Re: a comment on Truths by Nicholas Jones	4-Oct-02/7:09 AM
I've fixed that now.
Re: a comment on Possibilities by Nicholas Jones	4-Oct-02/7:07 AM
Maybe I will. It has a viaduct that is the largest structure in Europe made of brick. As you can see, I am fiercely protective of my home town. Personally, I fancy the Tony Hancock one.
Re: a comment on Suburbia in December by Nicholas Jones	4-Oct-02/7:02 AM
I'm glad you agree. I'm getting quite obsessed with the sonnet form. I think I've finally got over reading all 129 or whatever of Shakespeare's in one week in first year.
Re: Breathless. by Service	4-Oct-02/7:00 AM
Smell the cliches a mile off. It's nice, but doesn't do it for me. Sexual innuendo gets a bit dull.
Re: #17 by mikejedw	4-Oct-02/6:41 AM
I can see a flickering cloud bank out of my window, also in autumn sunshine. This poem speaks to me. Normally, I don't like the haiku form, but this is very visual and evocative.
Re: a comment on Recent History by Nicholas Jones	4-Oct-02/6:39 AM
Its just a whim. It would amuse me to have officially written the worst poem. The joke would be that yesterday I read something which was just the single word 'fuck'. At least, I, you know, thought about it.
Re: a comment on Suburbia in December by Nicholas Jones	4-Oct-02/6:36 AM
This is now the original version of the poem, in the form of the sonnet, which I think now was much better.
Re: a comment on Recent History by Nicholas Jones	3-Oct-02/7:22 AM
by the way, can everybody out there give this poem zero so it can officially become the worst poem on poemranker? I would be very happen to achieve these remarkable feat. I thank you all.
Re: boom by UAFANTHORPEY	3-Oct-02/7:00 AM
Who did that 'boom shaka laka' song? I also detect the 'wicky wicky wah' influence of Will Smith. Not sure what Mrs. Fanthorpe would think, though.
Re: a comment on one word by Blade	3-Oct-02/6:50 AM
By the way, I'm the only person to vote, and gave it zero, but the average is 4.76. Have the laws of mathematics been suspended?
Re: one word by Blade	3-Oct-02/6:49 AM
Come on, there's not much point, is there?
Re: Instructions to a Sculptor by Christof	1-Oct-02/6:04 AM
Very nice; perfection is impossible and not desirable. Is the 'score' a reference to the very idea of rating art i.e. exactly what we're engaged in here?
Re: MY LOVE FOR YOU by Normo	29-Sep-02/4:56 AM
Not bad - and the last stanza is stronger than the first two.
Re: Life As a Boat by dougsoderstrom	29-Sep-02/4:54 AM
I like this, but it doesn't really achieve anything on its own.
Re: A Time for More War by dougsoderstrom	29-Sep-02/4:54 AM
This is irony, right? Let's hope so.
Re: The Poop Machines by dougsoderstrom	29-Sep-02/4:53 AM
Can't really argue with that.
Re: Gemini by susie	29-Sep-02/4:42 AM
This is good, the discussion of differing parts of one's own mind. Not sure about rhyming shaken and taking, though, but I like the idea of sacrificing the body to save the heart.
Re: AIDS Bonanza! by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	29-Sep-02/4:33 AM
If I were, I'd be too ashamed to get out of bed in the morning.
Re: a comment on #16 by mikejedw	29-Sep-02/4:23 AM
The point is, it's pretty selfish to assume the world wouldn't exist without you. I took the poem to be an ironic assertion of this fact. I also think it is pretty whimsical, somehow, which I think is often a good thing in poetry.
Re: a comment on West Sands, late afternoon in winter by Nicholas Jones	27-Sep-02/6:14 AM
I don't understand your comment, but thanks anyway. By the way, it's 'The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band', I think. They were bloody good. 'Yes I kiss her perfumed hair / But she's not there / The sweet essence of giraffe'. Things don't get much better than that.