Re: a comment on Goodbye by Nicholas Jones	25-Nov-02/8:06 AM
Yes. I accept all responsibility for these mistakes. Actually, I might blame Bill Gates instead.
Re: a comment on The Autopsy (as shown on Channel Four) by Nicholas Jones	22-Nov-02/3:59 AM
I needed the bucket because I thought I was going to spew. It was grim viewing, but somehow I wanted to watch it to see how I would react.
Re: a comment on Goodbye by Nicholas Jones	22-Nov-02/3:25 AM
Done
Re: a comment on Goodbye by Nicholas Jones	22-Nov-02/3:24 AM
I'm glad you like my poem. I only have one Welsh half, too. But now I am living in Wales and studying Anglo-Welsh poetry all day that half seems to have have got bigger. As it happens, I really don't care about the football. Wales beats an obscure ex-Soviet republic in the Caucasus and everyone gets very excited. There are better things to care about.
Re: a genius by moonUnit	20-Nov-02/1:43 AM
Are you the child of Mr. Zappa? This is a nicely melancholic, elegiac poem, and it uses the word shoulderblades. Excellent.
Re: Orange Hills (Villanelle) by Moss	20-Nov-02/1:34 AM
I'm unconvinced this is actually a villanelle, but then I'm an incorrigible pedant. It is pretty good, though; the first stanza is by far the best. Have you been reading the great Dylan? He was fond of his womb images.
Re: a comment on Haiku Gymraeg by Nicholas Jones	20-Nov-02/1:31 AM
There must be somebody out there who knows some Welsh. If you only want to contact people, write in Chinese. Now that would be interesting. It was an intellectual challenge. I apologise for nothing. Traditional Welsh poetry works by counting syllables, whereas in English it works by stresses. I think the middle line is particularly nice.
Re: a comment on Haiku Gymraeg by Nicholas Jones	20-Nov-02/1:26 AM
I could tell you how the Welsh Englyn has many similarities to a haiku, but it would take too long. Actually, I'll do it anyway. A source on the internet says of the englyn: 'This is a form of thirty syllables arranged in lines of ten, six, seven and seven syllables. There is one end-rhyme, but in the first line one, two or three syllables layer the rhyming word, and are echoed in the first words of the second line. Cynghanedd (literally "harmony", where there is an internal alliteration - certain consonants are made to recur regularly within a line) is necessary.' Basically, I'd just come home from learning Welsh for two hours (I'm a long way from fluent in the language), and just did it for fun. By the way, a double L in Welsh is a sort of guttural 'cl' sound, as in Llanelli. Oh, and one of the roles of are is to provoke and confuse the audience, which I think I managed.....
Re: a comment on I'm a homicidal kind of guy (spoof of every 'down-home' song you've ever heard) by Yardbird	19-Nov-02/7:07 AM
I personally like his song about nuclear proliferation called 'Who's Next?'. Or the mighty 'Masochism Tango'
Re: a comment on Time to Kill by Shin-Bojangles	19-Nov-02/7:00 AM
It was a Harry Hill reference - greatest comedian in the world. You've got to have a system.
Re: a comment on Haiku Gymraeg by Nicholas Jones	19-Nov-02/6:55 AM
Translated, it would roughly mean: I have to go out. I don't like, he doesn't understand. I have no problem. But it really does lose something in translation. Actually, it was just some phrases I remember from my Welsh classes. But they sound nice together.
Re: a comment on Haiku Gymraeg by Nicholas Jones	19-Nov-02/6:53 AM
I think you'll find it's Welsh. And why the hell shouldn't I write in the Welsh language? Is there any rule on poemranker that says we must use English? I'm asserting my cultural heritage. Welsh was my grandfather's first language. And no, I didn't need a dictionary. I'll admit it doesn't make much sense, even if you speak Welsh, but what the hell, it's art.
Re: Time to Kill by Shin-Bojangles	19-Nov-02/4:52 AM
The barn owl and the tawny owl - they're the main two.
Re: Litany of the Mullet by Shin-Bojangles	19-Nov-02/4:51 AM
I think the fish must be offended by being compared to the haircut. Who had the best mullet in history? I vote for Kevin Keegan
Re: Duff by Off_Chance	19-Nov-02/4:50 AM
Duff Beer for you Duff Beer for me You have a Duff I'll have one too.
Re: a comment on Recent History by Nicholas Jones	15-Nov-02/4:46 AM
It astonishes me how people can't cope with a bit of politics. You're a bit late to slag off this poem, really. It happened months ago. Read the comments above and weep with sorrow for the world today.
Re: My love for another. by cleverdevice	15-Nov-02/4:09 AM
This isn't a sonnet. It ain't iambic. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's not a sonnet. Call it something else.
Re: a comment on Goodbye by Nicholas Jones	15-Nov-02/3:22 AM
The person in the poem isn't me. It's a character I invented out of my own head, who isn't real. Although I do live in an attic room. I'll give a prize to anyone who can work out where I got the mollusc king from. There's a clue in my personal details on this site.
Re: Perversions by razorgrin	8-Nov-02/2:25 AM
Wow. That's original.
Re: Emotionless by Roisin	7-Nov-02/4:53 AM
Nice. You combine the haiku with concrete poetry - the poem is jagged because of the lenght of the middle line.