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That would depend on the style and individual work.

I happen to know exactly where you're coming from, but even so, I can rate this poem as a well constructed piece of free verse rich with evocative detail and ...

This reminds me of a lot of the Slam stuff I've read/heard over the years. A lot of Slam is rant--and this is a rant. And maybe that's all slam ...

Re: Kamas While I appreciate a negative review for its critical perspective, I can't admit that I took anything really constructive from your comment. I'm taken by a general sense ...

That's a rather moribund depiction of art, and an interesting one. I have often thought of artistic creation as a sort of Gnostic thing--the radical introduction of a thing half-you, ...

We met at night, back-alleys black with the scent of heady rue, my eyes attuned to ruby glints in the timid stare of death. Behind a neon sun I found, ...

The narrator of the poem is drinking to the "love."

I would like a better understanding of who the speaker is. You say that they are immortal. As Immortal is the title, I'm assuming that immortality is a primary center ...

This is pretty bloody great. Powerful, sensual imagery and a good scattering of some of the more obscure vocab (churlish). I have no modification to suggest other than a passing ...

Thank you all, past and future, for your reviews. This poem is the first brand new poem I've posted here, so it's also my first sample of constructive potential on ...

The poem has nothing whatsoever to do with those things that you mentioned, which leaves me the sad honor of stating that you are a complete literary hack who has ...

A serious thing, but a soft thing-- a maxim, a virtue of time and our thousand laughing, lazing hammer strokes upon the deepest steel, which bends to the water of ...

Well written, with good imagery and great creepy effect. Darkly sexy, even--if you're into that sort of thing. As for me, I just enjoyed the grim flirtation of the thing--very ...

I think that the sort of fragmented style with which you present these stanzas nicely figures the core of the poem. I quite like its theme in how it reveals ...

Re: perdido The cups are empty because the far-way love has been drunk to.