Re: A Love in the Distance by kristenk69lover	29-Aug-02/4:24 PM
It's funny. There are so many things about this poem that make me want to stab myself repeatedly in the thigh with a bread knife, but they all fade into insignificance when compared to the awful, sucking horror that is your use of upper-case 'B' in 'Baby'. You. Are. Not. Special. Indeed, if your dull, sappy, content-free poetry is any indication, your most outstanding feature is your complete lack of any outstanding features. And so sayeth -=Jesu=-.
Re: Cancer Haikus by poetandknowit	29-Aug-02/4:20 PM
No. I do not.
Re: The green mile by Ming T. Merciless	29-Aug-02/4:19 PM
You're crap.
Re: Cancer Haikus by poetandknowit	29-Aug-02/4:13 PM
Pfff. It's not even fatal.
Re: Apathy by nentwined	29-Aug-02/4:11 PM
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. The line starting 'can not' is really fucking irritating. The line following it is like a rejected Ozzy Osbourne lyric. This is terrible bullshit.
Re: Cancer Haikus by poetandknowit	29-Aug-02/4:09 PM
What a lovely complement to mine own AIDS limericks! Now all we need are some Ebola sonnets!!
Re: Incidentally, you might want to look up 'Amplexus' by Shin-Bojangles	29-Aug-02/1:24 PM
Or not, as the case may be. A grave accent, as I'm sure you know, is a diagonal line from top left to bottom right. Pop it over the 'e' you want to be pronounced. I think it displays properly in poems, although clearly not in comments.
Re: Incidentally, you might want to look up 'Amplexus' by Shin-Bojangles	29-Aug-02/1:18 PM
If you wish to specify that 'extremely' should be pronounced with four syllables, you could simply add a grave accent as so: 'extrem??ly'.
Re: saving myself for marriage by Venus	29-Aug-02/7:31 AM
As for criticism, shouldn't it be "broken starfish cries"? You only have one, don't you? Or perhaps "broken starfish leaks".
Re: Until Then by Katie	28-Aug-02/7:04 PM
Well fucking sail away then. Or do whatever it is you have to do before you can sail away. Is this supposed to be "meaningful"? There are about 9,000,000,000,000,000 instances of writing in the world that consist of nothing but a) vague, childlike, pseudo-dreamlike imagery, b) line breaks and c) a few half-arsed attempts at rhyme, and call themselves "poems". Other people then go on to call these instances of writing "beautiful", because they apparently think that anything that's vaguely sentimental and meaningless enough to be open to their particular wish-fulfilment interpretation is "beautiful". I believe this is one of those instances. 10/10!!!
Re: you're never alone by nentwined	27-Aug-02/9:13 PM
Every time this appears on my screen, I read the first two lines and then have to actually insert my fist in my mouth so I don't scream. "in your shell you are hiding/ignoring all tidings" What were you thinking? Did you steal that from a 9-year-old's poetry competition?
Re: Sacrosanct Oligarch by Frass	27-Aug-02/9:11 PM
Pfff. Too many metaphors, not enough violence. Were you using the maxim, "If it's hard to parse, it's probably profound?"
Re: Colours by unknown	27-Aug-02/9:07 PM
No. Browne.
Re: Falling in Love by disturbedone182	27-Aug-02/9:07 PM
No, I just meant that this person is about 95% likely to be a Blink 182 fan. But what would -=Dark_Angel=- know? He wants only a few crunchings and munchings.
Re: father Worked Nights by poetandknowit	27-Aug-02/9:06 PM
You just said that. Do you feel hurt when people criticise your poetry? I do not feel hurt when people criticise mine. Perhaps you post poetry as some sort of life-affirming experience, or as therapy, or to gain approval. Otherwise I cannot see why you would be hurt. I will hit you with the cat and mother if you post that comment again.
Re: father Worked Nights by poetandknowit	27-Aug-02/8:51 PM
Yeah, well that's just bollocks, isn't it? What an incredibly narrow concept of poetry. Such melodramatic ideas as 'soul' aren't needed to say what poetry is.
Re: Falling in Love by disturbedone182	27-Aug-02/7:04 PM
Pfft. 'disturbedone182'? Read the first few lines of the poem. Do you really have to ask?
Re: Awesome Heir by Shin-Bojangles	27-Aug-02/6:28 AM
I object to the use of the term 'boob'. Please spell it 'b00b'.
Re: School by shwenatjadeflower	27-Aug-02/6:23 AM
shwentahtadndjadlower, you should know that Doylum is a) deceitful, b) a perv and c) he's captured Father Christmas, and if you get too close he'll capture you too. Only Jesu knows what horrors would result then...
Re: Aids in a van - are you local? by ==Doylum	27-Aug-02/6:20 AM
Curses! The secret is out! Was this inspired by visiting that particular part of Royston Vasey the other night, or did you just spontaneously decide to remember? (P.S. It's "Legz Akimbo"). For your insolence, I give thee a 10. You shall never be King of the Worst Poemes Section.