Re: paint me a poem with pictures by nentwined	9-Nov-03/8:47 PM
Oh poet! You are my eyes' mind what cannot see but to think.
Re: African Killer Bees, it's not the smell of smoke by <{Baba^Yaga}>	23-Oct-03/6:33 PM
The poem was interesting, but the dialogue in the comments wins a medal
Re: Go On a Business Trip by abecedarian	22-Oct-03/5:15 PM
Hmmm. I think the pressed shirt imagery is enabling a more literal read than I intended. 'To what business may lead to know thyself, go on a business trip'. This poem is meant as the aquisition/appropriation of a tidy concept with the subsequent fragmentation and repackaging into a marketable value added product.
Re: a comment on Kites, Gunpowder, and a Chair by Geschäftsreise	15-Oct-03/12:33 PM
www.engrish.com
Re: a comment on Kites, Gunpowder, and a Chair by Geschäftsreise	15-Oct-03/12:31 PM
Read my poem "Pauling in Disguise". You might enjoy it (being a person in search of poetry). Are you aware that this story is a true medieval Chinese legend?
Re: a comment on Kites, Gunpowder, and a Chair by Geschäftsreise	15-Oct-03/12:27 PM
Enlighten me, effete marie. What is this 'poetry' you seek and do not find? Is it passion? Is it shock to affect? Is it message to purpose? Is it a tongue carefully coiled around a tasty phrase? Which of these things do I not possess in abundance and been ignored by you for having it - only to find you banging on my lone whimsy wall?
Re: Battle of the brains by INTRANSIT	15-Oct-03/10:05 AM
nice
Re: The Pedagogue and his son by SupremeDreamer	13-Oct-03/9:03 PM
Hopefully your dad will correct your spelling. In your dreams that is. ;) - it's "c'est la vie" (to be pedagogical)
Re: a comment on ٠صادر فلسطينية أن الاحتلال by Wobble McFly	13-Oct-03/7:45 PM
By the way, Alex, you owe me a well reasoned response to every single one of my Babelfish poetry for this Herculean effort.
Re: a comment on ٠صادر فلسطينية أن الاحتلال by Wobble McFly	13-Oct-03/7:43 PM
Hello z, here is the translation you requested... --------------------- "Confiscated Palestine" (I call my translation “News from Israel”) The orphans await confirmation of but a single chapter in the Road Map by the Security Council Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher praised the Russian envoy Vdovin confirmed the importance of action on both sides and support from the Quartet for execution of the Road Map Meanwhile, in the field, the Israeli occupation forces detained five members of Islamic Jihad in Araba, south of Jenin. A reminder
Re: a comment on ٠صادر فلسطينية أن الاحتلال by Wobble McFly	13-Oct-03/5:58 PM
I also am an ignorant, blacklisted Terrorist-American (Green Party affiliation) - similarly unskilled yet interested in language. Certainly I will post my (meager) translation. Give me until tomorrow to rebuild/polish it. Or maybe I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Re: a comment on ٠صادر فلسطينية أن الاحتلال by Wobble McFly	13-Oct-03/4:59 PM
Relax the sphincter Bachus, relax. Have you actually tried translating this online? Not on Babelfish. Ajeeb.com is the only place I found and it costs money for anything larger than 100 some characters. Assuming one doesn't have $30 spare to piss away, then one must attempt to translate it manually, which is difficult. Okay now I'll shut up, but only if you promise to get an enema.
Re: ٠صادر فلسطينية أن الاحتلال by Wobble McFly	13-Oct-03/4:26 PM
Difficult to translate. Almost as difficult as the situation itself. But I understand where you're coming from.
Re: body image by http://mulberryfairy	29-Sep-03/2:28 PM
Well played. This poem made me think: There is the classical approach where fine physique and its attainment are considered virtues - the work itself and the struggle are not masochism but something to be enjoyed. Then there is the reluctant, desperate, reactionary, and poisonous pursuit of perfection that our society is seen to espouse. What allowed the ancients to pursue this in a completely healthy way while it eats away at us? Or maybe they felt just as lacking as we do, and it is only historians, who seeing images of physical beauty, ascribe to them a sublime sense of the aesthetics of athleticism.
Re: Ctrl freak (Alt+ version) by <~>	26-Sep-03/12:09 AM
Alt+l+w+l/Ctl+v me there. Sounds like a nice place. Puppet here, puppet there - no difference to me.
Re: a comment on Pauling in Disguise (Ignorance and Arrogance) by Geschäftsreise	25-Sep-03/5:52 PM
The comment (and other comments you've made in the past). You are generally thoughtful, humble, agreeable, etc. You understood the poem, appreciated it and were thoughtful enough not to spoil it for others, these are good qualities. (how often do you get compliments on poemranker, anyway?)
Re: a comment on Pauling in Disguise (Ignorance and Arrogance) by Geschäftsreise	25-Sep-03/5:44 PM
I like you
Re: Brighton Beach by Caducus	24-Sep-03/10:14 AM
Wide fingered to pretend parents. Tasty. (I hate that place)
Re: Alone With Memories by Mona Lisa	23-Sep-03/11:11 PM
Went in grey and came out shiny black. Yum! (you even spelled 'grey'in the Geschäftsreise approved manner!) Lovely. I would change the title, though, to 'Went Out Shiny Black' or something. The poem is much more about him than you, and the title doesn't show it, I think. Perhaps you need to write a separate poem about how this made you feel and name that poem 'Alone With Memories'.
Re: a comment on this is your poetry by nentwined	23-Sep-03/8:07 PM
Oh no, I meant the poem is nice, it just might be more fulfilling for you if you hadn't told people that it was an acrostic and see if anyone comments.