replying on A New Year Prayer by amanda_dcosta
9 Jan 2006, 1:36 AM
That's what can happen if you over capitalize.
replying on What Matters by Dovina
9 Jan 2006, 1:31 AM
Can't blame her. I wouldn't want to put my "nose" in front of a colon either.
replying on What Matters by Dovina
9 Jan 2006, 12:42 AM
on Birmingham gardens by INTRANSIT
8 Jan 2006, 4:23 PM
I like this, except for "joking oak". How many jokes could a joking oak joke if a joking oak could joke oak jokes?
replying on Birmingham gardens by INTRANSIT
8 Jan 2006, 4:18 PM
If you ever get crazy enough to do Ice Road Trucking in Alaska you should stop off and say high to Zodiac for us.
on What Matters by Dovina
8 Jan 2006, 3:52 PM
Who is he, Mr. Potatohead?
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
8 Jan 2006, 3:40 PM
Yeah, It's like nobody wants to except anymore that he came from such a meager background.
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
8 Jan 2006, 3:20 PM
On a simular note. Which guy do you think he was, The Earl of Oxford or the Stratford man?
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
8 Jan 2006, 2:22 PM
Here's the sad part: I actually own a copy of Hamlet and I was too lazy to look it up in the book. This is the punctuation they used in the book:
"To be, or not to be -- that is the question:"
"To be, or not to be -- that is the question:"
replying on greymo(u)rn by lmp
8 Jan 2006, 2:03 PM
Yeah, I was really just trying to put it in a way that he wouldn't be afraid to put poetic elements into his prose poems.
I thought it was a good idea you had to swap the text layout styles. It's also a good way to find qualities and flaws in your poem you may not have noticed before.
God, my vocabulary is weak today for some reason.
I thought it was a good idea you had to swap the text layout styles. It's also a good way to find qualities and flaws in your poem you may not have noticed before.
God, my vocabulary is weak today for some reason.
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
8 Jan 2006, 1:36 PM
Thank you. I really need to get good book on punctuation.
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
6 Jan 2006, 6:41 PM
You don't think dropping the "that" might pull the line farther away from the sentence it's supporting though? Doesn't "stretches to the horizon’s hem" without "that" come across as a statement about emerald dresses in general. Like "A dog that speaks french" as opposed to "A dog speaks french".
I could really use your help on what the proper punctuation should be in the poem's current form. I googled up like 5 different ways that people punctuated the "To be or not to be" quote.
I could really use your help on what the proper punctuation should be in the poem's current form. I googled up like 5 different ways that people punctuated the "To be or not to be" quote.
replying on greymo(u)rn by lmp
6 Jan 2006, 2:58 PM
Prose poetry is prose with enough poetic elements that it can't be accepted as just prose.
on greymo(u)rn by lmp
6 Jan 2006, 2:49 PM
I like how you're diversifying yourself.
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
6 Jan 2006, 2:37 PM
I'm sorry if I came off as upset. I was merely confused by you stating something that is obvious. Usually doing that implies that you're either insulting someones intelligence or being vague about what you really mean to say. Apperantly it was the latter.
To call your previous comment constructive criticism is once again suggesting an insult to my intelligence. On the other hand your first comment is quite constructive and I even managed to take something from the second one but only because your reaction(not information) confirmed my doubts about the punctuation. Why you are jarred by this "oddball" sentence fragment and not by the one that immediately follows is a mystery to me. I can give you 13 examples of this type of "oddball" sentence in one great poem alone: Rudyard Kipling's "If". As you can see by my responses, I take something possitive from most of the feedback you make vague(not bad) or not. I respect you and I don't take the things you say lite, nor do I respond with spite.
To call your previous comment constructive criticism is once again suggesting an insult to my intelligence. On the other hand your first comment is quite constructive and I even managed to take something from the second one but only because your reaction(not information) confirmed my doubts about the punctuation. Why you are jarred by this "oddball" sentence fragment and not by the one that immediately follows is a mystery to me. I can give you 13 examples of this type of "oddball" sentence in one great poem alone: Rudyard Kipling's "If". As you can see by my responses, I take something possitive from most of the feedback you make vague(not bad) or not. I respect you and I don't take the things you say lite, nor do I respond with spite.
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
6 Jan 2006, 7:32 AM
To do it your way would pull the fragmented sentence farther away from the sentence it's complementing.
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
6 Jan 2006, 7:21 AM
"To be or not to be: that is the question." Thank God Willy didn't listen to you. I may need a comma though, I'll give you that, or a colon after "sarong" and "caress". Punctuation isn't my strong point. What kind of sentence is "Eternal pasteless now." by the way? Oh I see it's different when you do it.
In short, of course it's not a complete sentence. So.
In short, of course it's not a complete sentence. So.
replying on Sunlighting by ALChemy
5 Jan 2006, 7:47 PM
Thanks D.
It's certainly more efficient but by stretching the sentence I think it causes the reader to linger on the images a little longer. But I'm still considering it.
It's certainly more efficient but by stretching the sentence I think it causes the reader to linger on the images a little longer. But I'm still considering it.
on MEANinglessness by lmp
5 Jan 2006, 4:10 PM
I think you have a good idea for what a prose poem should be. I think this one just needs more ambience.