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  • Poetry » General, General Re: Slip

    I think what gets captured here in a way that feels like a wish, a dream, a temptation is the ease of it all. Slip. One line, one slow languid ...

    Apr 30, 2022
  • Poetry » General, Health Re: an acknowledgement

    Lavvie, All I can say is love, there's so much to love about this poem, the piece-meal structure is fitting. The experience for me is in the savoring of each ...

    Apr 14, 2020
  • Poetry » Lyrical, Other Re: teach me how to tell the time

    Princessink! Time is always a fun premise to tackle in a poem, and I enjoyed the way this piece tackles that premise by pairing it with a rhythmic muse. It's ...

    Apr 14, 2020
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: long nights and longer mornings

    Nobunagas, Wow, this poem has a lot of emotion and vulnerability here. The tone is very telling, because there is a sense of matter-of-fact. I think this is achieved by ...

    Mar 26, 2018
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Dreaming the Impossible

    Hi ScarredSecrets! I enjoyed this first poem of yours very much! As I began reading the piece, I immediately picked up on the rhyme - I enjoyed that aspect of ...

    Mar 26, 2018
  • Poetry » General, General Re: You, my love

    Thisislegacy, This was such a sweet poem. It definitely feels kind-hearted, and it has a sweet and softspoken tenderness. My favorite part of the poem were the first lines actually. ...

    Mar 26, 2018
  • Poetry » General, General Re: romance is not my forte

    Ooh Killeham This is a super interesting piece! Right off the bat, I was thrown kind of off my expectations when we talk about a love poem and then there's ...

    Mar 26, 2018
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Fantasy Re: The Appeal of Arson

    Lightsong! I love the concept behind the poem, any kind of poem that dares to dive into something taboo or go dark places in order to explore it further - ...

    Mar 26, 2018
  • Poetry » General, General Re: ingress // erosion

    Reading your poems feels for all the world, like being present with my tongue out for the season's first snowflake -- or like finding a meteor dashing right as I ...

    Mar 10, 2018
  • Poetry » Romantic, General Re: we speak only through the zephyr

    Arcticus! This poem does for me what I believe it sets out to do: recalling the breezy love-letters, the would s/he, won't s/he, and ultimately for me it is about ...

    Mar 10, 2018
  • Poetry » Humor, Dramatic Re: The Show

    Hey Radrook! Overall I think the poem is adept with general wordsmithing and playing with the language of the piece, so I enjoyed this poem from a diction point of ...

    Dec 16, 2017
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Lyrical Re: the time i praised the mayans

    Casa, I really love the title of this one with the context of the poem itself. Whenever I think of Mayans - the images that they evoke - I think ...

    Dec 16, 2017
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: ​no matter how much the DHS workers begged and pleaded

    Casa! So right away, I really love the caution-tape intro. Immediately, I wanted to know why the speaker feels the need to shelter his heart, and I loved how it ...

    Dec 16, 2017
  • Poetry » Lyrical, Horror Re: I am the Butcher and the Bearer

    Ella, I like the concept of a butcher bearing bad news and pain itself referred to as a knife. I think the image of "pain as a knife" is not ...

    Dec 16, 2017
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Creases

    I loved this. There's this brilliant turn in the poem going from body and muscles and creases, and there's barely a transition. It is a sliver flick of a lightbulb, ...

    Oct 10, 2017


In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening