replying on opposition by kiki
23 Nov 2002, 12:29 AM
Well, polyps are growths that can keep inhibit one's breathing. I suppose I meant that I was slowly accumulating various sorts of mental/emotional growths or blockages that were keeping from functioning properly.
replying on the pot collected water when it hid us from the rain by kiki
21 Nov 2002, 12:45 AM
My creative writing class is a far cry from group therapy. And I joined this site in the first place because I didn't think it would be a product of the general public. I don't care if the public accepts my poetry, in fact I'd prefer it didn't. Maybe I sound like a stuck up mindless college brat, but the last thing I want to do is communicate with the majority of the John Grisham reading American people.
replying on the pot collected water when it hid us from the rain by kiki
21 Nov 2002, 12:40 AM
I denied cancer as a valid subject for poetry, because the content is too loaded. Pain and loss vaguely arrive out of a lot of poems without a conscious effort. I just said it's hard to write about diseases, especially when you know you are writing about them.
replying on the pot collected water when it hid us from the rain by kiki
19 Nov 2002, 11:18 PM
You haven't deceived anyone. All I was saying is I feel sorry for you.
replying on the pot collected water when it hid us from the rain by kiki
19 Nov 2002, 11:15 PM
I'm not trying to say that, I am saying that, precisely. I value his opinion because he's a poet, and a very good one. I don't value yours, because you seem like a generic fool. But I am enthusiastic about my own work, at least some of the time, and it was silly of me to even have brought him into this. I just don't understand where most of you are coming from...by what standards you are judging these poems. This is probably my favorite, or at least the most successful, of the poems I've submitted, and it has the lowest score. This is like some online poetry slam. And by the way, you don't think loss, pain, and misunderstanding are aspects of human experience? They're the essence of human experience.
replying on the pot collected water when it hid us from the rain by kiki
13 Nov 2002, 9:35 PM
Well thank you for your opinion god'swife. I am sorry my poems do not speak to you in generic emotional language. However, I have made my selections for this website based on my professor's enthusiasm over these poems. And although he does not have thirty-four poems posted on poemranker, he has published a well received book. You are right; I am somewhat self-involved, though I don't know how you got that from our brief interaction. I, however, am not a creep; I can assure you.
on Ambiguous Love Poem For A Girl I Once Knew by poetandknowit
12 Nov 2002, 10:29 PM
You obviously are not a poet. Wrapped in endless laughter.
on Cancer Haikus by poetandknowit
12 Nov 2002, 10:27 PM
Cancer is something no poet should really try to tackle...no matter how much experience they have with the disease. It's a recipe for disaster. If you know nothing baout cancer, then what is the point? If you know everything about cancer then you're way too closely related to the content. I was somewhat interested in the first stanza until I remebered the title and realized what it was about. Make it vaguely about love or sex like everything else.
First of all, adderal does not by any means make you intelligent...it helps you concentrate. I am well acquainted with the drug. And I suppose, to some extent, yes, that was what i was talking about..in saying "I am not like the skinny girl and her pink pill." The rest of the poem, if you must know, is about topamax...a recently developed mood stabilizer for people with bi-polar disorder.