Re: Contempt by Britpop	11-Dec-02/2:19 AM
Is this supposed to be satire?
Re: a comment on Poem For Times Such As These by Nicholas Jones	9-Dec-02/2:09 AM
Does nobody even like the line 'Peace processes. The Good Friday Agreement and the Oslo Accord'? Well, I do. You see, I could have put it the other way round, but then the rhythm wouldn't have worked.
Re: a comment on The Rebel by Nicholas Jones	9-Dec-02/2:06 AM
I do drink fairly milky tea, and lots of it. I don't wear a cardigan, but I am very attached to my woolly, stripy, University of St. Andrews scarf. On the biscuit front, I prefer chocolate digestives, but chocolate hobnobs are the ultimate biscuit to dunk in the aforementioned tea. As for you, have you ever seen the film 'Pi'? I think that's how you live.
Re: a comment on Poem For Times Such As These by Nicholas Jones	6-Dec-02/3:44 AM
Has nobody noticed the poetic devices such as short, incomplete sentences?
Re: a comment on The Rebel by Nicholas Jones	6-Dec-02/3:07 AM
She doesn't like being milked by strangers. I think you have to have to seen the film to understand this, otherwise you'll just think I'm weird. Have you ever watched 'The Rebel', starring Tony Hancock? It's superb.
Re: a comment on Poem For Times Such As These by Nicholas Jones	6-Dec-02/3:01 AM
Maybe I want to overwhelm the reader. Sounds like fun to me.
Re: a comment on The Dreamer by Nicholas Jones	6-Dec-02/2:52 AM
I think the lack of emotion you feel is due to the constraint of the sonnet form; I'm not sure if I really mastered it in this one. I realise it describes a state of mind rather than evoking it.
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.
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: a comment on Poem For Times Such As These by Nicholas Jones	4-Dec-02/5:42 AM
I don't mind you saying it's rubbish, if that's what you think, fine. But why deny it's a poem? When free verse became popular, people denied that was poetry. It has rhythm, although it's not pronounced. It has line breaks that I have chosen to use. I's like to think there's a bit of imagery in there, and perhaps a slightly ironic use of media discourse, refashioned to create a radical message. I simply chose to write about politics rather than how happy or sad I am today. It's poetry. Deal with it.
Re: a comment on School (a sonnet) by Nicholas Jones	4-Dec-02/5:35 AM
Thank you for your very positive comments. I quite like leaving it on a half rhyme. The sonnet offers the possibility of resolution but then fails in that task but not quite rhyming.
Re: a comment on Poem For Times Such As These by Nicholas Jones	4-Dec-02/5:32 AM
But is poetry, that's the whole point. If I'd written it in prose, it would entirely different. Trust me. I'd currently trying to complete a 15,000 word on poetic responses the valleys of South Wales. It is not the same as a poem.
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: 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: a comment on Poem For Times Such As These by Nicholas Jones	4-Dec-02/4:59 AM
But it has accomplished something. You've read it, and it pissed you off. That's something, not much, but something. Maybe, on some deep subconscious level, it might slightly affect your thinking.
Re: a comment on Elegy for Lonnie Donegan by Nicholas Jones	4-Dec-02/4:09 AM
I hope you realise I stole all the best lines. Don't give me too credit.
Re: a comment on Truths by Nicholas Jones	29-Nov-02/5:25 AM
We should all feel guilty. I feel guilty I have enough money and live a comfortable lifestyle, while people in my own country, through no fault of their own, live in grinding poverty, and millions are starving across the world, all through an accident of birth. Isn't that enough?
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: a comment on Lifted from a song- gang bang by UAFANTHORPEY	27-Nov-02/5:45 AM
That was a subtle Tom Lehrer reference, but you didn't understand it.
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)