replying on Us Sinners by BrandonW
14 Nov 2005, 3:58 AM
Yes, but as a nonbeliever, it doesn't count if I say it.
replying on Us Sinners by BrandonW
14 Nov 2005, 3:57 AM
Ace.
replying on the battle for troy by oneglove
14 Nov 2005, 3:56 AM
The funny thing is "the face that launched a thousand ships" wasn't a cliche until some better poet made it up. Namely, this one: http://www.osmond-riba.org/lis/Graphics/
Actually, that's not so funny.
Actually, that's not so funny.
She might be saying people will pay to cure themselves when they're sick, but not to eliminate disease altogether when it doesn't affect them. Like eliminating the "minor 5" diseases in Africa (malaria, typhoid, and I forget the rest), which kill more Africans than AIDS but would require a smaller investment to totally eliminate than what we currently spend fighting AIDS in Africa.
It would be okay except for the last stanza switching back to present again. I think it would be even better all in present, "The howl of tires sinks" and so on. I feel justified in answering here because that was my crit too and I want to show I can be nice.
on Farm animals by INTRANSIT
13 Nov 2005, 12:56 AM
I liked the butcher block better, and thought it was sensible enough. This is okay, though, if it satisfies everyone else.
on not to settle for less than almost obliteration by ay deee
13 Nov 2005, 12:55 AM
"consumptive" is a great word, but probably not what you meant.
on Us Sinners by BrandonW
13 Nov 2005, 12:55 AM
Question: Could a God who by most accounts is all things, including all-forgiving, really allow a soul to go to Hell for eternity?
replying on Sonata for Robin and Poet by Dovina
13 Nov 2005, 12:52 AM
Please see the comments here:
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.j
and here:
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.j
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.j
and here:
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.j
on my you have a bubbly laugh by skaskowski
12 Nov 2005, 1:37 AM
I like warbly. The rest can go.
on drunken jill by calliope
12 Nov 2005, 1:35 AM
Not as good as the last one.
replying on trully, madly, deeply by Blindpoetry
11 Nov 2005, 8:28 AM
Crap. We've finally repeated the word prostitute too many times for me to upload "I LOVE A PROSTITUTE", so here are my answers:
1) I wouldn't call a poem about my wife "I Love an 8-year-old Girl", obviously. If I had an 8-year-old daughter I would love to love her, but I'm afraid my faithlessness and cynicism have made me entirely incapable of love. The irony is Dovina warned me this would happen.
2) The New Testament Marys are Mother of God, Sister of Lazarus and Martha, and the one who found out the tomb was empty. The woman taken in adultery (note-not necessarily a prositute) isn't named, but confuted with the second two Marys by tradition (as are Mary sister of Lazarus and Mary at the Tomb). It's all rather boring and covered at too much length by the ass-ugly so-called novel, The Da Vinci Code.
1) I wouldn't call a poem about my wife "I Love an 8-year-old Girl", obviously. If I had an 8-year-old daughter I would love to love her, but I'm afraid my faithlessness and cynicism have made me entirely incapable of love. The irony is Dovina warned me this would happen.
2) The New Testament Marys are Mother of God, Sister of Lazarus and Martha, and the one who found out the tomb was empty. The woman taken in adultery (note-not necessarily a prositute) isn't named, but confuted with the second two Marys by tradition (as are Mary sister of Lazarus and Mary at the Tomb). It's all rather boring and covered at too much length by the ass-ugly so-called novel, The Da Vinci Code.