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Re: 18
So, the poem feels vacant. I don't mean that in the kind of 'haha, your form mimics your content' or something like that, but like, it feels so empty and ...
Jul 5, 2011 -
Re: The Fisherman
Wow. What I want to say is wow. Like, I feel like this poem needs a lot of reworking, but what you've found is a lucky combination of words that ...
Jul 5, 2011 -
Re: Sparks and Rushes to the Head
I don't know how to start. I'll start by dismissing the third poem. I'm sure that it was a good exercise, but a lot of word play also relies on ...
Jul 5, 2011 -
Re: Untitled
Hello, rememberme! I know there's some kind of feeling behind these words. Even if they're not coming directly from you and this isn't your true experience, there's emotion coming from ...
Jul 3, 2011 -
Re: Forgetting Names
You have a lot of good reviews on this piece already, I think. I feel like, however, you can give us this story in a shorter space if you structured ...
Jun 28, 2011 -
Re: Solstice
Hello, hello! Here and hoping to help. On first read through: The movement is impenetrable in its regularity, yet it is not stiff. Nothing so natural could be stiff. Just ...
Apr 4, 2011 -
Re: Hold the line, another call is coming
So, I'm not going to reference the poem you're responding to in my critique, just because I don't feel I'm educated enough to at this point, and also because I ...
Apr 3, 2011 -
Re: rise over run
HELPPANTS. I saw this tree covered with ice bending from the pressure, bending, bending, bowed, and then! Released. But I felt like I skipped over these lines: to the fall ...
Feb 21, 2011 -
Re: Refining Fire: 10 short unrelated bits
I really like the rhymes that you have going some of them are just a little off kilter, which gives this collection (though unrelated), a lilting feel. I especially like ...
Dec 8, 2010 -
Re: demons (prose poem)
Well it LOOKS pretty in the attachment. I don't know, my friend. It doesn't speak. It tells me a lot of things and at the end it reverts to cheap ...
Oct 23, 2010 -
Re: Removed for Editing
Hey, Flumicakes. This was a nice piece, but not very memorable. It seemed to arrive and pass without leaving a mark, but I feel like it reached out at the ...
Oct 13, 2010 -
Re: All I'm Asking For
Hello! Congratulations on your first poem, my friend. Let me give you a few pointers, though. We all start with poetry like this. I had a notebook full of it ...
Sep 29, 2010 -
Re: My Worst Memory
Hello, 300! Welcome to YWS. Be sure to get out there and review! Well, let's take a look at your story. Ignoring grammar or style, the plot seems to be ...
Sep 29, 2010 -
Re: Saving Matty [1]
Hello, Classy. After reading this through once, this is what I want: I want to see the relationship (that doesn't mean romantic relationship) between Matty and Kisa more defined. They've ...
Sep 29, 2010 -
Re: Camellia
I enjoy the second stanza, but nothing in the first. 'sex organ blossoms' is odd, not elegant, though it should be. Petals can stretch and keep with your seductive theme, ...
Sep 29, 2010
