Re: a comment on Strange Days, Indeed by Bachus	21-Mar-04/9:20 AM
BONUS QUOTES: "Mr. Graves regularly performs wearing a skull mask and is known for belting out lyrics like: "A fever rots/The brain goes numb inside/I feel a blackout coming/The boiled blister pops inside." He allows that he doesn't fit the profile of your average red-state Republican... 'I think George Bush is a wonderful, competent leader,' he added. 'And I believe that he is bringing this country on a right and just course and he understands the true nature of evil.' See for yourself at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/fashion/21PUNK.html (free registration required.)
Re: a comment on Strange Days, Indeed by Bachus	21-Mar-04/9:16 AM
Michale Graves, not Danzig. The mistake is Slate's, as the Times calls him 'a former singer for The Misfits.'
Re: a comment on Strange Days, Indeed by Bachus	21-Mar-04/7:06 AM
"The NYT's 'Sunday Styles' section takes a look at an intriguing sub-subculture now coming out of the woodwork: conservative punks, who opt for red-state values regardless of the color of their hair. The former frontman of The Misfits, now an online political columnist, maintains that conservatism can be pretty punk-rock after all: 'I look like someone who should be hanging out with Marilyn Manson — in fact I have hung out with Marilyn Manson. It doesn't affect what my morals are.'" - SLATE.COM
Re: The End of the Beginning by DarkThirteens	21-Mar-04/6:53 AM
The best part is the 'surprise' at the end, when you realise it's not real, it's just a dream.
Re: a comment on Puritans by zodiac	21-Mar-04/4:52 AM
The point is, I've written something like a thousand rhyming poems since high school. It's getting hard for me to find new rhymes or structures. My line breaks are arbitrary in that I try to make the rhyme come at an unexpected part of the sentence, almost never at the period or some tidy clause-end. But if I didn't have rhymes I would have no idea how to line-break. Really. I've tried, like in that dreadful 'Joe-Joe', but it feels like utter bullshit to put in breaks where there's no reason to. I respect a lot people who write good free verse (including some here), but I can't understand how they don't feel like flaming bullshit poseurs doing it.
Re: a comment on Puritans by zodiac	21-Mar-04/4:33 AM
It does in the Southern United States. (1) Wipe. (2) Weep. (3) Repeat as desired.
Re: a comment on Puritans by zodiac	20-Mar-04/9:03 PM
Thanks. I'm working on it.
Re: Puritans by zodiac	20-Mar-04/5:06 PM
Rhyme/intentional-line-break code: AB-BCCD-ABCD-A. Why don't you look it up, -=Dark_Angel=-?
Re: Snow Day by Standby	20-Mar-04/3:59 PM
God sees you, child. -0-
Re: a comment on Puritans by zodiac	20-Mar-04/3:50 PM
(weird guilt-ridden Puritan dreams.) A Puritan woman's night-dress is formidable to protect her from her husband's (and her own) sensuality - which, as you should know, is shameful and wicked. I don't know why sugar is like a skin. I just imagined what it's like to touch it with a tongue. And I wanted it to be sensual. I guess if I have to explain it, though, it didn't work. I'm trying to make less sense recently, but not too little.
Re: Puritans by zodiac	20-Mar-04/3:34 PM
Oh, and thanks, richa, for letting me try out your style. I couldn't work in any woodland animals, though. Or A#P#P#L#E#S.
Re: a comment on Puritans by zodiac	20-Mar-04/3:30 PM
My wife sleepwalks to the kitchen late some nights and eats sugar out of the bowl. It seemed an appropriate opposite image for my Catholic-raised self-denial and pleasure-delaying. How do I make that more clear?
Re: a comment on The Pedestal by Richard	19-Mar-04/7:59 PM
If I understand this comment right, then you don't believe it is possible to write anything that can be considered poetric except by stringing together meaningless cliches. Have you any idea what a pox-bearing turd-ball of a notion that is?
Re: Strange Days, Indeed by Bachus	19-Mar-04/4:48 AM
Yawn. Thanks for the 1994 flashback, though.
Re: The Pedestal by Richard	19-Mar-04/4:22 AM
>>>>GOOGLE CLICHE COUNT<<<< I don’t even know your name (3,900,000!!!) But that mystery only deepens my intrigue. (25) I would like to say that I am content, Just to know that you exist. (126) Life is full of (88,700) sadness (70) and empty of remorse, (11) It gives and takes indiscriminately. (369) But every so often it smiles upon us, (52) And in that radiant glow (239), we are found fortunate. It is enough for me to (2,410) bask in the (62) light of your smile, (807) And drown in the depths of your eyes. (depths: 346, eyes: 531) >>>>GOOGLE CLICHE TOTAL: 3,993,748<<<<
Re: Unadorned by w~* ATHENA *~w	18-Mar-04/8:05 PM
Here's another red bar - probably old news. (http://www.alwaysontherun.net/kendra.htm#e)
Re: To all the assholes.. by KaytiaraFaith	18-Mar-04/11:53 AM
Not to sound like one of those assholes, but maybe you'd be better off going to my-tragic-personal-experience-ranker or my-true-expression-of-my-feelings-ranker instead of bringing your problems to POEMranker, where contentless scatology-rhyming balladic nonsense always carries the day.
Re: Thank-you, outside by fevriere	17-Mar-04/6:04 PM
"milliard"? Okay, here's the corny hi-i'm-new-to-poemranker review: I almost wish there was more story. What I get is: thank you, leaves, for listening to that terrible thing that just happened and not talking - more than something like: thank you leaves for listening as I'm talking right now, in this sentence, that I'm speaking, which ends right... here. But then I get no clue what they were listening to. Am I so wrong?
Re: a comment on Buried pyramid by zodiac	17-Mar-04/2:49 PM
"Good prose" - and it rhymes.
Re: a comment on Buried pyramid by zodiac	17-Mar-04/2:48 PM
Love, for you I drank my own sob/cry/scream... - from 'Revancha' by Agustin Lara (the hispanic Bing Crosby)