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Re: Ekphrastic poem
The Sailor's Wife inspired by Salvador Dali's "Figure at a Window" He has a window with no glass, a ceiling with no beams, a sky made out of canvas. Her ...
Apr 4, 2007 -
Re: Broken Reflection
If in the subject description you meant "cliche", then yes, this is. It babbles cliches. I agree with Mad on the rhyming; couplets have a tendency to sound very childish ...
Apr 4, 2007 -
Re: and i move through this masquerade
This was an enjoyable read. Most of it flowed very nicely and I liked the feeling that came with it. That said, there are very very few good Cummings imitations ...
Apr 3, 2007 -
Re: Narrow Minded
The brain is not a muscle...right? Anyway, you should really take a closer look at the rhyme scheme here. Most rhyming poems keep it fairly constant, and this has jumped ...
Apr 3, 2007 -
Re: Raising children
Well, as Shaf said, it is important to teach young children how to behave and to give them responsibilities, but it's also important to give them room as they get ...
Apr 3, 2007 -
Re: Porn Used to help get Panda jiggy
I think the zookeepers might just be using it as an excuse to watch porn. XD
Mar 29, 2007 -
Re: Nabokov’s “Lolita”
I'm ba-ack! *wide grin* And now I shall finish my critique. *dons serious glasses* Regarding xanthan gum's comment: I think that the dramatics really add to the charm of this ...
Mar 29, 2007 -
Re: Nabokov’s “Lolita”
Well, I've never read Lolita, so I suppose I can't get the full force of this poem. I love the language, though; way to stay consistent throughout. No suggestions on ...
Mar 28, 2007 -
Re: 'We Want This Polar Bear Dead' Say Animal Rights Lobby
In the wild, a cub would die if its mother abandoned it. A tragedy to young animal lovers everywhere, but hey, it's life. It's nature. A zoo, however, is hardly ...
Mar 25, 2007 -
Re: 1,2
As others have said, this isn't much of a serious poem. This is like a rip-off of third grade humor. If you're concerned about getting critiques, you might try posting ...
Mar 25, 2007 -
Re: Les Eurockeennes de Belfort; or: The Five Senses
As Amelia said, this poem could definitely do with some better structure. Line breaks and stanzas are as much a part of poetry as the words themselves; have you chosen ...
Mar 25, 2007 -
Re: Corrupt a Wish
Granted, but now she's really boring. I wish the AP World History test was easy.
Mar 22, 2007 -
Re: Nameless Poem
This piece, though it has a pleasant idea behind it, was not carried out well. The imagery is really cliche, and that's what brings this poem down. Why does it ...
Mar 22, 2007 -
Re: my friend is addicted
It could be a prose-poem...but I doubt it. This sounds more like a journal entry than anything.
Mar 22, 2007 -
Re: we were buried at the back of our church graveyard.
I think perhaps the "we're not immortal" lesson was a little too obvious. Here I've crossed out lines you could take out: we were buried at the back of our ...
Mar 22, 2007
