regarding some deleted poem...	7-Mar-04/9:17 AM
I just noticed that almost half (28) of your poems posted here are titled "ADJECTIVE NOUN" (ie, "Tarantella Lullaby", "Bonsai Girl", "Dog Days", and so on.) Actually, those aren't even ADJ-NOUN titles; they're all NOUN-NOUN. I don't think you should be allowed to do that for awhile - if merely for variety's sake.
Re: Metametahaiku by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	7-Mar-04/10:16 AM
How on earth did 'Meta-Ku' ever become a category? Nentwined, do you realise what you've done?! Congratulations on programming as a poem-form.
Re: Terrors Children by BrandonW	7-Mar-04/2:57 PM
I'm going to start counting, and if I get to 10 you're out of the pool for the rest of the day: (1) Terror's is possessive, with an apostrophe. (2) You are not a refugee; I don't believe you for an instant. (3) in fact, the so-called 'information' in your so-called poem is either forty years out-of-date or dangerously disgustingly and dangerously wrong. Oh, the poor 'victims' of a terrible 'regime' have been driven to our 'friend' Pakistan! Huzzah for friendly Pakistan! Pigheaded bullshit. What did those poor refugees do? Cart their simple possessions across the highest most desolate part of the planet? Bullshit and bullshit. (4) This poem has no rhyme - yes it does - no, wait, it doesn't again. (5) 'Me' and 'feet' do not rhyme. (6) The end of a line is not the same thing as punctuation. (7) I'm still enraged by the ignorant bullshit propaganda-swallowing of this crap poem. Or maybe you were referring to the Muslim emigration from India in 1947-8. Way to keep up on current events, ace! (8) 'Some nights - I still do face defeat' is just laughable - as is, 'No education, or higher learning.' (9) 'Pray religon [sic]; it finds me' is the second worst use of a semicolon on this site this week. Not to mention that this so-called sentence makes absolutely no sense. And religion is misspelled - which is to be understood, I suppose, since you are a recent immigrant to Pakistan. (10) "A foreign sand... under my feet."
regarding some deleted poem...	8-Mar-04/8:55 AM
Hey - good.
regarding some deleted poem...	8-Mar-04/4:25 PM
Oh my God...
regarding some deleted poem...	8-Mar-04/4:25 PM
Nice enjambment! You've been practicing!
Re: The Cessation of Fidelity by wilco	9-Mar-04/1:47 PM
Do you think _Evanescence_ is the best band ever?
Re: Brethren by richa	9-Mar-04/1:53 PM
'clock:' - with a colon. I like 'like girls' - without 'the'. I don't get the punctuation in the last line.
Re: Zodiac's Visit to Micky D's by Oej-Oej	10-Mar-04/12:22 PM
I find it funny that 'Oej-Oej' is 'Jeo-Jeo' spelled backwards.
regarding some deleted poem...	10-Mar-04/2:01 PM
re: "It still seems a little ambiguous to my brain glandes. What if the pursuit of your own happiness conflicts with your allowing others to pursue happiness after their own fashion? Should you just pursue your own happiness regardless? Or should you compromise your own happiness in order to allow another to pursue their own happiness?" - Concern for another's happiness is an admirable goal, and I'd recommend it to anyone. But since you cannot know with any certainty that the person you are attempting to make happy is, in fact, happier for your efforts, you would be wiser (from a purely mathematical standpoint) to consider your own happiness (of which you can be reasonably certain) first, and theirs second. Does that help?
Re: Brethren by richa	10-Mar-04/2:38 PM
Wait - where did the apples go?
Re: Zodiac's Visit to Micky D's by Oej-Oej	11-Mar-04/4:02 AM
Why would you have re-posted this with no changes at all? Would it be to force me (at least) to vote/comment on it so you can claim, if I rank it low, that I'm petty and childish? And if I rank it high, that I'm weak-willed and awestricken by your skill? And if I say that this is utter crap and based on nothing very closely resembling the reality of my life, that that was the point anyway and I'm (again) petty and childish? Or if I say anything at all, that tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans can be an stimulus for a weak economy? Very well. You leave me no choice but to employ the poemranker's most deadly weapon, THE GIANT COILING POEME-EMBROWNING PATENTLY-FALSE -=DARK_ANGEL=- TEN OF SHAME!!!!!!!!! -10- -10- -10- -10- -10- Hahahahahaha!!!
Re: Love actually by kawakurdi	11-Mar-04/4:08 AM
I'm thinking of writing a poem inspired by this poem, which is decent (actually). Do you think it would be okay if I called it "Love Actually - Inspired by the poem Love Actually - Inspired by the film Love Actually"? Thanks for your advice.
regarding some deleted poem...	11-Mar-04/1:21 PM
This form sucks. Sorry, it's not you - I mean that. I don't think anyone could make it sound good.
Re: Being by horus8	12-Mar-04/4:06 AM
Congratulations on the Top 20 coup. Jeremi still looks like A.C. Slater, though. -10-
regarding some deleted poem...	12-Mar-04/8:14 PM
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regarding some deleted poem...	13-Mar-04/6:14 AM
Honest question: Does saying you are not liable for malcontent actually protect you from liability? Is it, in fact, understood that, after reading your disclaimer, I continue at my own risk? I know nothing of that kind of lawyerly talk, and so I am constantly being poked, rash-covered, burned, and given cancer by things I probably should have the sense to avoid. Your response could help me to substantially increase the quality of my life; that is, if I didn't already have cancer from eating McDonald's apple pies.
Re: Sometimes it Hurts... by mindsigns	13-Mar-04/7:26 AM
I have a funny feeling you started writing this as a non-rhyming poem and ended up by just making amateurish couplets, which makes this poem the epitome of hackness times two for being inconsistent. If you actually did mean for 'blows' to rhyme with 'clothes', 'mind' to go with 'wine', and 'lie' and 'night' to have some association, then please ignore pretty much all of the foregoing and congratulations on some really clever writing. Oh, and this poem could really benefit from being properly punctuated and capitalized and from having some cliches (like the last line) de-cliched.
Re: Eris, my blade, the accurst villanelle by SupremeDreamer	13-Mar-04/12:22 PM
Several of these lines are short syllables - 2, 5, and 7, to begin with. And do you mean for us to read "cursed" the -=Dark_Angel=- way, or the one-syllable way? You have both.
Re: Eris, my blade, the accurst villanelle by SupremeDreamer	13-Mar-04/2:08 PM
I don't know if you've read any of these, SD. I think they're pretty great. You have to scroll to the bottom: www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page8.html