Re: a comment on First Love by Dovina	8-Sep-05/4:18 AM
Oh. Remind me again, what's this conversation about?
Re: Watch where you're swingin' your dipthong, buddy by INTRANSIT	6-Sep-05/3:54 AM
Diphthong, actually. And yes it is a funny word. I don't see how it has much to do with the rest of the poem, except that Frank, you, and Seattle (among others) are, in fact, diphthongs.
Re: Stardust by TLRufener	6-Sep-05/3:48 AM
You know what I think is genius? How you've given a poem exactly the same name as one of the most famous songs of all time, yet your poem and the song are so dissimilar. I mean, check out these lyrics from the original: And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little moon starts to climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wandered down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust of yesterday The music of the years gone by Sometimes I wonder why I spend a lonely night dreaming of a song The melody haunts my reverie, and I am once again with you When our love was new and each kiss an inspiration But that was long ago, now my consolation is in the stardust of a song. Beside a garden wall, when stars are bright, you are in my arms The nightingale tells his fairy tale Of paradise where roses grew Though I dream in vain, in my heart it will remain My stardust melody, The memory of love's refrain Is there any point on which your poem didn't take a new and astonishing direction? No! Not a one! Beautiful. -10-
Re: Letting Go by longships	6-Sep-05/3:39 AM
LOVE/ABOVE ALERT... LOVE/ABOVE ALERT... PLEASE TRAVEL TO http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=97622 AND AWAIT EVACUATION.
Re: this has happened more than a few times by ay deee	6-Sep-05/3:36 AM
Consider the possibility that you are actually insane.
Re: Baudelaire: The Albatross by Sasha	5-Sep-05/5:54 AM
The first line-and-a-half is the best opening I've read recently.
Re: a comment on First Love by Dovina	5-Sep-05/3:34 AM
Yes. Dovina wakes up on a winter morning and sees the sunrise and thinks it will stay. The other 5,999,999,999 people on earth wake up and say, Oh, a sunrise, too bad it won't stay. But then, they're not poets. Do you see my point? PS-Yes, I know it's a metaphor. Ibid.
Re: a comment on How Angels Sleep by Dovina	5-Sep-05/3:27 AM
I suggest changing to title of the poem to either "How Not-Real Angels Sleep" or "Not How Real Angels Sleep, But How Things that Are Kind Of Like Angels (Or Would Be Like Angels If They Didn't Sleep Differently From Angels) Sleep" to avoid confusing us literal-minded.
Re: Strength by Dovina	5-Sep-05/3:24 AM
The amount you should think he disapproves is, "pretty much, but not to an extent or in a way that necessitates raging." Is it?
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	3-Sep-05/5:00 AM
The men put worn and patched sandals on their feet and wore old clothes. All the bread of their food supply was dry and mouldy. Joshua 9:5
Re: The Absense of God by Bluemonkey	3-Sep-05/4:25 AM
Also, not a haiku.
Re: The Absense of God by Bluemonkey	3-Sep-05/4:25 AM
Where'd he go?
Re: First Love by Dovina	3-Sep-05/4:22 AM
Um, because seasons and sunrises USUALLY stay? Forgive me if I think the problem's your expectation, not the sunrise.
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	31-Aug-05/5:51 AM
That's not at all what I'm saying. You can't say the highest number I can think of is 100 so infinity is 101, because that means you can think of 101. The highest number you can think of has to be at least a bajillion for things to start getting interesting. By which I mean, not at all interesting. Regarding the rest of your comment, obviously we're here in some way.
Re: Present, tense by INTRANSIT	31-Aug-05/5:32 AM
I'm betting you live in a hurricane path, and the windows are now a stained glass driveway. Am I close?
Re: a comment on Wrapping a Gift by Dovina	31-Aug-05/5:22 AM
Um, okay. But the song's originally by the Pixies on Surfer Rosa. It's a different song when you hear odd, fat Frank Black singing that line.
Re: Lessons(revised) by bellafuego	31-Aug-05/5:10 AM
Why does the first line have a question mark after it? Would you say you've learned all the things there are to learn in life now? The reason I'm asking is because fifteen minutes before you wrote this poem, you could have written a poem saying Some things I've learned: 2 + 2 = 4, Translation always works, The sky's always blue etc, and been just as wrong. In fact, I imagine you writing this exact same poem every fifteen minutes for the rest of your life and always being exactly the same amount wrong. Wouldn't that be something? What do you think about that?
Re: a comment on The Servant and The Messenger by ALChemy	31-Aug-05/4:59 AM
I'd like to suggest that you prefer Summum creation theories because, one, the word Summum is kind of funny and fun to say, and, two, because when you say you prefer Summum creation theories people look at you and say 'wow, that's pretty out there, man,' and don't know enough about what your talking about to object. Summum creation is not substantively different from any other creation including the one where the world's on the back of a floating tortoise. And it's high time you admitted that Summum philosophy, both as you've quoted it and as it's actually said, has nothing to do with antimatter, and you just made that part up. As far as nothingness goes (and, despite everything, apparently continues to go), it's silly to say that the potential of nothingness to create something comes from the nothingness itself and not from the something-created. Besides that, there's no reason to believe nothingness ever created anything. Again, that strikes me as something that you believe in so you can believe in God. Which is kind of a backwards way of going about things, if true.
Re: a comment on Apollinaire: Mirabeau Bridge by Sasha	26-Aug-05/6:48 AM
Maybe we're both riffing on the same standard.
Re: Quietus Proprietus by INTRANSIT	26-Aug-05/6:45 AM
No, you shouldn't. It's bordering on overcleverness now (you know the kind: the turn-of-phrase or hidden rhyme won't fit in the poem but you just can't stop yourself from including it.) I like all of this except "she was in the perfect autumn ensemble"