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Re: Letters of the Distressed
Hey BBB! (I mean, Jared.) Okay. So I liked this. I agree with basically everyone above me. The style is very interesting, I was glued. It's also hard to critique ...
Sep 17, 2008 -
Re: home is where the heart is
I think this is a good first poem. My first poem was horrible. But I'm here to help you fix yours! The actual title "Home is where the heart is" ...
Sep 14, 2008 -
Re: Apathy
Mmm. I thought this had great potential. I liked the repetition of the last line of the poem in the first stanza. I thought it was an interesting poem, the ...
Sep 6, 2008 -
Re: Randi
This definitely is sad. I think it has great tragic potential. However, you have a few mistakes here and there that really ruined the atmosphere of the poem for me. ...
Aug 31, 2008 -
Re: The Boy Who Lived
Sampoop! Okay. I'll be throatcutting honest with ya. I did not like this. It's not that it's bad or anything, because, apparently, everyone else thinks it was terrific. On the ...
Aug 28, 2008 -
Re: THE BED.
Icaruss, this was really, really sharp and sly, very witty. Dark. Unlike some other people, I found the connection to the title fairly obvious by the third sentence. "She is ...
Aug 27, 2008 -
Re: Fear
Snoink basically said it. Overall, this had a great, though a big overdone, idea, which you seemed to handle pretty well. Maybe add a little more metaphores, a little more ...
Aug 25, 2008 -
Re: The State of Massachussetts
I thought this was not bad for a first time. It seemed like a word for word duplicate of The Departed, but we could fix that. The structure was off-key, ...
Aug 25, 2008 -
Re: Never Had A Chance
Gackkkkk.... INFODUMP! Sorry. Just had to blurt it out. Well, I have to disagree with Dear Mr. Bear on a few things here. Don't get offended though: my critique WILL ...
Aug 20, 2008 -
Re: Snowfall in Israel
I'm going to try to ignore some grammer mistakes... but a few might seep into here. "Have you ever heard what a Jewish synagogue sounds like when a bomb takes ...
Aug 20, 2008 -
Re: Der Liederbuch
This is going to be so hard for me to critique. One, because I like it for what it is: a simple, lyrical interpretation of God. (Yes, I read your ...
Aug 18, 2008 -
Re: Thanatos
ASTOUNDING BEGINNING, holy mother. I adore the realism in this story--just that he was swirling into the darkness or whatever, that was genius. This opening is mesmerizing and kept me ...
Aug 17, 2008 -
Re: the sounds of my summer.
This poem was confusing and disjointed. It was also interesting, fresh, and very rhythmic. I feel as if it could use a lot more extra help though, but I personally ...
Aug 13, 2008 -
Re: London Dreams
So... I liked the first stanza. Not so much the second. The second felt very flimsy and somewhat cliche. I'm trying to find example lines from it, but I realized ...
Aug 2, 2008 -
Re: Pain
First of all, WELCOME TO YWS! Second of all: I didn't like it. Actually, I hated it. But don't take it to heart too much--there are way too many first-time ...
Jul 28, 2008
