Re: The generosity of others. by darby pyn	20-Oct-02/4:28 AM
This has a voice of its own, which is something very hard to achieve.
Re: a comment on Bowstones, 21st June 200 by Nicholas Jones	20-Oct-02/4:13 AM
It should actually read 2000, which is still a while ago. I've been plundering the archives at the back of my hard disk. Well, those that survived the great Windows 98 crash of spring 2001.
Re: a comment on Ode to Larkbeat Twoshoes by Nicholas Jones	20-Oct-02/4:11 AM
The first seven lines I wrote years ago, probably at the time the poem describes, the rest I wrote last week. For some reason, those seven lines have stayed in my mind for the last five years, exactly as I wrote them, while I've forgotten the rest. So I invented a new ending. There is a bit of a shift between the two parts, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
Re: The Limerick of Dave by worldsofwar	18-Oct-02/4:30 AM
Pretty pants. If you're going to write a limerick, try and make it scan. Or else it's not a limerick, just a freaky rhyming poem.
Re: FHjk by Dark Angle	18-Oct-02/4:28 AM
Sorry, but I think it's idiocy. Listening to The Streets raises the same dilemma, but I think in that case the answer is genius.
Re: The ballad of woosie by rosiebailey	18-Oct-02/4:26 AM
I like the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory reference. Those Oompah Loompahs always used to frighten me when I was a kid. I like the line about the squirrels - they're everywhere at the moment, stockpiling their nuts for winter.
Re: purple and black gangstaz theme tune by rosiebailey	18-Oct-02/4:24 AM
Are you Ali G's little brother?
Re: On the Swings by Christof	18-Oct-02/1:46 AM
I remember swinging as hard as I could on the swing in my back garden, then deliberately jumping off as fast as I could. I never thought of the swing as an implement of destruction, though.
Re: Stamp by worldsofwar	18-Oct-02/1:39 AM
I think you've got some problems with meter.
Re: Daniela by little_angel_maria	16-Oct-02/7:00 AM
I love a nice adolescent tantrum.
Re: haiku's i love but i cannot do them well enough by UAFANTHORPEY	16-Oct-02/6:51 AM
I bet there's a eunuch haikuist out there somewhere.
Re: Choices by Ojiboch	16-Oct-02/6:44 AM
Nice. The business about paths makes me think of Robert Frost - the road not taken.
Re: I am Cuba by cacophony	16-Oct-02/6:43 AM
No! I am Cuba.
Re: a comment on Breeze by Nicholas Jones	16-Oct-02/6:41 AM
Thank you Mr Christof for your helpful and positive comments. This came because all I can see through the window from my desk is the sky. I was trying to write an essay on poetic responses to industrial Wales, but this happened instead.
Re: Untitled by morffrom	15-Oct-02/6:44 AM
Nice pun!
Re: Dying for a Dowry by Blue Magpie	14-Oct-02/1:27 AM
The problem is its easy to disapprove of other people's cultural practices. When Britain conquered india, they declared the practice of suttee illegal, and in some ways it became a way of resisting imperial rule. It clearly is barbaric, but attacking it from outside raises comples moral issues. There's a well-known article by the post-colonial theorist Gayatri Spivak called 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' which addresses this issue, and is very good, if hard going.
Re: Limmerick, Starring Andy by MuDvAyNe	12-Oct-02/7:11 AM
Superb!
Re: bitterness to tenderness to endlessness by Crakyamuni	12-Oct-02/6:42 AM
Don't listen godswife. There's nothing wrong with dogs in trances.
Re: No sally, lay your troubles to bed by Crakyamuni	12-Oct-02/6:40 AM
Have you been reading T.S. Eliot?
Re: American Poem by ASTRO-GLIDE	12-Oct-02/6:30 AM
Is it more cowardly to fly a plane into a building and die, or to drop bombs on an Afghan wedding from an enormous height where you are safe? And people said my poem 'Recent History' was naive!