Incandescence

something euclidean - I think S1, S2, and S4 make a fine poem. The rest, imho, seems to be from a different poem altogether and has little, if any, relevance ...

xImperfectlyPerfectx -- This is like fishing with dynamite. It completely misses the manufactured breathless quality of intoxication, though I thought the first line was a step in the right direction ...

PenguinAttack-- This was on life support until I got to "pelting wetness of storming rain," at which point I pulled the plug. This is overmodified fluff with no redeeming poetic ...

AmberAngst. This is junk. It's a poorly conceived, ineptly executed stream of gibberish that resembles millions of other pieces by beginners who reach for sentiment and come up empty. Read ...

Cameron: Dropping the first two lines is not detrimental--do it. "Man's own attempted chronicling" is too boring for a poem so light. "own" is needlessly repetitive anyway. A fine piece ...

Sureal, With the first three lines, the reader will abandon hope of finding a poem beneath them. If someone hobbled up to me in a bar and repeated them, I'd ...

Elizabeth, This is fine as rogation, perhaps, though it fails at being anything more. You've done better. Best, Brad

Evangelina, Cut S2. I was not a fan of the mispunctuation at the beginning, i.e., "whispered winter deep / her roots planted...," which should have a comma at the end ...

Snoink-- The "C" part is the number of molecular compounds. That whole discourse on C-E just tells you whether the problem is underdetermined, overdetermined, or just right. Otherwise, I'm not ...

Snoinkums--- I'm going to assume you're working with a system of chemical reactions, instead of just one. But basically you do the same thing you do when you're given: 3x+4y=7z ...

Jenna, I'm more than willing. Best! Brad

Mad, What is this? Let's not kid ourselves here. Poetry is not a story with awkward linebreaks; at present, that's all I can manage through the rubble of this hopeless ...

-Save-Ferris-, Okay. And...? Best, Brad

hazel_eyes, Punctuating this (unless done with a shredder) is a waste of time. The solution: get a new sheet of paper. As opposed to weak descriptions of personality and vague ...

cymbeline_x, This poem's only accomplishment is its demonstration of your knowledge of the "Enter" key. The one-word lines neither invoke poetic reflection nor provoke a start-stop reaction that makes