regarding some deleted poem...	24-Sep-02/6:49 PM
What I like about the tango in general is the mystery behind it. When it comes across, when you hear it, watch it, it is as distressing as it can be sexy, detached as it can be intimate. I think it is a pertinent reflection of where the tango flourishes and the people behind it. I have spent a great amount of time in Argentina (I teach Latin American studies) and it never ceases to confound me. Anyway, this poem manages to capture the double edge of what I am referring to, and I didn't think it could do it. I went in with a negative and came out with a positive. That is a rare thing. I even wanted to dislike the ending, and I did on first and second read, but by the third read, I was there. Good work GW.
Re: The Sands Of Time by squall1leonheart	24-Sep-02/7:01 PM
This is not a poem. It is a line!
Re: Punishment and Punishment again by vulcan	24-Sep-02/7:04 PM
And what about Annabel Lee? So what? Yawn!
Re: making progress (a piece of it) by Limness	24-Sep-02/7:45 PM
Okay, the first line automatically puts that Cars song in my head and I start reading the entire poem to that tune. Why is your room long?
Re: ALIVE by adrenalize	24-Sep-02/8:08 PM
How is it that, a man in this case, can face pain that kills him a million billion times? You manage to spend a good deal of time here making little sense, but hey, that's cool.
Re: myself by decadentlaurel	24-Sep-02/8:10 PM
by an emdash? hmmmm. I don't get it.
Re: Best Friends by Chels85	24-Sep-02/8:10 PM
I'm sorry, this was so painful I could not make it through the first five lines.
Re: quickie by <~>	24-Sep-02/10:19 PM
Who gave this a zero? Are you dead? Writer of triangle poems could make a "dead man come" with this poem, so you (and you know who you are) might just be foolish. The style is as fun as the act. Off to the shower.
Re: The Sea by Tarquin De La Bog	24-Sep-02/10:37 PM
Congrats. You have done the impossible and overtaken DA for the worst poem on the site. You should be proud. Have a drink on me!
regarding some deleted poem...	25-Sep-02/4:44 PM
Entrance? He has been here all along. Hear ye, oh hear ye, this is the one true god of the pimple poem!!
Re: Hey! Shut up, and cut my grass. by horus8	25-Sep-02/10:17 PM
I have got to hear you read this stuff one day.
regarding some deleted poem...	26-Sep-02/1:32 PM
You have managed to post at least 10 poems that all say the same thing the same way. Why not just make them one long epic pimple poem and be done with it. and the problem is that you mange to tell us everything and show us nothing. "I'm sad today, I was sad yesterday, and I was sad the day before that." And wrap it all up in words best left in Harry Potter books. Yes, I read them to my daughter. And if Rowling was a depressive and whined a whole hell of a lot, it would sound in the same vain as this. "That girl she broke my fragile heart, the torment of loneliness now envelops the torment of my ravaged soul, the tunnel closes before me, the shadowy light of demons now and demons past that devastate my dark desolate, dilapidated, decrepit, lonely, thoughts in the darkness of my murky loneliness like the black demise that is the darkness of this lone shadow and the blackhead that won't pop and the gun cliched cold steel against my cliched cold temple. Oh fucking woe that girl, that girl is eating away at the trigger. If I pull, if I tug, tug, tug, she we remember me always. She will remember what she did to me in my forsaken hour. God good. Write something different.
Re: AIDS Bonanza! by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	26-Sep-02/8:52 PM
DA did you lose your voice. I see you creeping around. And why is this rating at 7.17 and is not on the best poem list?
Re: Deaf by sav876	27-Sep-02/9:32 AM
The winged dolie returns from a two week bender. Not the Lost Weekend, the Lost Week. Hurrah! I for one missed you!
regarding some deleted poem...	27-Sep-02/9:52 AM
Oppressed nests!!!! Honey Bee United 125. Nice poem, one of your top notch ones. I see you have poems in the 7+ that are not showing up in the best of along with others. The site has gone crazy for Jody Conn and her lesbian poem and babbit and his shit. Anyway, I would take the comma out of the second to last line and keep the flow moving. The "you" is also a bit unclear and throws me off track. The poem is inward and the "you" takes it out of that context for a moment. But on a second read it did not bother me as much. Good work writer of triangle poems.
Re: A Time for More War by dougsoderstrom	27-Sep-02/1:26 PM
W-bubba was just in the Queen City of the Plains this morn boosting the wallet of Wayne Allard who is in a fight for his Senate life. Bushie does not do so well here, (even though our moronic guv is being touted as the next great running mate--the ultimate dumb and dumber); much like yesterday in Portland. Anyway, enough off the top of my head. Your obsession of the brewing battle aside, if there is to be a bout do you actually think it will lead to the apocalypse (that must be a joke i don't get) or just a lapse in policy that will allow W the flexibility to protect US "interests" in other places like Columbia, Iran, Brazil, on so on? To me the policy behind the war is much more dangerous then the war itself, minus the needless loss of lives. But considering your noble stance and poetic activism, wouldn't it be better to write something that is not so blatantly ridiculous? sincerely, poetandknowit, pdD.
regarding some deleted poem...	27-Sep-02/1:30 PM
Yes, Abigail is a good name for her! Wynonna and her big brown beaver aside, this poem is truly acerbating. Who would want to be your boyfriend, unless it was a drunken one night only affair?
Re: down by siberian	27-Sep-02/1:32 PM
This is poemranker, not high school, we don't have to double space here. I am sad after reading this, truly sad.
Re: Witch to Wicca by Lenore	27-Sep-02/1:43 PM
Okay, now, let's all skyclad and cloubburst, hurrah!!
regarding some deleted poem...	27-Sep-02/1:50 PM
Oh good god, will these things ever stop coming up. O why, o why! Do you watch soap operas? the daytime version? Or those talk show things. Okay, here I go, but not as much this time. There is an incredibly fine line between art that is good and art that is melodramatic sap when dealing with extraordinary emotional subjects There are good poets (in the case) who constantly tread it and are successful with it. Why? Because 1) they experienced it first hand so it is impossible not to feel as they feel and 2) they are extremely honest and observant with their self referential exploits to know that tragedy does not necessarily need to be souped up in needless adjectives and phrases. Simplicity works every time in these cases. I do not doubt you had a friend die, I do not doubt you were saddened by it, but when I read this I doubt both. Do you see my drift?