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  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Yellow

    slippery roots, wood spongy and pelted with moss, teaparty I misread pelted the first time as the verb rather than the adjective, which led, let me tell you, to quite ...

    Oct 2, 2009
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: The Office Chair

    I really have nothing useful to say because god, I love this. I love the narrator, and everything that goes utterly unsaid, and the imagery which is outlined but not ...

    Oct 2, 2009
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Tender Mourning

    The grass leaks With emerald-green light Drop the with, and come up with a different word than emerald -- most grass isn't emerald green really. I do like the idea ...

    Oct 2, 2009
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Loss/ Grandmother

    When all of life is darkness, And I can't find a glimpse of light, When troubles seem unending, And hatred clouds my sight, Unoriginal, but very good rhythm, except for ...

    Oct 2, 2009
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Funky Rhyme Scheme?

    The cunning use of reverse psychology to lure in the reader is the best part of this, not gonna lie. You need to play around a little more with some ...

    Jul 8, 2009
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: At Rainbow's End...

    As a poem, it's not a bad poem; there are some surprisingly nice turns of phrase, and hints of deeper meanings, la dee da, perhaps not intentional but then reading ...

    Jun 10, 2009
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: In Fond Regret

    Memorize a box of pictures Polaroids, ill exposed Dated haircuts and specks of sunlight Captured in tender observation. I read the first three lines, pleased but not too impressed, and ...

    Jun 7, 2009
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: poppies -- an exitlude

    fuzzyhead – it looks like you just woke up, griping, stripping up through the layered slumber, exiting like a baby. This stanza. I adore it. I think I'd prefer bedhead ...

    May 12, 2009
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Southern Fire

    Thick ...sighs, So, I have to say, I do not understand the first line here. The ladled rust asphalt with sighs, specifically. As in the ladled rust (nom nom nom ...

    May 10, 2009
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Notes on a Plane Crash

    The idea of this is pretty brilliant, and there are some lovely, lovely lines. But I did find myself, at the end, wishing for more concrete imagery - something beyond ...

    May 5, 2009
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: n1

    That? Was brilliant . At this point I realize I'm just repeating everyone else, but seriously, this poem was a joy to read and, I'd guess, say, since I could ...

    Apr 22, 2009
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: What May Shimmer

    I enjoyed that a great deal. This day is gilt in silver, where once the light was gold, And all around me minute droplets hang upon the cold. Its shimmering ...

    Apr 21, 2009
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Diary of an Atheist

    Way to, um, tear down religion without giving any evidence for what you are, theoretically, advocating. The foundation for this poem is flawed. Do you mean it as a purely ...

    Apr 21, 2009
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Words

    Hm. When I was done reading this poem, I felt cheated. It was a perfectly good starting point, but the imagery was sparse, the slightly inverted common sayings weak; the ...

    Apr 21, 2009
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: .

    Hmm. I like your writing well enough, but I... kind of hate your narrator. I mean, not hate, of course, I don't hate children - who, me? *shifty eyes* - ...

    Apr 3, 2009


'They are afraid of nothing,' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they would brave Satan and all his legions.'
— Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights