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Re: The blue that colors heaven....
Hi 200397, Not a very good piece. The worst parts of this poem - and be assured that there are many - are the thoughtless spaces put in between stanzas ...
Feb 2, 2010 -
Re: Romanov
Then don't respond. ------------ Hi Kylan, What's with you not incorporating and building upon one theme? Yes, Russian Revolution, circa 1917, okay. Oh, and the illustration of the red Communist ...
Feb 1, 2010 -
Re: Dancers in the Darkness
Hi Jennafina, The dancer stumbles out the back door and into the alleyway. He leans against it, and as it closes the sounds of music and voices backstage die away. ...
Feb 1, 2010 -
Re: Determined: The Story of a Beautiful Jew. Chapter Four.
Hi Beautiful Doom, Imagery is your main problem. Storyline and plot is also skewed but the magnitude of the lack of description, and what I call pseudo-description, overshadows all other ...
Jan 29, 2010 -
Re: How it Feels to Drown
Hi Kamas, The first explosive impact sets off a ricochet of charges through willowy tissues, taunt with spiteful, precise needles threading themselves from the cusps to the core, that shudders ...
Jan 28, 2010 -
Re: Ugly melodies/Silent songs
Hi AquaMarine, Go ahead, rip it to shreds. I'll be happy to slink back to Other Fiction. Yeah, mos def, girl. Degrade yourself before the poem starts! That's the way ...
Jan 28, 2010 -
Re: Black Ink [edit]
Hi OverEasy, Ridiculous. I don't care if this was a true story or not or whatever. The non-fiction piece is incredibly naive and uninteresting and goes downhill from the first ...
Jan 9, 2010 -
Re: Carnival Rides
Hi Audy, R oun d and r oun d, Why the odd italicizing? The only reason I can possibly think of is that perhaps it is intended to demonstrate a ...
Jan 7, 2010 -
Re: Watercolour Sunrise
Hi Kamas, I am inundated with the seasonal enemy Bacteria and thinking while fighting a war is not a thing anybody is able to do, least of all the politicians ...
Jan 6, 2010 -
Re: someday, someone, somewhere, somehow, sometime, will know
Hi Zenjoy, I'm trying to decide whether this is brilliant or terrible. Currently, it's a mix of both and while it smells like fresh wood and scents of silk, it ...
Jan 5, 2010 -
Re: To Lie:
Hi Kyllorac, A quick little poem prompted by a random word generator since I haven't written any poetry in a while. And this product is exactly the reason why writing ...
Jan 2, 2010 -
Re: 'Out'side Boundry Lines
Hi Jon, Well, this poem was dead on arrival and barely sputtered out something coherent in the last stanza before falling back to its endless sleep. ~ It's like running ...
Dec 31, 2009 -
Re: On hardwood floors.
Hi silented1, First point of order is to take out all of those ellipses. If you want a pause - or really any kind of deviation from standard reading - ...
Dec 29, 2009 -
Re: ode to an alienated lover
Hi iQuippie, This piece suffers from a sliding hill upon which it clings desperately with dirty nails, trying to ascend liquid mud that once used to make up the composition ...
Dec 29, 2009 -
Re: We'll Never Know
Hi wonderingkate, Everything about this reeks of cliche and Valley-Girl-private-notebook fantasy. "I'm sorry that I wasn't good enough"? How many times has the reader heard that before? A hundred? A ...
Dec 29, 2009
