on a self-conscious lack of denial by nentwined
16 Feb 2007, 9:39 AM
A couple of wines and all is fine.
on some deleted poem
16 Feb 2007, 9:42 AM
too melodramatic, but a nice sentiment.
on Plurals by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.
16 Feb 2007, 9:27 AM
The plural of â-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.â is â-=Darkies_Angel=-, Private In flagrante delicto.â
on Friday's Monday's June by Enkidu
15 Feb 2007, 7:16 AM
Friday's Monday's June takes a while to parse and makes a riddle out of it. The rest is quite nice in its obscurity.
on Complaints by jessicazee
15 Feb 2007, 7:10 AM
These sound like happy complaints of two who have worked hard and have some minor pains. That's just an impression though, because it isn't very clear. If "hot cocoa stains" are sweaty dirt on shirt, then good description.
on Working Title by MacFrantic
18 Feb 2007, 4:06 PM
I don't get it, as if it's to somebody in particular who knows the context. Maybe if you say what the working title is.
on Journey by madamefrufru
18 Feb 2007, 4:12 PM
You might try commenting on more than one poem before posting another. This one is particularly lacking in particulars.
on Mexican Monday by A_Dark_Calm
20 Feb 2007, 3:47 PM
Ah, the insensitivity of lovers to the intricacy of words, to the seemingly unwitting lush outsiders feel, to the goddess whims of the neglected, or angelic twitters of the left. To be in love is a splendid thing, far better than poetry or idle chat. Best wishes.
on some deleted poem
24 Feb 2007, 10:23 AM
It seems not banal. Whatever makes it so? Calm rain wasted on the sea perhaps, but surely not the gulls, buoy, empathy.
on looking for by Phalkon
24 Feb 2007, 10:26 AM
pointlessness, writer's block, man-as-machine - dismal topics overdone.
on Shoe Thief by Blue Magpie
26 Feb 2007, 10:45 PM
It's cute and almost funny, but it rambles on and pays too much attention to rhyme.
on You should not judge Until after death by Prince of Void
26 Feb 2007, 10:51 PM
I've stopped trying to shed a little optimism in your "lines in this fatal misery." Carry on.
on The Laws of Life by lrustagi
27 Feb 2007, 3:47 PM
It's an interesting attempt as unusual language. I'd prefer to see the Old English done with proper grammar though. You mix new and old in an interesting way, but if the old is not done properly, then people think you're just blabbing without having learned the form. A nice attempt at something different.
on A Single Strand of Golden Yellow by Aetius
27 Feb 2007, 3:53 PM
It goes along well in the first half. Then the logic of yarn that was once a sweater being like a person thinking she's less bright than she imagines, escapes me.
on The Beginning by jessicazee
2 Mar 2007, 8:55 PM
It's sketchy, as if meant for some special person. I'd have to ask you to fill in the gaps before I could say much more.
on Taste of Ash (A long project barely beginning) by sliver
2 Mar 2007, 8:57 PM
First 2 lines are good. Then it runs amok, without more to go on.
on Quantum Reality by Quarton
2 Mar 2007, 8:50 PM
The title seems too narrow, since this is about more than quantum mechanics. Itâs a kind of wandering theory of everything, where supernovae is misspelled. Itâs a mixture of science and speculation, and edges on preaching. But you avoid that trap and stop after saying that we humans are, in your opinion, not separate entities as we suppose, but part of some organic whole. Iâd like it better if it held closer to real science until the end, as it does in much of it, delaying âthe inseparable cosmic webâ idea. I think that would make your last verse more powerful.
on The ceremony of death by Prince of Void
4 Mar 2007, 3:21 PM
Donât believe Rocky; this is not a good poem; he only agrees with your position. Hell, if I write about the virtue of zeroing, heâll leap all over it. No, but if you do, he will. All he has for me is âhoney bunâ and âsqueal.â
âOfâ on line 2 surely should be âof.â
âOf buildings had laid in ruinsâ should surely lose the âhad.â
To name just a few.
âOfâ on line 2 surely should be âof.â
âOf buildings had laid in ruinsâ should surely lose the âhad.â
To name just a few.
on some deleted poem
4 Mar 2007, 3:26 PM
Bethy, your other stuff has reality, a gut feeling of having been there. This, I'm sorry, is just cliche. It's no different from what anybody could rattle off about their home. Sorry, I usually like your posts. Keep coming back.