regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/12:28 PM
You know, both you and DA are the only ones on this site that refer to me as PAKI, all caps, etc...hmmm. Anyway, on to the comment. I try to avoid this type of argument because it always falls back to the Shakespeare question. Was he the greatest writer or simply the greatest thief? Byron was quality (although many would disagree he is even the best of his generation) and maybe better than anyone on this site and maybe better than anyone writing today, but the style, the content, the fact that modernism was still a zygote, well I find it too tough to compare. Same thing with Mikey and the modern painters. Plus, it depends what you are looking for. The difference is a canyon. So I will not judge works on this site against a bygone period. I will judge them in the context they are being written, and if you do that you will find some "good" and maybe even "excellent" work on this site, although it does take a bit of serious mining for any consistency to this fact.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/12:47 PM
I do not think all "modern" is good. That would be lumping and modern could be Modern, or Post Modern or post Modern contemporary new pre modern. But I am hip with the times beaker. I do not live in an age gone by. And although I love the work of the dead poets as much as anyone, I am open to change and to new things and I may be ugly and hate the other ugly children but I can appreciate when someone writes a damn fine poem, like the one above here.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/12:51 PM
It is a different time and an expanded and different language, why stick with the old ways of doing something. It is not better; it is just different. Why would I want to write like Bryon. My experience is different; my language is different. I think you are a bit off base. Poetry evolves. The talent can be the same, just a different era. Respect the old, love it, but move on. And I believe that is the issue.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/12:54 PM
And could Mikey really do that; would the experience be there; would the love and understanding for the sea be there and show through? I don't think so. Could he paint it? Sure. Could he reproduce what the painting really says, well I think he would need Turner's experience.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/1:10 PM
That is purely hypothetical. His experience would be completely different and he probably would not have written the same. And I did not say Mikey lacked emotion, he lacked Turner's emotion.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/1:12 PM
I hit the chat and the screen comes up blue with a multicolored square at the top. I think mine is broken, or my computer sucks.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/1:18 PM
I agree, but they would be different based on the era and the experience.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/3:09 PM
Okay, I give up, beaker, settle doylum. And I would take it to the chat room, but it doesn't work on my end.
Re: Angel by pnaipoet	5-Sep-02/6:28 PM
such a sweet angel. They do that sorta thin? Watchin' o'r ya. Cute rhyme scheme. The Beaker will love this one. But me, i prefer a differn sorta poetry.
Re: Grief by ifni	5-Sep-02/6:31 PM
The redundancy sure does not sneak up on you. I am sure there are much better ways to approach such a broad subject as grief.
Re: *I am me* by savannah	5-Sep-02/6:33 PM
How can you be all these things? What is it to be stardust and dreams? What is it to be hugs and kisses? This makes no sense. And why does the title have ** around it? To the trashcan with this.
regarding some deleted poem...	5-Sep-02/6:35 PM
No you are no DA, but I like the new look. It raises you stature.
Re: Celebration by unknown	5-Sep-02/10:39 PM
Who knows? And why is it that all erotica uses the word petal describe skin, and of course, there are the heaving breasts. I see Fabio, do you? This is terrible GW. You have been single too long.
Re: The Seasons, Changes by Frass	5-Sep-02/10:41 PM
Yeah, DA. Two computers.
Re: The Seasons, Changes by Frass	6-Sep-02/8:41 AM
The two computer thing, sure that was a joke, although I never know, especially if you are on of those tech sorts. But as far as you and the beaker being the same, well, no joke there.
Re: Until Then by Katie	6-Sep-02/10:39 AM
Another Lite Brite poem from the youngster class. Everything about this poem is boring, but considering the age of the Arteest, I suppose I should find it shear genius. But trite is trite. Sorry.
Re: Your judge is you by dilips_10	6-Sep-02/10:41 AM
This poem really says nothing. If there are any specifics, they are lost in the style. Why not "you may" all the way. I was sad to see it stop.
Re: i spin you like a top by silvertongueddevil	6-Sep-02/10:46 AM
Excellent poem. Check this one out Beaker. A young and sober Bukowski. Influences showing right through, eh? What a first image.
Re: More 7-Eleven holdups. by Bachus	6-Sep-02/8:21 PM
Ha! Clever and funny. Your ID self is improving.
Re: Sunshine by alexander	7-Sep-02/2:55 PM
Look here you jealous peon, before you go into a poor poets list of work and give it all zeros so it falls from grace and of course, with all your petty user names, heighten your own stature, explain the reasoning behind your dislike to give something a 0. Come out from under your covers you measly writer of rubbish: ben/god/alex. Your work does not belong at that level. Hell, it cannot even stand up against mine. I am on to you, thanks to the Beaker, you foolish boy. Of course, you could be the Beaker.