poemranker ::Help! by Dovina

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Free verse № 159764

Help!

Member since 2004 · Posted 10 Sep 2011 · 18 comments

Is anyone there? This is West Coast USA Does anyone hear?

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0 is the worst, 10 the best. Pick a number, add a comment if you like, then send it. Keys: 0–9 pick, Enter sends.

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5 votes so far. Yours would make 6.5 votes so far

A favorite of nentwined.

18 comments

[8] nentwined 14-Sep-11/11:19 AM Reply
Classy!
[n/a] Dovina › nentwined 14-Sep-11/12:07 PM Reply
Classy enough to call it a haiku?
[8] nentwined › Dovina 14-Sep-11/12:09 PM Reply
depends on the time of day, or how far the collective stick-up-ass is. senryu... or sure. I'd leave a high vote on it. Ah, the end of the world....
[n/a] Dovina › nentwined 14-Sep-11/12:27 PM Reply
Speaking of the world, What the hell happened? The ranker and all?
[8] nentwined › Dovina 14-Sep-11/12:46 PM Reply
Don't really know "and all". I presume the dark angel contingent graduated. I fell out of phase, and then got more serious about poetry (and trying to get paid for it, which precluded posting anything to poemranker). And maybe it's just too bogged down, maybe the voting (ranking?) needs some other scale measure, ... probably things that are more recent should get precedence in terms of what get shown.

Got some free google advertising money today, tossing half of it at poemranker to see if anything happens.
[10] Ranger › nentwined 22-Jun-12/3:35 PM Reply
The problem wasn't that people graduated, but rather that the fun people left. You know, the ones who'd comment and talk and (occasionally) troll. All poemeranker got left with was an incessant queue of MOAR POETRYS being posted with very few users bothering to engage with each other. Once there was a community, now there is a ghost town.
[8] nentwined › Ranger 22-Jun-12/3:43 PM Reply
The lights go out
But the server runs
Alone, its cycles
Over-clocked
The packets never come.
[10] Ranger › nentwined 22-Jun-12/3:51 PM Reply
This is one of those beautiful dystopian images. You know, where Time Team 3000 finally prises open the blast doors to see the server, bathed in an eerie glow, still humming away.
[10] amanda_dcosta 16-Sep-11/1:18 PM Reply
Across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
or the Pacific, the other way round....
sound waves travel.
I hear you.

-10- for the message! :)
[n/a] Dovina › amanda_dcosta 16-Sep-11/3:38 PM Reply
From halfway around the globe, an answer comes
Are we the only three?
Where are they, those pundits for poetic improvement?
are they busy, or just dead?
become stiff-shirt bigots maybe
tossed out the truths they yelled for
traitors all, and cowards!

[8] wDaphnew 25-Sep-11/11:54 AM Reply
Please accept my invitation to join MY new poetry site:
http://newpoetryshared.proboards.com
[n/a] Dovina › wDaphnew 2-Nov-11/5:33 PM Reply
Get out of her, spammer!
[10] Ranger 22-Jun-12/3:29 PM Reply
Yes. Eventually, yes.
[8] nentwined 22-Jun-12/3:42 PM Reply
Makes me think we need youtube-style "reply-poems". HMMMM.
[10] Ranger › nentwined 22-Jun-12/3:46 PM Reply
Either that or a five-foot patent leather spanking stick emblazoned with the words "EVEN IN THE DEATHLY GRIP OF MY ANGST I WILL BE SOCIABLE". Too much to ask?
[8] nentwined › Ranger 22-Jun-12/3:46 PM Reply
I wonder if cafe press offers those....
[10] Ranger › nentwined 22-Jun-12/3:48 PM Reply
Every man has his price.

And if all else fails, just train a bear or something.
[n/a] Dovina 27-Nov-13/5:42 PM Reply
Poemranker is dead, right? Guess I will stop checking here.