Re: a comment on the band by celticskatermatt1	8-Nov-05/1:01 AM
Why did I call you a teenager? The average grown-up gives up on such pipe dreams as rock stardom and instead focuses on sounding smarter by learning multisyllable words and talking down to teenagers. We envy your innocence but alas at 17 it won't be long before you join the throng of us fuddy-duddies. But really kid, you don't learn to skate by throwing yourself down the halfpipe and not expect to get hurt and ridiculed a little. Get yourself a collection of great poetry book or two and read it and study poetic methods (I mean without looking it up. What's an onomatopoeia or alliteration? You use a lot of one and in this poem maybe should use some of the other.) You'd be surprised how much of poetry is just a calculated trick. Does this sound better to you? In the music studio in my mind, the window vibes to every beat every rhyme and reason strung by bass strumming, humming, buzzing in my teeth lead guitar sings and wails and sails I kiss the mic. A taste of metal and cocaine Pyrotechnics blaze, my lungs bellow hordes of chords into the sky and from the crowd a thunder cloud for the band, their hands give praise We are gods of the stage till I awake to the quiet rage of reality. Just tricks of poetry. Rhyme, Metaphor, Symbolism, alliteration, etc. Bye the way some of your poems are pretty good. I just wish you knew why.
Re: a casting is rescued by ay deee	7-Nov-05/8:34 PM
Here it's poetry, at the steel mill it's a safety instruction manual. Not that bad though. Sounds like a circa 1930s setting.
Re: a comment on To The Modern Black Standard by ALChemy	7-Nov-05/7:25 PM
My poem includes words such as pimp, bitches, cocaine and motherfucker. If this is what reminds you of 5 year olds then I would suggest you get some serious psychiatric help. If you're replying to the comment I made on your poem. I would suggest you click the little green reply link in the corner of my comment beneath your poem. Post whatever remark your teenage mind can muster but for God sakes stop stalking everyone who says something you don't like. Ya sicko.
Re: the band by celticskatermatt1	7-Nov-05/6:10 PM
What are you, like 13?
Re: a comment on Bluegrass Blueshield by T. Jonathron Remp	7-Nov-05/3:28 PM
I think it's when you use K-Y jelly and you forget to wash it off and it dries and hardens.
Re: a comment on To The Modern Black Standard by ALChemy	7-Nov-05/3:24 PM
Don't worry. Your first reaction is expected and somewhat intended. It only means you're normal. Irony can do that in a poem. It is kinda racist for a white dude (me) to criticize black people for their self image. So you're not waaaaaay off.
Re: a comment on To The Modern Black Standard by ALChemy	7-Nov-05/2:59 PM
Oh, you are upset because I gave your poem "politics" a goose-egg. I just thought you sucked and LL Cool J did it better. :(
Re: a comment on Sonata for Robin and Poet by Dovina	7-Nov-05/2:51 PM
That's 'cause I eat mostly corn. But really I think it's quite beautiful and funny. If you promise not to tell...-10-
Re: a comment on Sonata for Robin and Poet by Dovina	7-Nov-05/2:04 PM
"The most logical interpretation is not always right". No it's just logical. Forgive me if you feel I pooped on your poem but that's what us robins do. I actually think it's some of the best stuff you've written this week.
Re: Sonata for Robin and Poet by Dovina	7-Nov-05/1:30 PM
An amusing little story. RED and brown? Does the bird have colon cancer?
Re: Bluegrass Blueshield by T. Jonathron Remp	7-Nov-05/11:32 AM
Not cinquain. You know what's funny. If you search cinquain at dictionary.com it causes a glitch in which it can't find any definitions but then offers twice the exact same spelling as an alternative and if you click those it just brings up the same response but if you type cinquains (the plural form) than you get the definition for cinquain. Maybe it's the Smythe-Klein Effect.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	7-Nov-05/1:35 AM
Then you'll just love this: http://www.lyricskeeper.com/david_alan_coe-lyrics/124442-nigger_fucker-lyrics.htm
Re: a comment on Scarlet by BrandonW	7-Nov-05/1:25 AM
You're not a Catholic priest are you?
Re: Wondering on the Streets by woodstock20000	6-Nov-05/1:30 PM
Stars are made of Hydrogen and a little Helium but on the other end tears as well as all matter in the universe is made of stars. Here's a song that might speak to you. http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/wariner-steve/two-teardrops-2923.html
Re: tourist by skaskowski	6-Nov-05/1:17 PM
Lose "whole" in stanza 2.
Re: Scarlet by BrandonW	6-Nov-05/12:52 PM
It's been my experiance that red heads are some of the best lays. Although I may be only half right seeing I only do the girls.
Re: a comment on To The Modern Black Standard by ALChemy	6-Nov-05/6:59 AM
I didn't mean personal isolationism. I meant democrats are the homemakers of the country. Republicans take care of the business. So democrats are like women in the 1950s. Personally I think both parties are old fashioned.
Re: a comment on To The Modern Black Standard by ALChemy	6-Nov-05/6:48 AM
I like your interpretation better. A much more subtle, less offensive take than what I was thinking but I think you still get the gist. For every black person trying to progress there's two more pulling in the opposite direction. Black people are still being held down by there own misconceptions of themselves and self imposed stereotypes. I was inspired by the words of such men as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Bill Cosby. The caged bird is stolen from Mia Angelo and used in this poem to represent a married or seriously involved black man yearning for freedom to spread his seed to the white pussy. You see how this is probably not what Ms Angelo had in mind. -Bwahahahaa!- Ms Angelo.
Re: a comment on To The Modern Black Standard by ALChemy	6-Nov-05/5:35 AM
I'm sure I've heard the song before but I can't remember it. I tried to find it on the web to listen to but have yet to find a sample in which she is singing. Throw me a link if you find something. The spacing and indentations are just my homage to the time honored Poemranker tradition. Who did write "gimme a pigsfoot and a bottle of beer"? I'm not a Jew. I'm Black Irish with a little Native American thrown in. Can you imagine the amount of alcohol I've consumed. I do love the blues though.
Re: a comment on Posted Pelicans by Dovina	5-Nov-05/2:54 PM
Very Freudian indeed: Comes slides in slowly cocks a massive beak settles on a post sweetly coming/ deeply Peaks/glisten lapping/below I can live with the on/off rhyming. I just think it needs more info (more stanzas even) to clarify the meaning.