Quote Originally Posted by Thingfish
Do you have the link?
The address doesn't change like with these forums. The address is always www.poets.com. If you really want to read these reviews for yourself, you'll just have to join poets.com. Yes, they do have a charge, but there's a way around that. If you choose the yearly charge, they won't make their first charge until the end of your year (from the time you signed up). You can then choose to withdraw from the site without paying, (especially if you haven't written anything for the site). Aside from that, there's nothing I can do. Seriously, the address is the same no matter what screen I'm looking at.

Here's what the poem screen looks like.


Mind Bender

Riddle Master Thingfish

Paragon of a mute usurper, I.
To Occident and Orient adjunct.
Mine avocation: dearth to pacify,
By rubicund umbrage nigh-on defunct.

O, keen watchman to mine own, falter not,
To vouchsafe designs most astronomic.
Misplaced pursuit doth leave much truth forgot,
Affinity only one may mimic.

In anterior regard, quite absent,
Yet present, attending interregnum.
Contrary to self, mine heir apparent,
Abide, thou dost, foremost, and in tandem.

Confused, the vulgar see vengeful death's course,
Heaven's flute scourged, even focus slaughtered.
Yet displace determiner from this source,
A riotous assembly remembered.

Twixt conscience caught and more relative grounds,
All tears and woe be in our presence past.
At helm of craft, portentous death knell sounds.
Recurrent pause, wilt thou begun at last?

Is't a 'What'? Tis that thou thinkest of me?
Is't a 'Who'? Thrice shalt thou deceived be...

by Davneon

Author's Comments:
"This is a riddle created by my friend, Thingfish. No one so far has been able to translate the poem so the answer to the riddle remains a mystery. I would like to invite anyone with knowledge of Iambic Pentameter (or a dictionary and a thesaurus) to try their hand at deciphering this master-piece."




Reviews and Star Ratings for this poem:

"This poems has so much truth... and . . ."
****
Reviewed by: jellybeanhst

"This a very detailed and thougth provoking . . ."
*****
Reviewed by: LyndaVaughn

"The poem was wonderful and had plenty . . ."
****
Reviewed by: LustMeOrLoveMe

"That was some damn good wording there. . . ."
*****
Reviewed by: musicmansg03

"Oh, boy. I had to read . . ."
*****
Reviewed by: mary mouse

"A Mind Bender for sure. What . . ."
****
Reviewed by: Lore11

"The way you approcahed this was . . ."
*****
Reviewed by: lucypaloma
All poems are automatically centered (nothing I can do about it), and I can't change the font or style of the letters, so, it's impossible to make it an identical match.