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O.O Rather angry. This felt too much like a personal rant than poetry, and the imagery, while typically vibrant, was too scattered and haphazard for my tastes. I did, however, ...

I would keep it rated R, actually. Something so disturbing deserves the rating. I mean, the event was disturbing--the story was good. Maybe it's me being an overly emotional New ...

I agree with Euclidean. Allusions aren't used to say, "Hey! Look at me! I know what's going on!" They should be subtler. Give the reader some credit and make us ...

Touch-- This, bliss of tactile trust; I can see that with the comma after "this," you're trying to bring that word emphasis--the problem is, it's a very ambiguous word, and ...

At the risk of sounding repetitive--I agree. ^~ There's definitely a place in poetry for telling, but the trick is balancing it out with the showing. Your rhymes are easygoing ...

Euclidean's already covered everything I had to mention, so I'll leave it to a bit of well-deserved praise, which every poet thrives on. ^~ This is truly lovely, Skye. The ...

First of all--I agree with Colleen in that your linebreaks seem a little arbitrary, and at times do the flow no favors. Speak the lines aloud, paying special attention to ...

I agree with Bubbles. Lose the acrostic style and clean up the meaning, and this has potential. Not much more to add, really--though I'll admit, I rather liked the last ...

Thanks, Imp, Myth, and Twit! And Twit--there was no duel or prompt for this one; they're characters I'm developing for a novel, so I'm using freewrites to really sound out ...

Now, I'm all for breaking convention in poetry--as long as there's a good reason for it. If you can coherently explain why you chose not to capitalize any of the ...

Punctuation, boy! Where's the punctuation? That'll be the lesson for this critique then, I suppose. Why is punctuation in poetry so important? It tells you how to read it! And, ...

...Short with short lines would have been better. This is too long, and trips over itself the whole time. It has the potential to be amusing--but you drown it with ...

It was kind of amusing, and I actually enjoyed the rhyme--which, in this sort of lighthearted piece really can work quite nicely. Usually I'm very anti-rhyme, as it's easy for ...

O.o "Beneath eager shears lies a wolf" - ...I'm not sure what you're trying to say. "Eager shears?" Shears are scissors. The wolf under the scissors... well, it's an interesting ...

Hm. Well. You have some decent imagery. Unfortunately, most of it is far too overblown, and drowned with description. Yes, that's right--imagery does not necessarily require oodles and oodles of ...