Incandescence

Misty-- This would go to explaining why I never comment on grammar--I don't think it's a necessary component of poetic communication, except as a poet might will it so. re: ...

In Neruda's 1971 Nobel lecture, he said the following: ...if we succeed in creating the fetish of the incomprehensible (or the fetish of that which is comprehensible only to a ...

In Neruda's 1971 Nobel lecture, he said the following: ...if we succeed in creating the fetish of the incomprehensible (or the fetish of that which is comprehensible only to a ...

crewgurl93 Unlike Claudette, I don't care about you. What I do care about is the Narrator, who presents a story as compelling as a C-SPAN Special. Best, Brad

apeva, There's so much debris cluttering the way here I wonder what conclusion I reached upon finishing the poem up--ah! that's right, your poem told me what conclusion I should ...

_frenchilla_ Not much to get excited about. The reader recognizes the situation but is given nothing in the way of a POV or insight that attempts to push beyond simple ...

GingerLizzy, Ruminant jokes aside, this is not what I'd call poetry. It hammers home--what, exactly? That a girl still thinks of "him"? What's new or exciting about that? Take care, ...

Reyu, Beside the trite subject matter, it seems like you have put forth more effort in defending this trash than you did actually writing it. See the problem? The ice ...

evangelina, The problem lies in that fact that you use sweeping judgments of whole classes of people and in the end it's just a pile of banal rubbish. That you ...

Amelia - Consider: Not even the lamp shuffling light from above could penetrate the darkness of our palms. Skip the change and close the frame: no longer do your feet ...

biancarayne, This will surely get you an A in your history or english class when discussing German literature. For my buck though, I can take any set of five lines ...

iQuippie-- Everything here is pretty standard descriptions of winter time. If you want to discuss seasonal emotions, find a more interesting set of statements than "snow fell down upon our ...

Amelia, See if the ameliorated punctuation is, in fact, an amelioration. Thanks for taking the time to read, Brad

write_ma_hustle, I find this a very heavy meal to chew through. Lacking all human interest. What is it about? The monotony of making bad decision? What is of concern here ...

melodicatastrophe, If this were altered, it could be a song. As a song, it might stand just fine. However, as a poem, it suffers reckless navel-gazing and leaves me wondering, ...