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.
Re: Yesterday I cried by 1Sapphire1	26-Aug-02/5:15 PM
I don't know what naughty religion you're from, but in the kingdom of Jesu, dead people don't turn into angels. I also think that you have substituted bland sentimentality for actual content. There is too much exposition and not enough evocation. But hey, that's just my opinion! I would never try to tell you what to do! Probably, I just don't understand! Have a great one! 10/10!!!
Re: father Worked Nights by poetandknowit	26-Aug-02/5:07 PM
Pfft. You've been paying too much attention to god'swife. Cruelty has nothing to do with it. It's just an amusing phrase, partly because 'mother' can be construed as being in the scope of the 'the', i.e. 'the cat and the mother'. The other reason it's funny is that the combination of cats and violence is inherently funny, at least in principle. I'm sure in reality it may be less funny.
Re: father Worked Nights by poetandknowit	26-Aug-02/3:08 PM
I realise this is probably a 'serious' poeme, but 'using the cat and mother for his steel' is hilarious. I'm going to give this 10 because that's what all the mature people who really appreciate poetry do.
Re: Daddy by mishy_lee	26-Aug-02/3:04 PM
While I'm sure your sorrow is both beautiful and deep, your expression of it is facile and stupefyingly dull. I might have thought that it was intentionally 'childlike', but the last verse strikes me as unintentionally shit. What are you trying to achieve here? Are you attempting to say something that mere prose couldn't say? Are you experimenting with new forms of poetic expression? Or are you just trying to make your expression of grief rhyme? Contrary to popular belief, things that rhyme aren't more true or deep than things that don't rhyme. 10/10!!!
Re: Three Daughters by <~>	24-Aug-02/4:59 PM
Who the fuck knows what this site is... since you ask for my opinion, whether in jest or not, I'll give it to you. However, don't expect it to be insightful (and above all, try not to be constrained, since I have a nasty habit of dictating to people and trying to force them into playing by my petty rules). The writing is pleasing, and what imagery I can 'get' is interesting, but I don't understand what is supposed to be going on 'really'. I also thought the second half of the fourth stanza (paragraph, whatever it's called) is hard on the eyes. It reminds me of Erik the fucking Viking, or something. If there was a greased old man in the sea it would be better in my estimation.
Re: Turnarounds by dilips_10	24-Aug-02/2:40 PM
lol!! i guess we all make mistakes sometimes huh?!
Re: Three Daughters by <~>	24-Aug-02/12:12 PM
Awkward, formulaic gushing - the best way to show your poetic appreciation!!
Re: Gilded Stumps of Olde (AN STORY THAT IS NOT AN POEME) by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	23-Aug-02/5:07 PM
"PAKI", you are misled. I don't believe I have ever said that my "poetry" is supposed to be bad. I have said that two of the poemes that I wrote that are in the worst section were intended to end up in the worst section (the 'AIDS in a <x>' limericks). Surely even you can believe that. I have also said that, when certain people criticise my poetry, they are misguided simply because they assume I am trying to do something I am not (e.g. "create a beautiful image", "say something profound about the nature of human existence"). Most of my most vehement detractors (and most of those who I defend myself against) are teenagers whose cack love poetry I have disparaged. It would be incredibly stupid to do what you claim I do and say "I'm intentionally bad, so by calling me bad you are calling me good". Most of my disparaging comments go on the basis that some poemes are just rubbish, unless the goal is specifically to create that exact style of poeme. My criteria for rubbishness include unaware clichedness, technical incompetence, banal sentiment, etc. These are accurate criteria in most cases. If you care to notice, I rarely seriously disparage the 'serious' poetes' poemes, because since they don't meet any of the 'universal' criteria for rubbishness, and I don't know what it is they're trying to do, my comments would likely be misguided. As for this story, I do not think it is as mediocre as you make it out to be. Perhaps that is because I wrote it. I think you are annoyed that horus8 likes it, because you don't like it and you can't see why he does. I may be wrong. I think he likes it for the same reason I wrote it, which is one of those things that is nearly impossible to succinctly explain. Or maybe he is just being incredibly ironic, and he hates it. Who knows?!?! Good comment though!!
Re: I've got the eaten my crustacean soulmate blues by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	22-Aug-02/4:08 PM
Don't be silly. Nothing is better than 'AIDS in a Glass'.
Re: saving myself for marriage by Venus	22-Aug-02/3:59 PM
Look here, PAKI: Venus already said what the allusion was, so I clearly wasn't trying to actually prevent anyone from finding out what the allusion was to. I was merely trying some role play of a jealous child who knows something and doesn't want anyone else to know. That's because I find that sort of child incredibly amusing. Perhaps you were playing the role of a feckless, generic-beratement-generating dumbfuck! If so, good job!!
Re: saving myself for marriage by Venus	22-Aug-02/3:09 PM
Don't tell them Venus! If they don't get that delightful allusion already, they don't deserve to understand.
Re: ode to bad taco meat by gay	22-Aug-02/1:56 PM
Someone on this site must think that imitative mockery is a difficult or interesting form of taunting. It is not. This work is devoid of any of the wond'rous splendour that infuses my heav'nly odes. I will thank you, Sir, to cease your mediocre attempts at parody afore ye make a worse fool our of yourself than ye already are.
Re: Awesome Heir by Shin-Bojangles	22-Aug-02/1:54 PM
god'swife, i'm sure when you have a special degree in gender identity, every discussion about sex must seem like a confusion in your specialist area. But that's no reason to use absurd words like "dick" and "pussy".
Re: Awesome Heir by Shin-Bojangles	22-Aug-02/11:20 AM
Jesus Christ, woman! Will you stop making the same point over and over and actually read what I said? I am NOT making any sort of point about gender identity. I am not attempting to give you my views on what makes a person male or female. I am making the extremely simple point that ALTHOUGH SEX ORGANS CAN BE 'MALE' OR 'FEMALE' IN ONE SENSE, IT IS NOT THE SAME SENSE IN WHICH ANIMALS ARE 'MALE' OR 'FEMALE'. I am a male. My sex organs, however, are not males. They are 'male sex organs', but that's not to say that they're sex organs that are male. In the same way, to say that something's a fake Picasso is not to say it's a Picasso that is fake (it isn't a Picasso at all). French letters are not letters that are French. 'Male sex organs' just means those sex organs most associated with males, or at the very least it does not indicate that the sex organs themselves are 'male' in the same way that I am male. OK? Do you see what I am saying? I don't give two fucks about the ins and outs of gender identity in people; nor do I have any particular opinions on the subject.