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Re: Speaking Of: El Faro Blanco (The White Lighthouse)
Chandni - It's a pleasant scene suffering from an overdose of purple imagery and an absense of direction. At the end, the reader says, "and ...?" re: "...beneath our melancholic ...
Nov 25, 2006 -
Re: Shotgun
Tropicana-- This is incoherent and (from what I could discern) meaningless junk. It wanders from a cup of coffee to what's on the radio without any recourse for either of ...
Nov 25, 2006 -
Re: Gone with the Wind
writingluver5 - Rework the conclusion (absent right now) and this will be vastly improved. While you're at it, take a careful look at S2 and compare it to the other ...
Nov 25, 2006 -
Re: Blue
moosiegirl - What was it you thought you had written that was remotely "poetic"? This is not poetry; it is a boring story about diversity and the need for cooperation ...
Nov 25, 2006 -
Re: Eulogy
TheEccentricScribe - This is a pretty standard, ineffective poor-poor-me rhapsody against an easy target. Poems like this always strike me as though the poet doesn't actually want improvement, but, ra
Nov 25, 2006 -
Re: Photo album
Hi sunshine girl - This is a collection of rambling generalities and forced, awkward rhythms, and it has virtually nothing to offer the sentient reader. It cannot be improved by ...
Nov 25, 2006 -
Re: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
backgroundbob-- I'm impressed. Overall this is fine work in concept and execution. But. I feel that you have many instances of clumsiness--for instance, the first line. The title already gives ...
Nov 22, 2006 -
Re: An Idle Night
Trident-- (A much deserved response.) This is largely incoherent. I will give some in-line comments for you to consider. A flake of impure white Leaps to my desktop. Dandruff? Crystal-less ...
Nov 21, 2006 -
Re: my snowflake
Hi, photoboothx
Nov 20, 2006 -
Re: This dream is tailor-made
Cameron-- This is nice. Some in-line suggestions: ˜This dream is tailor made, " you whisper beneath a brooding sky: weathered cornstalks set in contrast to the darker firmament. ˜Only for ...
Nov 19, 2006 -
Re: My Choice
Hi, photoboothx
Nov 19, 2006 -
Re: I Mock You!
Luxor-- Welcome to the YWS Poetry forums. You should be ashamed of posting this swill. Look around at what others have posted, and the type of feedback they have received, ...
Nov 19, 2006 -
Re: your kisses
lexy: I don't see any redeemable material here. You have some cliches (fading into his arms). You have an event that leads to name-calling. The one-word lines are sure-fire signs ...
Nov 18, 2006 -
Re: To a dear friend
ilubdraco-- When I got to the end of this piece and read, "...I hope your last few months are magical", the only thought that came to mind was, "Is she ...
Nov 18, 2006 -
Re: Popular
Hi Fantasyfreak14, What is this stuff? S1L2 is the end of this poem--the rest is filler. There's no doubt you have potential, but it is not enough to save this. ...
Nov 18, 2006
