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Re: Kolkata
I disagree. The presentation wasn't bad. The rhyme was fine. It was subtle. It doesn't have to be "mindblowing." The "O" at the beginning of each stanza was also fine ...
Feb 20, 2007 -
Re: Corrupt a Wish
Granted, but it does itself poorly. Ha, that sounds awfully naughty. Sorry, I have a dirty mind. I blame my friends. I wish we weren't out of ice cream.
Feb 20, 2007 -
Re: Rakanja's Story
Very interesting. I liked the dialog you put in. It could use some spelling edits but otherwise I found this very affective. Good job. This poem has spelling errors? What? ...
Feb 20, 2007 -
Re: Put Me In Your Holy War
I actually wasn't bothered by the tenses. I thought that the use of both future tense and present tense was very effective. (Or, perhaps I've just been doing too much ...
Feb 20, 2007 -
Re: The Underside of his Napkin
Although slitting one's wrists is cliche, I felt that you did a great job with it here. The speaker isn't talking about slitting-wrists-and-wallowing-in-depression like most wrist-slitting poems do. I
Feb 20, 2007 -
Re: The Devil's Eyes
There's a great quote that says "Einstein would turn over in his grave; not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded!" That was the inspiration, pretty much. And ...
Feb 20, 2007 -
Re: Rakanja's Story
It wasn't so much about racism as about different-ism, no? This sounded a little too much like Stone Soup. As in, a little too obvious about the message. I thought ...
Feb 20, 2007 -
Re: Alternate Reality
I also agree that the idea wasn't overly original, but it was well-expressed. Plus it is ridiculously hard nowadays to do something completely original as pretty much everything has been ...
Feb 20, 2007 -
Re: Sitting/Beauty
I do like the new words. Yeah, if it needs explaining...well, explain it, actually, I'm curious. I do get a feeling out of this, but it's a little fuzzy. I ...
Feb 19, 2007 -
Re: Life by Haiku
I think I might die having never been able to write out myself.
Feb 19, 2007 -
Re: Corrupt a Wish
Granted, but your homework happened to be part of the clutter, and now it's gone and you have to explain to your teacher that you wished across the internet that ...
Feb 19, 2007 -
Re: just something i wrote
Well, really, if you put stuff up here, you're asking for criticism. People are only trying to help you improve your work. Poetry can be very therapeutic in terms of ...
Feb 19, 2007 -
Re: Sitting/Beauty
I haven't seen a cinquain in years! I used to be obsessed with these when I was about eight. I made a poster teaching my parents how to write one. ...
Feb 19, 2007 -
Re: Slipping
blonde is right in that poetry is a good way to express yourself and get feelings down on paper, but was this successful for an audience? As Clau said, the ...
Feb 19, 2007 -
Re: Bottled Agitation
Agitation And Aggravation Why are they all capped? It made me think of AAA, which made me think of old people. After that, I didn't think much of anything, except ...
Feb 19, 2007
