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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
