Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/7:48 AM
Precarious? You seem grounded from here. Phd., job, wife. Are you a closet bohemian? Do you long for opium heavy orgies? Drunken brawling? Are you a English rose who longs for the gutter?
Re: Noblesse Oblige by Christof	25-Sep-02/7:37 AM
You're sick with talent. How do I learn to write about things outside myself? I love feeling incompetent. It motivates me.
Re: The Nights Draw In by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/7:32 AM
I wish I could right as directly as you. You don't seem at all pretentious.
Re: WLPAN by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/7:27 AM
I'm falling in love with you. You are one of the few best of luck to you.
Re: visitation by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/7:21 AM
Thanks for the tour. You make me nosatalgic for a place I've never seen.
Re: The Left Book Club by Nicholas Jones	25-Sep-02/7:16 AM
Please write a short story.
Re: Horseflies and Mayflies, Incessant Today by Christof	24-Sep-02/9:16 AM
This poem makes me happy. I built a whole world around it. This and Butcher are my favorites. I hope your girl appreciates your poetry. I off to enlightened the masses. Today we're talking about violencia domestica. Have a lovely evening.
Re: Taffy by knickytoy	24-Sep-02/8:34 AM
I never did like Taffy, but I ate it. I like this poem.
Re: Since The Fall by harrytuttle	24-Sep-02/8:28 AM
L12 & 13 could be a poem on there own, Good. the last 2 lines are over used. I think the poem would do better without them.
Re: Morning conflict by INTRANSIT	24-Sep-02/8:19 AM
This is adorable. I don't understand the lack of triumph at the end.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	24-Sep-02/8:14 AM
I think I'm beginning to understand what your saying, if no one ever loved or appreciated VanGogh's paintings, would they be art? Good question, and you're right I don't have the answer. So this is a poem, simply because the author wrote it as won. I'm stubborn, but not unreasonable. I thank you for the discussion.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	24-Sep-02/12:13 AM
It's not about power. Expression is not poetry. No more then a wall well painted is art.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	24-Sep-02/12:08 AM
But even when they "tell it like it is" as you put it, they make it uniquely interesting. They don't just say what happened in some unstylized manner.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	24-Sep-02/12:02 AM
I cannot deny it holds no poetry for me. Some people hate any number of "artists" therefore their creations are not art to those that don't like them. I can believe I am the greateast artist in the world but til I have an audience, I'm shit. I can say this is not a poem. This is not a poem.
Re: a comment on Triangle of the Courtyard Square by OneFingerAnswer	23-Sep-02/11:54 PM
Yes, but I long for the He's, She's and Me's to be more seperate. Like a triangle. Each coming from his own direction. I think S2 is quite fine. If you can keep them seperate somehow. Bring them together at the end. Maybe write 3 stanzas were you address them and their needs individually. This is more of a pentagram then a triangle.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	23-Sep-02/11:45 PM
There's nothing wrong with it. Beans are beans. Some people add garlic, a bit of rosemary, a little olive oil perhaps. They make a poem of it. Otherwise it plain beans. Which would you rather?
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	23-Sep-02/11:42 PM
They have everything to do with the quality of this poem. I mean love as in love as writers.
Re: Triangle of the Courtyard Square by OneFingerAnswer	23-Sep-02/11:37 PM
It doesn't work. S4 L5 is muddled.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	23-Sep-02/11:29 PM
Or if not simile some other poetic slight of hand, of which this has none.
Re: a comment on Unveiled by aperfecttool77	23-Sep-02/11:26 PM
I'm not defining. Who do you love? Do they write with simile or not?