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Thanks for the quick responses! Oh, parsley. :lol: I wasn't exactly referring to so-called nonsense poems when talking about poems with no apparent meaning. Also, there are few things I ...

My poetry is usually impromptu. I'm usually doing something like attempting to garden or watching TV or writing an essay when I come up with something I find poetic. Other ...

Until the age of ten, I lived in a rural area. The school wasn't the best. I didn't live on some surburban street where I could ride my bike or ...

People are often impressed too easily because they haven't read enough of the good stuff. Others can't give critiques because they don't know how to, have never seen good critiques, ...

This is a great piece, but I felt as though the last two stanzas, everything after "'We matter'" just didn't go with the rest. The tone of the first two ...

I agree with Chibi...this piece does have some things that are a little hard to interpret. I especially had a problem with getting the grandfather-father characters straight. The different places/time

This poem didn't create anything new or interesting. It's a bunch of over-used ideas and some general, cliched statements. Try to say something that hasn't been said before, and clarify ...

The subject of this post was "depressing", but it's not making me depressed. The narrator died? Well, make me care. I didn't become attached to this story enough to care. ...

"Let me in," the Teacher said, and knocked upon the door. The Man jumped quickly out of bed and stomped across the floor. The Teacher held his ink and pen, ...

This is descriptive. It's too descriptive. It's choking me. Perhaps...give this piece more of a meaning? At the moment, it seems to exist only to describe and say "Oh, look ...

Ooh, I like this poem. I'm not completely sure what it means, but it's cool. It seems like it can barely get away with all these allusions, but barely-getting-away in ...

In some of the stanzas, you maintain this A-B-A-C-A rhyme scheme. It's fine in the first stanza. Second stanza...well, blob makes it seem silly. In the third stanza, it doesn't ...

This was a poem that made me happy. It was cute. It was descriptive and well-constructed...being only a little over five feet, this is something I've often experienced. The whole ...

As with your last chapter, this has a lot of simple typos that are easily fixed. Just read through this carefully before you post it and all. I'm not going ...

*hugs this poem, then steps away, terrified that her hug has crushed its fragile amazingness* Obviously, I like your poem. I can totally see this being read at some dark, ...