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Re: Recycling metaphors and filling garbage bags with cliches
It's a lighthouse isn't it? Before I read this, it looked like some kind of tower or skyscraper, midway I thought for sure a clock tower, by the end a ...
Oct 3, 2016 -
Re: Chasing butterflies
Yoda! I love the command of your rhythmns and sounds, especially with the quickening haste the poem seems to draw me along, almost dancing, almost fluttering, the shifts in tempo ...
Sep 23, 2016 -
Re: jest kidding.
Candy! I'm going to get technical to see if that helps any with improvements, but feel free to chat this one up if there was a particular spot I overlooked! ...
Sep 21, 2016 -
Re: Behold Submission
Bloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I am hyper c: Throughout the review, I'm going to call your odd-numbered stanzas "odd-stanzas" and your even-numbered stanzas "even-stanzas" :) I am going to ech
Sep 10, 2016 -
Re: The hand that first held mine
Empires! So, there is definitely a sweet and tender care in the tone of the poem that the speaker feels for his love, and I appreciate that. We spend a ...
Sep 10, 2016 -
Re: Among Dying Stars (Part 1)
Wizard, Take anything I say with a grain of salt - some things may be a factor of personal preferences. For example - I think you can go without the ...
Sep 10, 2016 -
Re: Pyromaniac in Silent Streets
Hey Tigerlily, As a piece that touches upon the subject of suicide, I like the narrator's point of view in trying to empathize with the unanswered questions floating up in ...
Sep 1, 2016 -
Re: The Last Meal
Nite, First stanza is not needed at all. I think the two words "It ended" tells us everything the first stanza illustrated in just few words. Plus, beginning with "it ...
Aug 14, 2016 -
Re: July
Niteowl, I really love the title selection for this, framed in this way I feel it does so much in so little calling forth images of summer, of fireworks, of ...
Aug 14, 2016 -
Re: Woes of the Bladder
So. A poem about pee. I am going to tell you why this works for me. I think that in poetry, like all art forms, whether it be films, performance ...
Aug 10, 2016 -
Re: bottom of the sea
I really love the tenderness of the first stanza outside of the prompt. The cupped shell to the ear is a such a cool connection to make. It makes your ...
Aug 10, 2016 -
Re: highway headlights
spectator, This is really quite a beautiful piece, easily my favorite that I've read this week. The way it shows and aches and longs and pulls you right into the ...
Aug 9, 2016 -
Re: That's What Friends Do
Justperks, This piece really speaks from the heart which I appreciate. My favorite parts were the "I'm your steady hands" I think those lines hit us with a finality too, ...
Aug 9, 2016 -
Re: Sea and Waves
Manasa, Welcome to YWS :) I like how this poem invites you in at the very start with an image and the motion of the wind and waves. The sea ...
Aug 9, 2016 -
Re: fat cows moo (an eating disorder ditty)
Strange, There's so much in here~ I like the fat legs on the cow. The parenthetical (success) / (depression) kind of sunk down there... at the bottom... like little weights! ...
Aug 9, 2016
