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Re: I Am The Mediterranean Sea
TheBluePoet, This starts out flat with the first line being demonstratively self-referential and never gaining momentum henceforth. A better medium for this might be a fiction narrative where you can ...
Oct 22, 2007 -
Re: Wide Awake in a Dream
Sureal, Oh my goodness, no. 1. An overabundance of first-person references, much in the form of a diary entry. 2. Arbitrary linebreaks. 3. Over-modified imagery notable only for its length. ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: The Coward
Lindsaroo. This is a tired narrative (e.g. The Lovely Bones ) rehashed in tired verse. Please make an effort to write from yourself, not from fictionalized/serialized accounts of other people. ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: The Enemies of Heroes
mariahneu-- The problem isn't isolating your readers. The problem is making them want to read what you've written, which isn't happening here. My advice is to stop reaching out to ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: 'The Moons Lament'
Tess-- After the first three strophes, the 'me' is overwhelming. Overwhelmingly bad. The reason this doesn't get off the ground is perhaps because it remains idly cycling from one abstraction ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: The Hubris Noose
elephantwalrus: What was lost - About five minutes reading and thinking about this poem What was gained - Nothing This attempt to pack a moral lesson into 14 lines never ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: Enjoy
Alva-- I'm sorry, but this is indistinguishable from the steaming mound of inspirational poetry found far and wide across the internet. Consider dropping the clichés, rhymes, and the didactic instruc
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: * bubble-gum flavored medicine
melodicatastrophe, "living in the past, building homes inside our memories eating comfort food and picturing the days to come. because we're all made of bubble-gum flavored medicine of brightly-lit cl
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: In His Arms
Insomniac, This is not a poem. What you have posted here are best described as 'lyrics', and, for future reference, should be posted there. As far as the quality of ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: In Darkest Night
Rjjr_vectra, This is a tortured meandering on the way to a questionable point (was there a point?). There are all sorts of problems here, beginning with a first line that ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: Smoke
Colleen-- Yuck. This is a collection of tired platitudes about dancing and love. It's constructed with weighted linebreaks that are at odds with the sentimental theme you're pursuing. It is ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: You know you're a poet when...
...you do it between the lines. ...sonics do not refer to a blue hedgehog. ...you agonize over when to hit the 'Enter' key. ...you cringe when you listen to the ...
Oct 16, 2007 -
Re: At What Age Did You Begin Reading?
I remember we all had to read Dr. Seuss books when I was two at this private school I went to, but the first book I really "remember" reading is ...
Oct 15, 2007 -
Re: Potato in the Orchard - 2,2,2,2 /P
/removed.
Oct 15, 2007 -
Re: Potato in the Orchard - Chapter 3 /P
**Completed**
Oct 14, 2007
