Re: a comment on Tree of Life by ALChemy	25-Jan-06/7:50 PM
What things appear to be and what they are can be different.
Re: a comment on Tree of Life by ALChemy	25-Jan-06/7:38 PM
I'm glad you got it, after all, your poem inspired it.
Re: a comment on Tree of Life by ALChemy	25-Jan-06/7:32 PM
Nope that's pretty much it. Just thought that was a neat image worth haikuing. Just the image of seeing a birch in winter that appears to be filled with pretty red leaves and then realizing they're a large flock of cardinals as they fly off. The image seems to lend itself to some symbolism the reader can make their own. I hope your not disappointed.
Re: a comment on Tree of Life by ALChemy	25-Jan-06/1:05 PM
I'm sorry that probably didn't come out quite right. For all I know, you did figure it out. I'm just sleepy so my comments are coming out all wrong.
Re: a comment on Tree of Life by ALChemy	25-Jan-06/12:54 PM
Your thinking The Crimson Birch or the Red Birch right. I checked to make sure they didn't fit the bill. The red is intentional. Read it and think about it. It'll don on you I promise.
Re: Pacifics by zodiac	25-Jan-06/12:06 PM
I've been trying to check out your old stuff a little bit at a time just to get more of a feel for your writing. This I think is the closest thing to a 70s pop song you've ever written but I think you were probably feeling like one at the time. It was still a great read. The half rhyme scheme was ace.
Re: a comment on A Schizophrenic by amanda_dcosta	25-Jan-06/10:32 AM
I'm 30,000 dollars in dept and I have a credit union suing me. So sure, Just put it on my tab.
Re: Unfortunate Lover by elderking	25-Jan-06/10:28 AM
"Don't stand. Don't stand so close to me."
Re: a comment on A Schizophrenic by amanda_dcosta	25-Jan-06/10:22 AM
I'd have to hitch a ride with my old boss Subhash to India, who by the way is in more need of a psychiatrist than me.
Re: a comment on A Schizophrenic by amanda_dcosta	25-Jan-06/10:03 AM
No, but I was told he was one of the best. I was only 15 at the time.
Re: a comment on A Schizophrenic by amanda_dcosta	25-Jan-06/9:23 AM
I did. He watched me draw for ten minutes and then prescribed me vitamins.
Re: A Book's Plight by amanda_dcosta	25-Jan-06/7:28 AM
"Everyone's a book of blood; whenever we're opened we're red." -Clive Barker from The Books of Blood. Kinda comes across as a nice kids poem. So in that way I don't mind the simpler rhymes :)
Re: The True Fate of Humpty Dumpty by Joe-joe	25-Jan-06/6:43 AM
Fascinating. This would be a great introduction to a story.
Re: a comment on A Schizophrenic by amanda_dcosta	25-Jan-06/6:39 AM
Hopefully not infamous though. I had a psychologist tell me that she'd never met anyone more stable and with such inner peace. I thought, geeze lady you're more messed up than I am.
Re: a comment on A Schizophrenic by amanda_dcosta	25-Jan-06/5:13 AM
He's a shrink? Cool, maybe he can cure some of us. Welcome to the cuckoos nest known as poemranker my dear.
Re: a comment on When God is Needed No More by ALChemy	25-Jan-06/4:54 AM
Thank God you spent some time in luke warm NC. before heading north to Alaska. The temperature shock between Arabia and Alaska might have given you permanent Katharine Hepburn shakes.
Re: Small-town Postal Clerk Considers Inspiration by zodiac	24-Jan-06/3:15 PM
One thing I find impressive about you is that you speak a handful of languages, have an extensive vocabulary and have credentials to back it up and yet you rarely ever speak over peoples head. You are born to teach.
Re: In praise of racism by INTRANSIT	24-Jan-06/2:39 PM
Second verse, same as the first. 'Cept w/ spell check.
Re: a comment on When God is Needed No More by ALChemy	24-Jan-06/2:33 PM
Yes, I've been there. Maybe it's the pastel blue, I don't know.
Re: a comment on A Schizophrenic by amanda_dcosta	24-Jan-06/2:26 PM
Yeah but did you "live" in one? Ay, ayy?