replying on The Symbol by Dovina
30 Mar 2005, 10:27 AM
The cross is a symbol of redemption, of the Christian faith, of acceptance of Christ's suffering for sinners, of His substitutionary death, of faith shown by the wearer of the cross in Christ, a good luck charm, a mockery, or a gruesome method of execution.
replying on No Worries by Dovina
30 Mar 2005, 10:20 AM
None.
on How to treat young ladies by wFraser Allonby Q.C.w
29 Mar 2005, 10:55 AM
Your title is a misleading welcome mat to young men wishing to learn the gentlemanly arts. Instead of the promised guidance, you relate vile acts of uncouth pseudo-gentlemen, lending no redeeming importance to the telling, such as recommending their castration. May I suggest a rewrite along the lines of flowers, opened doors, candles, and soft, respectful words.
replying on Reasonably Good by Dovina
29 Mar 2005, 10:44 AM
You, young man, are considered a dim from both sides of the aisle.
replying on Reasonably Good by Dovina
29 Mar 2005, 10:39 AM
I can't think of a more stultifyingly colossal cloud to disappear on then with my long-time friend and lover, -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.
replying on Make Music in Your Heart by Dovina
29 Mar 2005, 7:18 AM
Has my silky talk offended your sensibilities? Then you have missed the obvious underlying meaning in lines like “they’ll call you back to repeat.”
replying on Make Music in Your Heart by Dovina
29 Mar 2005, 7:18 AM
Six weeks of piano lessons were enough to send me back to the sand box.
replying on Make Music in Your Heart by Dovina
29 Mar 2005, 7:18 AM
Yep, but love takes work and time.
on id by FreeFormFixation
28 Mar 2005, 4:59 PM
You've got a good idea for a poem here, but it appears following too closely to the truth of the event. To tell the truth, you have to lie sometimes. To relate a thing, you have to change it.
replying on Make Music in Your Heart by Dovina
28 Mar 2005, 4:50 PM
Glad you like the dayum thang I did. If only I knew what I've done.
replying on Plato by not_a_philosopher
28 Mar 2005, 4:36 PM
"God is not responsible for all things, but for good things only. Causes for evil must be sought elsewhere. To present God as the author of evil is suicidal, ruinous, impious." - The Republic
replying on Make Music in Your Heart by Dovina
28 Mar 2005, 11:19 AM
How’s that? Two for three ain’t bad.
on Plato by not_a_philosopher
28 Mar 2005, 7:13 AM
Plato has some very worthwhile things to say. Try reading him when you're older.
on Memories of a Suicidal Sophomore by CemeteryBuffsOnline
28 Mar 2005, 7:10 AM
Not really a poem.
on true love by francis nor capule
28 Mar 2005, 7:07 AM
I don't know these idyllic people in "so they say." Sounds like you could wait a long time.
replying on The Symbol by Dovina
27 Mar 2005, 7:31 AM
Redemption yes. Happy Easter.
on You Pick It by durr_T_hip_E
26 Mar 2005, 6:40 PM
This is a good story right up to last few lines where I think you blew it. I saw the point without your telling it at the end.
replying on Reasonably Good by Dovina
26 Mar 2005, 6:24 PM
Open mindedness does not help me to distinguish truth from non-truth. It merely allows me to consider more possible truths, and having more to consider I have a greater chance of finding the real truths among them.
replying on Reasonably Good by Dovina
26 Mar 2005, 6:20 PM
http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Robert_Graves/4757
Robert Graves - In Broken Images
He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images.
He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images;
I become sharp, mistrusting my broken images.
Trusting his images, he assumes their relevance;
Mistrusting my images, I question their relevance.
Assuming their relevance, he assumes the fact;
Questioning their relevance, I question their fact.
When the fact fails him, he questions his senses;
when the fact fails me, I approve my senses.
He continues quick and dull in his clear images;
I continue slow and sharp in my broken images.
He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
That's a good poem 10
Robert Graves - In Broken Images
He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images.
He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images;
I become sharp, mistrusting my broken images.
Trusting his images, he assumes their relevance;
Mistrusting my images, I question their relevance.
Assuming their relevance, he assumes the fact;
Questioning their relevance, I question their fact.
When the fact fails him, he questions his senses;
when the fact fails me, I approve my senses.
He continues quick and dull in his clear images;
I continue slow and sharp in my broken images.
He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
That's a good poem 10
replying on Reasonably Good by Dovina
26 Mar 2005, 6:12 PM
If you wish to define dogma that way, then yes. I don't.