Comments byShuushin, 681–700 back. Include replies

on some deleted poem 10 Mar 2004, 9:06 AM
I wonder if the failure rate for gay marriages will be as high as the old kind?

What's the rate now - 65% failure? Marriage is a broken institution that evolution hasn't bred us to support; it literaly goes against our nature -

and the planet has enough fricken offspring, so I'm not at all worried about Ken and Bob. I welcome them and society should encourage any system modifications to support them. I would think most who seek gay marriages would pay a premium, either in taxes or some other social trick, for the priviledge. I'm surprised the idea isn't exploited to a larger extent.

Having said that, this is a cute, if meaningless, ditty. Spurred some good conversation too.


on some deleted poem 10 Mar 2004, 7:36 PM
should be "retched" not "wretched"
on Brethren by richa 10 Mar 2004, 7:43 PM
my turn to look stupid; I don't unnastand.
on Aesgntor by MacFrantic 11 Mar 2004, 7:13 AM
Flows fairly well - thinking "Sancturies" should not be plural, but possessive.

Got pulled right through the first third, (was thinking, "this is a ten, this is a ten") then I had trouble following the story ("...9....8...") - might be more complex than it needs to be?

How does one pronounce "Aesgntor?"
on Brethren by richa 11 Mar 2004, 8:41 AM
sold.
on some deleted poem 11 Mar 2004, 8:57 AM
Oh, and it's frowned upon if you give yourself a ten (even if you do it without logging in).
on some deleted poem 12 Mar 2004, 8:04 AM
I think this is one more edit from a very well done vil.

consider reworking the "summer grade" and the machine gun line.
Title rocks.
on some deleted poem 13 Mar 2004, 2:50 PM
There was some idiotic rambling from zodiac, but I have spared the audience of his nonsense.
I guess I liked it better when you threw the pineapple at her head.
on some deleted poem 13 Mar 2004, 5:27 PM
Lets try this again...
on My Boyfriend's Afro Pick by horus8 13 Mar 2004, 5:29 PM
people still wear those things? Horry shirt, what a roosah.
on To all the assholes.. by KaytiaraFaith 18 Mar 2004, 1:24 PM
I think that pretty much sums up how we all feel, all the time.

Welcome.
on some deleted poem 16 Mar 2004, 10:19 AM
Wow, I can't believe this masterpiece is only getting -8-'s

It's brilliant, I tell you - BRILLIANT!
on some deleted poem 16 Mar 2004, 11:05 AM
So many prepositions, so little time. And about that, not sure of your capability having read only this, but I'm not won over by the duplicated descriptors:

quite and calm
veiled, hidden
cream porcelain

Less is more, especially regarding images of suicide or cutting - so much competition on the topic. I guess it could be about shaving though...
on What is the use of the lid? by A. Nomaly 16 Mar 2004, 12:01 PM
only one person I know ever uses the word "lacquered", but this has nothing to do with ass....

or does it...

on some deleted poem 16 Mar 2004, 6:08 PM
Nicely done, Richa.
on Buried pyramid by zodiac 17 Mar 2004, 2:32 PM
Nice details.

It's good prose Zodiac - what's the translation?
on some deleted poem 18 Mar 2004, 11:00 AM
Beautifully wrought. Delicious in places -

*maybe* a slight word trim -here and there- but, seriously; an easy ten.
on some deleted poem 11 Mar 2004, 8:30 AM
First off - my sympathies to anyone who lost someone in that event. Welcome to Poemranker...

Some spelling to deal with:
tryed, lifes, breath, alittle, didnt, caotic

Should be: tried, life’s, breathe, a little, didn’t, chaotic

A few of the complets, regardless of truth or fiction, sound made-up, and therefore the reader begins to feel conned.

such as:

"I had just turned it off, for I could not stand the sight,
And then my phone started ringing, it was Liz she didnt sound quite
right. " (reasonable voice says: there would have been no small talk to worry about detecting trouble in her voice - she would have gotten directly to the point)

"Tom told her that he loved her, and not to give it a second thought,
He said to kiss the baby, and he was sorry last night they'd fought. " (too convenient)

In general, anytime the rhyme seems "reached for" then the circumstances become suspect and therefore the entire piece exploitive. This happens, for me, in up/cup, before/4, hear/fear (at least).

New poster tips: no title in the body, copyright is not needed (you are afforded the same protection having simply written it).