Maybe you just secretly want to be American. That's the stupidest metaphor mixed or not that I've ever heard.
Re: A Poem For George Bush by Edna Sweetlove	2-Aug-06/2:58 PM
It was reported that "Angola became the top source of crude imports to oil-hungry China last month, replacing Saudi Arabia as its main supplier" This is why GWB considers Iraq a success. The weapons of mass distruction are in China and Saudi Arabia is a main supplier of oil to them. Just in case you were wondering why we're really in the middle east.
Re: Cold Collapse by MacFrantic	1-Aug-06/8:15 AM
I'm getting melting polar ice caps from it. Sounds really good.
Re: Here's your God by Caducus	1-Aug-06/7:43 AM
Whoever will you have left to blame if everyone stops believing in God? Maybe then we'll blame the soccer fans.
Re: Hot by Dovina	1-Aug-06/3:25 AM
The last 4 lines sound cliche but the rest is golden.
Re: a comment on Diary by Dovina	29-Jul-06/8:20 AM
I like this much more. It's got more of you in it. It seems more honest, more like a diary now.
Re: fragment by ecargo	29-Jul-06/8:11 AM
Reminds me of the days of the cold war.
Re: 08:12AM Hiroshima by Caducus	28-Jul-06/6:35 AM
How do you capture hell in a jar? I'm not sure anyone can but I salute you for trying.
Re: Wisdom by crazyknight	28-Jul-06/6:25 AM
O, those space fillers useless words for syllables. This Haiku does suck.
Re: Diary by Dovina	28-Jul-06/6:14 AM
The jail cell metaphor competes with the main metaphor of the poem. It tends to confuse people when you put an unconnected metaphor inside a bigger metaphor. Otherwise very interesting and thought provoking.
Re: a comment on Ode to the Irish Pub by mindsigns	27-Jul-06/11:24 AM
I don't know about Ireland's Irish or Scotland's Scottish and I won't pretend to preach about things I have no direct experience with but one of the great things about America is that every nationality has the opportunity to live up to and exploit every one of their racial stereotypes to the fullest.
Re: a comment on Ode to the Irish Pub by mindsigns	27-Jul-06/6:08 AM
I think you're mixing the Scottish with the Irish. The Irish are simple living blue collar drunks who like to fight, sing and be as white as humanly possible. The Scotts are more like a mix of Irish and Jew. How do I know? I'm Scottish and Irish.
Re: Ode to the Irish Pub by mindsigns	27-Jul-06/5:54 AM
You can't possibly be Irish.
Re: a comment on Ode to the Irish Pub by mindsigns	26-Jul-06/10:17 AM
Who the hell overrates the Irish, besides maybe the Irish?
Re: A Time to Dance by Dovina	24-Jul-06/9:13 PM
WOW. I getting to see into a part of women I've never seen before and it's located nowhere near the vagina. Not enough info for most others to see this the way the lucky few of us will but for those few it's quite insightful.
Re: a comment on A Time to Dance by Dovina	24-Jul-06/9:09 PM
LOL. You've never sounded older.
Re: Trash by drnick	24-Jul-06/9:00 PM
Nice expression of the one man's trash is another's treasure sentiment.
Re: a comment on Trash by drnick	24-Jul-06/8:59 PM
This poem fits in perfectly with our conversation about evil. If one can find treasure in anything then one can find good in anything.