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Re: Them
Hi, Sageleaf! Welcome to YWS. I really liked the movement of your poem, and how you ended each stanza with the same line, only slightly changed. I also noticed that ...
Jun 9, 2010 -
Re: Thoughts of Murder
Hi! You conveyed the anguish and fear of a person caught in a world they cannot escape very well. I like how you broke it up into readable stanzas, and ...
Jun 5, 2010 -
Re: The Awakening
Hi, there! I liked how you started this poem. The first stanza caught my attention, and I wanted to read more of the poem. The rest of the piece was ...
Jun 5, 2010 -
Re: Shining Sun
Hi! The language in this poem was very lyrical, and the quatrains are an excellent way of breaking your poem into stanzas. Your descriptions are excellent: I could picture the ...
Jun 5, 2010 -
Re: A Suicide Note
Wow. So poignant. I liked how you addressed abstract entities like the heart and mind, and I think that your language is very fitting for this poem. An excellent element ...
Jun 2, 2010 -
Re: Bye.
Wow. This is a fascinating piece, particularly because of its movement. I like how the stanzas flow together easily, and how you used symbols like ..., - , and ; ...
May 31, 2010 -
Re: Goodbye
There are some excellent elements about your poem. For one, there is a very definite emotion you are trying to target in your poem. The reader can sense that. I ...
May 31, 2010 -
Re: that rhyme that bound your feet to the wall.stuck vertically
Hi! Your poem is quite interesting. I read it several times, because the last line confounded me. However, I think I understand it now. Rhymes don’t bind They fly and ...
May 29, 2010 -
Re: Passion
This is very interesting. I like how there's a subtle slant rhyme going on: "you, true;" "front, want;" "colder, shoulder;" "that, back." Did you mean to split the last line ...
May 28, 2010 -
Re: The Other Woman
Wow. This was fantastic. I liked especially how potent her anger was, and how wounded she felt being second best to her husband. You definitely captured her emotions in a ...
May 25, 2010 -
Re: A Deluge of Rain
This is really lovely. The emotion is almost tangible, and I like how rhythmic the poem is. Your meaning is quite complex, and it's always more interesting to read poetry ...
May 21, 2010
