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  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The Girl Who Never Was.

    Hi SakuraFallsSweetly, This is a blind half-dead salmon traveling through a one-dimensional world. Yes, your poem is on a piece of paper and flows one way but you seem to ...

    May 25, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: When the Sun Goes Walking

    Hi Evi, First of all, the title can be absorbed into the first line of the poem or vice versa. You don't need to repeat. What did you do, pull ...

    Apr 24, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: absolution

    Hi emoinpink, This has been gathering dust for three months and I'm still not sure what to do with it Keeping it on its present path of cryogenic sleep seems ...

    Apr 18, 2011
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: No Sympathy.

    Hi HessicaJolt, The title pretty much sums up an appropriate response. Your poem seems to be attempting to grow images haphazardly in a dark lab and then ripping them out ...

    Apr 18, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Tomorrow.

    Hi jasminebells, Let's be honest; this barely deserves half a "like", and that's a generous estimate. Your entire poem can be summed up in three lines: A man was to ...

    Mar 3, 2011
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: I'm Sorry

    Hi PoeticGlow, I've come to two conclusions. The first is that you may have confused the poetry section with the nonfiction prose forums. The second is that you actually think ...

    Mar 3, 2011
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Nothing's gonna be okay

    Hi Demoness, Well, the good news is that this poem has so many problems that the reader's total distaste leads him to overlook many of them in favor of identifying ...

    Mar 3, 2011
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Ephemeral Girl

    Hi Persephoneia, Nice try being cutsey, but all it serves to do is warm up this poem to the point that it melts. Ever taken liquified sugar and just drank ...

    Jan 23, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Feelings

    Hi silentriot, So I can feel feelings, huh? Guess that about sums up the intellectual prowess of this piece. You've clearly attempted to grasp everything ad nothing here, stuffing this ...

    Jan 21, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Painful Admittance

    Hi BenFranks, Alright, here's a rundown of what made me really cringe throughout this piece. Line format. Yes, it may seem like a minor issue. However, when this demon lurks ...

    Jan 20, 2011
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Face the Facts

    TmB317, Yeah, why not just tack on "The sky's the limit!" onto the end of this poem. Maybe even "Follow your dreams!", that's a good one. This entire piece wept ...

    Jan 19, 2011
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The Moon

    Hi ehte92, This thing is dead. Here's your first problem: From the get-go, the reader immediately understands that "it" is supposed to be a metaphor for some hazy abstract half ...

    Jan 19, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: this is not a poem about love

    Hi Jagged, This is good. This is... very good. You managed to avoid all of the pitfalls of using gimmicks - the lack of consistent punctuation and capitalization, for example, ...

    Dec 6, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: ...

    Hi blackbird12, One of the primary - and glaring - missteps in this poem is that it follows such a predictable formula throughout. "A goes to B". "The chimes are ...

    Dec 6, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Eventually

    Hi wewinwelose, Yeah, no. I don't know if you are deliberately channeling Disney or if you just don't know what a cliche is, but phrases like this: I want to ...

    Dec 6, 2010


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