Incandescence

Sureal, Meth is short for methamphetamine. It is a barbiturate with a relatively short cycle through the human body--hence testing Haggard for traces of it would be pointless. Further, since ...

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Pimp-- This has lots of possibilities. I had a feeling of satisfaction after reading it the first time. As if I had been some place real, run up against some ...

Cal-- A very fine combination of voice and subject, well arranged on the page so that the reading and the action are self-reinforcing. I had a problem with the morass ...

27,500 (but I cheated)

jumping_jacks 142, You're joking, right? I'm sorry I can't be excited about this. There's nothing new here. You will appreciate that there are a million poems about exes around here, ...

Sara-- There is too much happening in too small a space. It has possibilities, but needs more than the Cliff Notes treatment. Either pare down your scope or make this ...

LetMeLive, There's not much to get excited about with this: it is a self-absorbed "woe is me"-type poem about how life has passed you by. This reader does not care ...

Cal-- This isn't working for me. I'll assume the narrator is a spectator/recorder of events. There's some minor interest in trying to determine which sequence applies to which outcome, but ...

carelessaussie13-- I think we can all identfiy the motivation for writing a poem like this, but the execution is terribly weak. Your poem is filled with the most common sort ...

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Miss*Mary, Welcome to the YWS Poetry Forum. Let me start by saying bubblewrapped hinted at but never directly stated the underlying pathology of this piece. Besides being cliche, telling instead ...

Sureal, Global cooling was an actual phenomena. This could all just as well be explained by the fact that perhaps the Sun has grown denser, thus causing a great gravitational ...

Grif, These are opinions the author cites. I direct your attention to the following quotes: Broder is convinced that the Europeans are not willing to oppose islamization. “The dominant ethos,” ...

Sureal, You did not read the article close enough. It is not a rant against Muslim immigrants--it's a thoughtful reflection on the lack of morale (due to wild immigration policies) ...