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Re: The Confusing Love Poem
If I were to edit this, first I would require a blowtorch, because you have An Interesting And Post Modern Structural Idea, but at the moment it's coming out like ...
Sep 21, 2009 -
Re: Than You
Nujood Ali, of Ethiopia, was married off when she was nine years old. He husband beat and raped her. She went to her parents who wouldn't shelter her. She eventually ...
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Re: I fight
Any other poetic form or device in the world. Any. Pick one. I would even give you a shiney new pony if you rhymed ABAB rather than AABB, so you'd ...
Jun 7, 2009 -
Re: I fight
The impact of a poem is lessened if you take your structure from Doctor Seuss. That is not to say the binary rhyming pattern is dead by no means, couplets ...
Jun 7, 2009 -
Re: Death
I want this to be more immediate. Death is, Love is, Hope is. Repetition just makes it more inane. Defining an abstract concept like this has been done to, well, ...
Jun 7, 2009 -
Re: Racism.
You have to ask yourself what is the purpose of this poem? If you want to change people's minds, this work fails on a fundamental level. People who agree with ...
Jun 7, 2009 -
Re: Obama
Well, I was merely referring colloquially to the climate of social apathy, fear and cynicism which the Bush administration is partly responsible for instilling in the populace, and remarking that ...
Mar 3, 2009 -
Re: Obama
Lets face it a sockpuppet made from the skin of rancid mayonnaise would make a better president than Bush did, so its fairly easy for Obama to look good. But ...
Mar 2, 2009 -
Re: Gibson vs Fender
Gibson, although Fender has all the hype, unless its one of the really really early Fenders, they're a bit fun. Of course nothing is truly hardcore unless its made by ...
Feb 25, 2009 -
Re: Abortion
I actually find the perspective of the Marquis de Sade to be interesting on this in "Philosophies in the Boudoir." The characters theorize that abortion is moral, in that if ...
Feb 25, 2009 -
Re: Love the person
This shows just about nothing of your writing style, so I won't go into depth, only to say there was this Valentines day where someone had put a notice in ...
Feb 15, 2009 -
Re: Can You See The Lettering?
Zalarus, you're not disagreeing with me, I was saying it shouldn't be more concrete, I was lamenting the current literate climate that poetry has become concrete and formulaic, and praising ...
Feb 15, 2009 -
Re: Can You See The Lettering?
So my colleagues say unsettling, they say vague. Because poems, they are meant to be concrete things, they're meant to have an opaque enjoyable exterior, followed by some easily discernible ...
Feb 15, 2009 -
Re: Of Cheap Flesh and Produce
"The management apologizes for the poor quality of the two dollar strawberry punnets. Most people would think that strawberries, by virtue of being strawberries, would be sweet, tender, and desirable,
Nov 2, 2008 -
Re: What makes Purple Prose?
Purple prose is not the use of excessive description, necessarily, that's referred to in contemporary lit crit as hysterical realism, take, for example, the later work of Don Delillo, an ...
Aug 17, 2008
