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Depth of Illusion (Free verse) by Beyond_Dreams
She danced in beauty throughout the night, the impressionable chill of the Starry Night; Her eyes twinkled bright like a continuous painting of delicate delight. Swirled with gold and trimmed with desire, she nestled under the slumbering tree curled up in a ball with Georgia O'Keeffe. Waited for sun break to let the lilies free, and as her eyes closed feeling the warmth from the sun; and the hush of the wind, Picasso painted 'The Dream' and she waited until the moon licked the lake once more.

Up the ladder: Cassius
Down the ladder: wishes

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Arithmetic Mean: 6.571429
Weighted score: 5.422622
Overall Rank: 3054
Posted: January 30, 2005 6:08 PM PST; Last modified: January 30, 2005 6:10 PM PST
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[n/a] zodiac @ 212.118.11.12 | 31-Jan-05/5:43 AM | Reply
The first two lines are plagiary.
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > zodiac | 31-Jan-05/11:12 AM | Reply
What the hell are you talking about?
[9] Dovina @ 205.184.71.11 > Beyond_Dreams | 31-Jan-05/11:29 AM | Reply
He means he's jealous and lonesome, like a desert rat. He wants you to humor him with objections. Really, though this is not bad, pretty nice really.
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > Dovina | 31-Jan-05/12:44 PM | Reply
Thank You
[n/a] SupremeDreamer @ 66.2.5.19 > Beyond_Dreams | 31-Jan-05/6:20 PM | Reply
The beginning is cliche, in other words, and can be noted in countless other pieces.

It's not exactly plagiarising, but zodiac likes to get the rankerfolk all rawled up... It's good fun, getting people all defensive... anyway, you can do better than that.
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > SupremeDreamer | 31-Jan-05/6:41 PM | Reply
"It's good fun getting people all defensive" --
Yes! we make 'm stew, make 'm cry, make 'm pensive
but not you -- you just sputter
and endlessly mutter
how little it means to you when rankers the tens give.
[n/a] DreamerSupreme @ 66.2.5.28 > Goad | 31-Jan-05/8:38 PM | Reply
Maybe they should award me the apathy harness.
[n/a] zodiac @ 212.118.14.17 > SupremeDreamer | 1-Feb-05/5:33 AM | Reply
That's not at all what I mean. Academically, it is plagiarism.

The part about simply trying to upset rankers has never been true. Anyway if would be stupid to try, since poemranker users are amazing at not getting upset even over the most rabid cockbattings. I think this is because they're all poets and therefore masochists. And they can justify pretty much anything by saying things like 'he just likes to get people rawled up'. My intention, as always, is always only to point out mistakes. And I've had a change of heart on top of that. QED.
[n/a] zodiac @ 212.118.14.17 > zodiac | 1-Feb-05/5:53 AM | Reply
This comment was for SupremeDreamer. I don't know why.
[9] Dovina @ 12.72.14.108 > zodiac | 1-Feb-05/7:43 AM | Reply
Because you can't follow the simple structure set up for us by nentwined, or follow the subject being discussed.
[n/a] zodiac @ 212.118.11.12 > Dovina | 1-Feb-05/9:29 PM | Reply
I can never follow any subject you're discussing. Everytime I think I have, you say "you've missed the point" and then start arguing something totally opposite.
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > zodiac | 1-Feb-05/5:59 AM | Reply
please don't change your heart too much...your comments are generally far more rewarding to read than people's pomes.
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > Goad | 1-Feb-05/6:00 AM | Reply
...you old goat.
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > zodiac | 1-Feb-05/8:33 AM | Reply
I'm DEEPLY hurt you've made no comment on my adjunct/punt/cunt limerick further down the page.

In the context of the exchange it is a part of, it's gotta be one of my all-time cleverest limericks evar. Doncha think?
[n/a] zodiac @ 212.118.14.17 > Dovina | 1-Feb-05/5:44 AM | Reply
Oddly enough, there are absolutely no rats in this desert. That's just a trick made up by the Bush administration to propagandise the war. I'm being serious.

And I don't see how 'wanting someone to humor him with objections' is something particularly desert-rat-like. Or zodiaclike, for that matter.
[n/a] zodiac @ 212.118.14.17 > Beyond_Dreams | 1-Feb-05/5:40 AM | Reply
Either deliberately or unconsciously, you've taken Byron's superfamous line, 'She walks in beauty, like the night' and replaced like every other word.

I'm sorry, that's just how it seems to me. It's almost impossible that anyone could invented the phrase 'She [verb] in beauty, [preposition] the night' independently. And besides, having presumably passed 9th grade, you have to have read the poem. That makes it your responsibility to come up with something that doesn't make people think, 'this is just like Byron's poem, only worse.'
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > zodiac | 1-Feb-05/10:00 AM | Reply
Actully I had no idea about that superfamous line, 'She walks in beauty, like the night'. And no i've never read that poem in school or outside of school.
[n/a] zodiac @ 212.118.11.12 > Beyond_Dreams | 1-Feb-05/9:33 PM | Reply
Well, now I'm telling you. One of the most famous lines of poetry ever goes "She walks in beauty, like the night". That you've independently created a line of poetry almost exactly like it probably means you're a staggering genius.

Unfortunately for you, Byron beat you to it by about two hundred years. Now it's your responsibility to change yours, especially since Byron can't very well change his, having been Greeked to death before your greatgreatgreat grandmother was born.
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > zodiac | 2-Feb-05/2:45 PM | Reply
Just because a line is similar to that poem does not mean I have to change it. The meaning is different, and besides many poems may have similar lines its when the whole poem is similar where I would start to question the writer. For Example...

San Francisco Blues 'by Jack Kerouac' one of the lines reads like this... "In the calm & peaceful
Night-"

In this poem 'by Kit McCallum' the line reads like this..."The peaceful calm of night."

So you're telling me one of these people has to change their poem because it is very similar to other persons poem?
[n/a] zodiac @ 212.118.11.12 > Beyond_Dreams | 2-Feb-05/10:19 PM | Reply
Look, here's the typical reaction to this poem now: "This is just like Byron's, only not as good." Of course you don't HAVE to change anything. But you do have to change it if you don't want people to think "This is just like Byron's, only not as good."
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > zodiac | 31-Jan-05/5:36 PM | Reply
There once was a pome masturbatory
that tried to tell some dumb nymph's little story
but there's nothing on google
to show it's not new, go
check, you'll see it ain't stolen glory!
[7] wilco @ 24.165.207.93 | 31-Jan-05/3:39 PM | Reply
waaaaaaaaaayy too much rhyme for my taste, and forced in places at that. Kind of pretty though in places.
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > wilco | 31-Jan-05/4:48 PM | Reply
Yup I agree, I don't usually write poems w/ rhyme, but this sort of came to me and I havn't worked out all the small kinks yet. But I still feel it has some great potential.
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 | 31-Jan-05/5:18 PM | Reply
Hmm, so just what IS this "depth of illusion"
painter's muse? an allusion? delusion?
..ah no, it's in BD's pants, you see
it's his little fantasy --
that he has while he rubs his protrusion.
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > Goad | 31-Jan-05/5:41 PM | Reply
considering this poem has nothing to do w/ a man you have to be referring to yourself
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > Beyond_Dreams | 31-Jan-05/6:24 PM | Reply
What kind of rejoinder is that?
Are you saying your groin's, er, less protruding than flat?
For me there's no sport
In such a lousy retort
I enjoin you, do better than that
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > Goad | 31-Jan-05/7:20 PM | Reply

Here do you think this is better
I hope it gets your panties wetter
This may come as quite a shock
I am a chick therefor I have no cock!
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > Beyond_Dreams | 31-Jan-05/11:06 PM | Reply
and i titled it 'depth of illusion' because if they say a picture is worth a thousand words, then a painting must be worth a million.
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > Beyond_Dreams | 1-Feb-05/2:15 AM | Reply
Your reply's an unneeded adjunct
And you fail my aspersion to punt:
Though the pronoun was wrong
You've no need for a dong
There's protrusion enough in a cunt.
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > Goad | 1-Feb-05/2:35 AM | Reply
BTW: here is your clumsy attempt rewritten in actual limerick form; just so you know how it's done for future battles:

I know it may come as a shock
To one who assumes gender ad hoc
Is this retort better?
Has it gotten you wetter?
I'm a chick, so guess what -- I've no cock!
[10] Luzr @ 216.68.192.66 | 1-Feb-05/1:07 AM | Reply
Incredibly. Both the retort and the words of this poem.
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > Luzr | 1-Feb-05/2:38 AM | Reply
Interesting...you show the same lack of awareness of the distinction between the adverbial and adjectival forms of words in your comments as you do in your pomes. Missing that part of your brain, perchance?
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > Luzr | 1-Feb-05/4:43 AM | Reply
If I'd a doubt left 'bout the young poet's gender
Luzr's comment above would soon end her.
Like a dog, he's so fast
To get his nose up her ass,
That I'm a little bit frightened he'll rend her.
[0] Brittanyy @ 152.163.100.135 | 1-Feb-05/5:48 AM | Reply
I hate you so much that I decided to give this poem a 0..Big surprise huh?
[n/a] Goad @ 217.226.20.184 > Brittanyy | 1-Feb-05/8:22 AM | Reply
surprised that your thought process works like this?:

"they criticized my pome > I hate them > I will look up one of their pomes and vote "0" on it. That'll show'm"

no. Not really surprised at all. In fact, it quite confirms my previous opinion of you.
[n/a] Beyond_Dreams @ 67.51.232.76 > Brittanyy | 2-Feb-05/2:55 PM | Reply
Yawn....you really are unoriginal aren't you!
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