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on Wholes: the year in reflection by impert&ent 23 Jul 2004, 10:34 AM
As you slip Between the lines - good line.
on Flying things by INTRANSIT 22 Jul 2004, 11:42 AM
I haven't read Carl Sandburg's poem and should before commenting, but I had to laugh at the wrecking ball because it's what I think I need around here half the time and then say, no it's the other half I stay for.
on Feeling Like A Mask by wilco 20 Jul 2004, 2:39 PM
Might want to scratch "Feeling Like" from the title.
"I’m masquerading as someone who loves you." "Not technically lies." Good lines.
on some deleted poem 20 Jul 2004, 9:26 AM
Good to see you shuushin again. Not being a linguist, I'll not get out the big magnifying glass, and avoid attack.
on I dreamt a white Black widow by INTRANSIT 20 Jul 2004, 9:41 AM
Funny! Women rule.
on some deleted poem 20 Jul 2004, 9:51 AM
Nice, touching. The title is a confusingly inscribed welcome mat to puzzle over and then wonder what it means.
on Knowledge has such high demands by Torok 19 Jul 2004, 12:40 PM
Verse 1 needs a look at the wording, "possession"

The rest is pretty good.
on Never Ceasing to Amaze by wilco 19 Jul 2004, 10:10 AM
How else can we keep four or five of you on the string at once?
on some deleted poem 19 Jul 2004, 10:16 AM
Nicely said, and by one who can also do the form if desired.
on Walking in a field by donmiguel1960 19 Jul 2004, 11:32 AM
It's a funeral in verses 1 and 2. But when daughters laugh, I wonder. Verse 4 doesn't seem to follow.
on The Two Temperaments of Man by dougsoderstrom 19 Jul 2004, 12:13 PM
Verse 2 is both puzzling and intriguing because either statement could apply to either of the positions in Verse 1 depending on how you look at it.

Verse 3 "as human beings"

Verse 4 states your position on the matter, and seems best left out.

You might want to classify this as Prose Poetry.
on some deleted poem 18 Jul 2004, 10:38 AM
Good. I'd take out "the" before sun in two places, and "murders of crows"?
on some deleted poem 19 Jul 2004, 3:09 PM
Boxcars like coffins returning from war, good.
on Countdown by TearsOnRoses 18 Jul 2004, 10:43 AM
It seems the numbers are there to rhyme, unless I'm missing something. Last two lines are good.
on Veins of spilt wine. by SupremeDreamer 18 Jul 2004, 2:57 PM
I have crafted poems which have puzzled me in time, became paradoxes and riddles I had not intended. But rather than becoming “convinced of their insignificance . . . or . . . stigmatized by capricious alienation,” I have sometimes reveled in “subtle intricacies [that] emerge incognito from tense silence.” - maybe some of the things in verses 2 and 3. Verse 4 starts to turn this thing around, and verse 5 has the great line, “Thoughts stem from an undertow urge to be the victim.” But rather than nod to the value of the poem’s transformation as it merely sat there, the last verse maintains “a ghostly-grim humorist suffocated by pessimism.” The last three words are pivotal, and I’d like to see them change.
on Nothingness of The illusion by Prince of Void 18 Jul 2004, 4:02 PM
Sometimes it's less painful to think of a person who hates us and with whom we have to live as an illusion. It's not ideal, but useful. Try a : after "The only thing he found out"
on some deleted poem 17 Jul 2004, 11:58 AM
Ambiguous, since "proof" could go either way.
Why not "He" in the first line, or even leave out "recently" as redundent.
Is "battery of" needed?
on some deleted poem 17 Jul 2004, 12:01 PM
Title: Exploitation.com
on some deleted poem 15 Jul 2004, 7:50 PM
Drive on, Bro!
on Southern Mississippii Standstill by wilco 16 Jul 2004, 1:53 PM
Very sensual, pleasing.