Re: Lifted from a song- gang bang by UAFANTHORPEY	27-Nov-02/5:38 AM
Christ, I laughed more during Oedipus Rex (you may have heard about his odd complex)
Re: falling by Aggreddion	27-Nov-02/5:47 AM
Is this a positive or negative progression? Are these good things, bad things, or a bittersweet mixture of the two?
Re: HATTIE by Nicholas Monson	4-Dec-02/5:12 AM
It makes a change from the usual crude sexual innuendo found on this site.
Re: HATTIE by Nicholas Monson	4-Dec-02/5:21 AM
By the way, did you really work John Betjeman? He was a great poet, in his own way.
Re: ODE TO NICHOLAS JONES III by lukehanney	4-Dec-02/6:12 AM
This is very funny. Worth a nine. Regrettably, very few people know me outside of my own head.
Re: ODE TO NICHOLAS JONES III by lukehanney	4-Dec-02/6:22 AM
By the way, I'm genuinely honoured by being the recipient of these poems. I'm serious now, and not taking the piss.
regarding some deleted poem...	6-Dec-02/3:03 AM
Wow! It's very hard to write a good sestina (I've tried and failed), but you've succeeded. Well done. Now, try to tackle the infamous double sestina, which is twice as long....
regarding some deleted poem...	6-Dec-02/3:39 AM
Here, you took an essay and chopped it up. I wrote a poem that utilised a discourse not normally considered poetic. Have you people never heard of modernism? I could try Kant. 'Kant formulated the concept / Of the categorial imperative / Which, in its second and most interesting formulation / Declares that our guiding maxim should be / to treat other persons never simply as a means / but also simultaneously as an end. / This is ofen referred to / As the Respect for Persons Formulation / It is, Kant argues, / A perfect duty / To respect the autonomy of our fellows.' Or how about we consider these lines from the Cantos of Ezra Pound. Pound was, of course, a anti-Semite and a nazi, but a bloody good writer: A factory has also another aspect, which we call the financial aspect It gives people the power to buy (wages, dividends which are power to buy) but it is also the cause of prices or values, financial, I mean financial values It pays workers, and pays for material What it pays in wages and dividends stays fluid, as power to buy, and this power is less than the total payments made by the factory (as wages, dividends AND payments for raw material (as wages, dividends AND payments for raw material bank charges, etcetera) and all, that is the whole, that is the total of these is added into the total of prices caused by that factory, any damn factory and there is and must be therefore a clog and the power to purchase can never (under the present system) catch up with prices at large, and the light became so bright and so blindin' in this layer of paradise that the mind of man was bewildered.
regarding some deleted poem...	6-Dec-02/3:41 AM
By the way, Hobbes was a reactionary unable to believe in the goodness of man. Life doesn't have to nasty brutish and short (as opposed to this poem, which is nasty, brutish and long)
regarding some deleted poem...	6-Dec-02/3:41 AM
I think it's time for a poem on why Americans are frightened by left wing politics.
Re: Contempt by Britpop	11-Dec-02/2:19 AM
Is this supposed to be satire?
Re: The Elephant Olympics by Yardbird	11-Dec-02/2:36 AM
This is very funny indeed. But the medication joke is a cheap ending not up to the standard of the rest.
Re: Blues by Christof	7-Jan-03/6:04 AM
Ah - the old post-Christmas depression? This has intensity yet comedy. I hope it is not too autobiographical.
Re: profile of an abuser by inka	10-Jan-03/4:02 AM
I like the twee self censorship of blocking out your own swearwords. My, how Derrida would laugh!
Re: Fuck by Bobjim	15-Jan-03/3:33 AM
I'm in a university library. I'll probably be thrown out for displaying that many obscenities. Did you paste, or write each one by hand. Sixpence a week for cheek, Mr. Morel!
Re: not even soup by <~>	16-Jan-03/6:57 AM
Very nice indeed, especially the last line; physical bodily processes have their effect on psychology - President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal because he had toothache, or something. I like soup, especially tomato, but I a bagel for lunch today, which I filled with brie and put in a hot oven for fifteen minutes, and ate with cranberry sauce.
Re: Death by dougsoderstrom	16-Jan-03/7:47 AM
Hello Professor Doug - this isn't really a haiku, but who cares? There should be more religious verse on poemranker. Maybe I will try to write some.
Re: Jesus was the Antichrist by TheDevil	23-Jan-03/8:14 AM
Christ! The post-modernity mades my legs ache. Say hello to Jacques for me.
Re: Starving at Tiffany's by horus8	24-Jan-03/7:51 AM
And I said what about Brekfast at Tiffanies? And you said I think I remember the film And then you said well we both kinds of liked it And I said well that's one thing we got
Re: The darkest woods ever by Shardik	24-Jan-03/8:03 AM
Very atmospheric. As ever, about the gap between reality and perception - or, to use Kantian terms, noumenon and phonemenon. Also, the last line reminds of a song by Half Man Half Biscuit called 'The Light at the End of the Tunnel is the Light of an Oncoming Train'. And anything that reminds me of the mighty merseyside combo must be good!