Re: a comment on ~RePOST~Cupid's Arrow <----<< by nothingtoanyone	zodiac 212.118.14.17	22-Feb-05/5:24 AM
Of course I know what nothingtoanyone is trying to communicate.
Re: a comment on Rusty knife to the kidney by INTRANSIT	zodiac 212.118.14.17	22-Feb-05/5:22 AM
Sorry, that's no qualification for poetrye. To clarify: Take the sentence above. Do I seem to have felt something? Yes, of course. I felt sorry. Did I find a unique way of expressing it? Yes. I intentionally spelled poetry in an odd kind of quaint way. Does it let you feel something too? If there's any reason to the universe, yes. Put-off, indignant, or somewhat justified in whatever preconceived notions you're harboring about my personality or procreative abilities, probably. Maybe you mean, The POET seems to feel something and finds a unique way blah blah blah. Is this a poem because INTRANSIT, a poet, wrote it? Not in any kind of universe I want to exist in!
Re: Hunger by Dovina	Stephen Robins 213.146.148.199	22-Feb-05/5:03 AM
Like a society without peasants, this poem has ideas well above those it achieves. There are too many arisions.
Re: a comment on AIDS in a Glass by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	Stephen Robins 213.146.148.199	22-Feb-05/4:58 AM
Good point, yeah comeback from that one "-=DA=-" you big cunt, finally someone has bested you with plain common sense talking. How do you know what Sunshine Conkey is knowledgeable in! Clearly hanging aroiund with diseased nonces but what else? what else!
Re: Carson City by A. Nomaly	horus8 24.130.62.63	21-Feb-05/7:01 PM
po'erful
Re: Kaleidoscopic (Re-Edit) by Sasha	horus8 24.130.62.63	21-Feb-05/5:43 PM
It puts the lotion on its skin
Re: Hunger by Dovina	horus8 24.130.62.63	21-Feb-05/3:44 PM
There is something excessively fat about your ass, and it's not your thong.
Re: a comment on Almost One by thepinkbunnyofdoom	horus8 24.130.62.63	21-Feb-05/2:26 PM
No, really, this is shit Read Gilgamesh and shut the fuck up. Every line in this poem is something A 17 year old would say while holding his penis in a blizzard waiting for a bus to the mall to buy his girlfriend some mango edible underwear at Spencers. Except for the fact that a penis in a blizzard is more interesting than this rubbish.
Re: Help me find a poet (This is an actual question, not a poem) by Plaidypus	horus8 24.130.62.63	21-Feb-05/1:16 PM
What are you high?
Re: Help me find a poet (This is an actual question, not a poem) by Plaidypus	richa 81.178.251.87	21-Feb-05/11:48 AM
That description is not much use. But if you are serious about them having more poems than you have ever seen, go to the users page click on poems at the top to sort users by number of poems and check through see if you recognize any names. It may have been Christof or poetandknowit or edpeterson I guess.
Re: Help me find a poet (This is an actual question, not a poem) by Plaidypus	Bobjim 195.93.21.65	21-Feb-05/11:00 AM
has it occurred to you that several people match that description, it could even be me.....
Re: a comment on Hunger by Dovina	richa 81.178.251.87	21-Feb-05/9:03 AM
:(
Re: a comment on Hunger by Dovina	Dovina 12.72.8.243	21-Feb-05/8:43 AM
No cogent arguement intended. Sorry to have bothered you.
Re: a comment on Hunger by Dovina	richa 81.178.251.87	21-Feb-05/8:35 AM
and stop bitching all the time about critics. It takes a lot more effort to try and communicate to you what is wrong with your poems and why such a thing is wrong (as you will not accept even the most central of poetetic tenets) than it does to simply say: Ace Dovina, and everyone's opinion is equally valid so if you think 'show don't tell' is wrong you don't even have to make a cogent argument why.
Re: a comment on Hunger by Dovina	richa 81.178.251.87	21-Feb-05/8:29 AM
That is to say there is no debate over whether to show or whether to tell. The poet is supposed to communicate something. How can she communicate what she means when she forsakes the precision of image for the vagueness of abstract terms.
Re: a comment on Hunger by Dovina	richa 81.178.251.87	21-Feb-05/8:20 AM
If a dunce bangs her head against stone because she believes its properties are not stoney, does that make her at war with the stone? The line break thing is correct by the way. It may happen with metrical forms that lines break for syllable count's sake etc (although they really should not), free verse on the other hand attempts to mimic the musical patterns of speech.
Re: The Plane of War by MacFrantic	Dovina 12.72.4.56	21-Feb-05/7:52 AM
War is bad. We know that, and unless a poem presents something unusual about it, the thing falls flat.
Re: a comment on Hunger by Dovina	Dovina 12.72.4.56	21-Feb-05/7:37 AM
It has only one circular line and may not, by your definition (which I disagree with) be free verse. I’m not big on categories anyway, except the old ones – sonnet, villanelle, etc. Show-don’t-Tell, the ancient war rages.
Re: a comment on Hunger by Dovina	Dovina 12.72.4.56	21-Feb-05/7:36 AM
The commas might be needed when it’s put in a circle, just to let a person know where to pause, also to prevent DgB from diddling with it. In the format shown here, you’re probably right.
Re: a comment on Hunger by Dovina	Dovina 12.72.4.56	21-Feb-05/7:35 AM
Allow me to explain. "up utensils I indulge in" is to be interpreted “I indulge in up utensils” If you eat them sideways you become a wine lover in Solvang region and get your butt whipped by an irate oriental woman. It’s in your own interest.