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  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Dramatic Poetry 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
  • Lounge, The 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
  • Official Polls 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
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Potato in the Orchard - 2,2,2,2 /P

    /removed.

    Oct 15, 2007
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Potato in the Orchard - Chapter 3 /P

    **Completed**

    Oct 14, 2007


Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
— Sigmund Freud