| Re: Focus by MacFrantic |
30-Nov-05/1:22 AM |
Why all the linebreaks? "I couldn't believe my sight" isn't a real expression, or particularly grammatical.
"spleen and spry" is good, but you know for all intents and purposes they're opposites, right?
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| Re: it's damp after closing by hendrimike |
30-Nov-05/1:20 AM |
I can't get past "we can all remember the past". There are about a million reasons why that's just not right. For example:
1. No, many people can't.
2. What you think you remember isn't really the past.
The rest of this is good at what it's trying to do.
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| Re: a comment on The mountain has come to Mohammed by ALChemy |
30-Nov-05/12:57 AM |
Jeff Bridges is the greatest actor alive because of his distinctive beard. Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, also only became respectable once they got beards. Moral of the story: Beard thyself. Hirsutamus papaliter.
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:54 AM |
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This and your Indian post kind of confirm my idea that people with dyslexia tend to have better-developed rhythmic and auditory senses than the rest of us. I knew a dyslexic poet on another site who could hardly follow a normal paragraph of text but had the most amazing and genius sprung rhythm I've ever seen.
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| Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:49 AM |
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Almost. But then you have to think, people at that time didn't really write like that, did they? People in this airy New-Agey time do. Hmmmm.
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| Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:48 AM |
It was a dis. Top five biggest zodiac disses:
1. Your stupid.
2. Your Arab.
3. Your pants are down and you don't know it.
4. Meat-hat.
5. People don't want to sleep with you.
By my rules, the aboveposted is a two-fer.
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| Re: a comment on Picking Up Sins by BrandonW |
30-Nov-05/12:44 AM |
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| Re: a comment on A Modern Woman by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:43 AM |
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That's ridiculous. I've never heard anything like that. That woman was probably tortured into saying so.
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:41 AM |
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Of course he does. He has everything. The real question is whether he also has a serious sensitive side, and how that works out.
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:39 AM |
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Sure it makes sense. It's just not clever.
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:39 AM |
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You mean for people to associate your poem with a popular song about God. Your version is about a non-virgin Mary doing a Heavenly Dick. Now you're offended if someone says you're off-doctrine? Whatever.
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:36 AM |
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The third and fourth are "John Dickup" and "Joan Bigdyke".
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:34 AM |
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The second is that in two years of claiming to be John Updike on poemranker, only about three users have known he's a real person.
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
30-Nov-05/12:33 AM |
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The best thing about John Updike is the Krusty the Klown line, "Shut up, Updike." My wife tells me that's her new SMS ring.
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
29-Nov-05/3:33 AM |
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
29-Nov-05/3:28 AM |
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
29-Nov-05/3:22 AM |
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Well, you have to know that I wrote 90% of "Beard My Homemade Negro Jesus", the most epic poem on poemranker ever.
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| Re: a comment on Silent Night by Dovina |
29-Nov-05/3:20 AM |
Your comment got lost in the rankersphere. Sorry.
I haven't been accused of being -=Dark_Angel=-, mostly because everybody who cares knows he's given me more hell than anybody else, except maybe -=Dark_Angel=-part2. I have been accused on poemranker of being a "suck-egg dog", a "dolly-mop", and "a hopeless Gay introvert," but the worst was when Dovina accused me of having expectations.
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| Re: a comment on Games by BrandonW |
29-Nov-05/3:05 AM |
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Not bad. Billy Collins isn't awful, but didn't deserve to be US Poet Laureate. I imagine some educated people made a big list of poets who hadn't criticized the war yet, and W just picked the one from Texas.
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| Re: Silent Night by Dovina |
29-Nov-05/3:01 AM |
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