poemranker ::20 most recent comments by <~> (921-940) and replies

Comments by<~>, 921–940 back, including replies. Only comments on poems

on solitorus by glittalogik 27 Dec 2002, 11:54 PM
freshly said, but feels unfinished
on broken nail by blackball 27 Dec 2002, 11:52 PM
what does the primal clawing have to do with the street lamp's light? can you please make a nice neat package out of this one?
on frontage by xanthippe 27 Dec 2002, 11:50 PM
give me something i can hold on to
on plain by blackball 27 Dec 2002, 11:39 PM
L1 &L2--you don't need both 'by myself' and 'solitary'.
L4: change to 'as days fluttered past'

i believe that's what p&k and h8 are suggesting, and i agree.
awww...
on Phillip by w~* ATHENA *~w 26 Dec 2002, 8:35 PM
Artist: Kendra Smith Album: Five Ways of Disappearing Song: Valley of the morning sunhttp://www.lyrics.jp/lyrics/K000700010009.asp
replying on Brackish by <~> 26 Dec 2002, 12:32 PM
re S3:
lacy crunch of pocked dirt brittle underfoot

all inversion: brittle crunch, lacy pocked dirt, but so obvious to word them that way.
on Things by Quarton 26 Dec 2002, 12:24 PM
i'm on the fence here, because i believe in what you are saying, but i don't know that it work in this form. i believe that animals are sentient, and suffer. i believe that factory farming dehumanizes us, as much as it disregards the value of life. i see the yellow-crated chicken trucks going by, full and unsheltered at 75 mph in this cold, and i realize that this is not considered unkind. i look around a little--do some reading, and i become a vegetarian for a few years. i lapse, and justify it as 'acknowledging that i am part of the food chain.' and i used to be against hunting. now, i feel like it's the most humane way to get meat. i just don't like to think about it. no one does. but there must be a way to be what i am without contributing to the suffering. please tell me there is.
there is, isn't there?
replying on Brackish by <~> 26 Dec 2002, 12:15 PM
dammit. i had that in my draft and for got to change it.
yeah. my wall poem led toward home. WTF? i'm not feeling like i have a home these days. all my happy, satisfied poem-protagonists are wishful thinking. see, i'm getting geared up for the new year--worst night of the year. best place to spend it is in the bath. bah humbug.

thanks for the suggestion. i changed it to how it should be. please vote again.
replying on Brackish by <~> 26 Dec 2002, 8:21 AM
you can see things without realizing you are seeing them--you see what you expect to see. how many people see the color of the light? they see 'light'--generic. look into apartment windows at night sometime--you'll see warm--yellow--incandesant, blue--cold--fluorescent, and white--neutral--halogen--all next to each other. ot's this kind of distinction i am pointing out. i will rework with your other suggestions. i needed pruning help here. thanks mangk.
on Garden of confusion by Sugarbbybuttrfly 24 Dec 2002, 6:58 PM
good thing he didn't take your womb too. then you'd be in serious shit.
on Waiting by Sugarbbybuttrfly 24 Dec 2002, 6:56 PM
typos tiepoes ti-poas
on Wrong by Sugarbbybuttrfly 24 Dec 2002, 6:56 PM
you have a yeast infection, and PMS. see your local chemist for some OTC relief. everyone will thank you.
on For Horus by INTRANSIT 24 Dec 2002, 6:53 PM
i've got this terrible feeling of deja vu...

well done, mockingbird.
replying on Little Johnie's Jihad by <{Baba^Yaga}> 24 Dec 2002, 6:44 PM
yeah, i'd love to. send it to me.
as for slots--i stay away from that den of iniquity...at least i have so far today.
replying on guitar music and lies by w~* ATHENA *~w 24 Dec 2002, 6:42 PM
good thing you're quick. ouch.
replying on guitar music and lies by w~* ATHENA *~w 24 Dec 2002, 5:42 PM
can't find this one. not yet, anyway. tick tick tick
on Little Johnie's Jihad by <{Baba^Yaga}> 24 Dec 2002, 5:35 PM
and joe strummer's dead, so there's no more rockin' the casbah.

fuckit. merry jihad, h.
xo, z
on Rewrite of a goof poem. by INTRANSIT 24 Dec 2002, 5:32 PM
i like the orignal better too.

merry christmas to yoooo!
on The Coming Light by poetandknowit 23 Dec 2002, 9:23 PM
i know about the waiting for that light. if p&k is mr winter for the mountains, then i am mrs for clinging desperately to the shortening nights, until the land is greened. this is a poem about hope and despair, in the simplest of metaphors: light and dark.